{"id":4625,"date":"2012-12-15T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2012-12-15T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T14:30:43","slug":"total-sensory-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/2012\/12\/total-sensory-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Sensory Overload!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon I’ll be starting in the repair of the Donovan aluminum race bonnets, and so I needed to stock up on aluminum sheet to fabricate the panels that cannot be reshaped.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my local supplier does not carry the soft aluminum that I need for this work, so I had to head up to the “mother ship” of the Fazio’s Industrial Supply outfit – I usually shop at their Delaware branch.\u00a0 I had never been up to their big store in Glassboro, NJ before…<\/p>\n

So my machinist and I made a day trip out of it – we had both been talking about going up there for a while now.\u00a0 We also decided to swing by a used machinery dealer – Cook Machinery – while we were up there.<\/p>\n

Now…\u00a0 Sometimes when E-Type owners come by to visit the shop, they get kind of “freaked out”, and it’s hard to carry on a conversation with them.\u00a0 There are about 8-10 shells and\/or complete cars here at any given time, and the attic above the new shop is bursting at the seams with E-Type parts, so their brain just kind of “locks up” into what I call “Total Sensory Overload.”<\/p>\n

Well, that’s what happened to me yesterday.\u00a0 There was so much cool stuff in these places that I didn’t even now how to absorb it all!\u00a0 I did managed to buy my aluminum sheets, plus a pair of gloves and two spring clips – that was all my brain could handle for one trip!\u00a0 But now that I know what’s up there, I’ll be making sevearl trips ion the future – I can see that already!<\/p>\n

This is supposed to be a blog about E-Types, so I’m just going to throw the photos up here without captions for your enjoyment.\u00a0 Happy Holidays! – Chuck<\/p>\n