I just spoke to OnSail. He's stuck in Chicago at the airport, unable to get to his family and unable to get back to Phoenix, due to weather screwing up the entire country's air travel system.

He would like to reschedule the welding event for next weekend. Will this potentially work for you, Toasty? Or are you going to be busy at WrenchWench's?

Don't forget the regularly scheduled event on Sunday the 21st! Can't be missing that...

John B.

Done! Pictures below.

Lessons learned:

1) Paint sliders more than half a day before they are to be put on. The top coat was nowhere near cured and a lot of the paint came off during installation.

2) Don't paint where your kindly welder dude will be welding things together. Toasty spent a lot of time grinding my paint right back off to get back to the bare metal where the legs attached to the sliders themselves.

3) Don't forget to bring your own welding helmet. Toasty had all kinds of fun with OnSail's equipment. And I think he forgot a couple of other things, too. This slowed things down.

4) Plan for puh-lenty of time to get these on right. It took most of a day to get this all finished. OnSail's neighbor let Toasty use the metal chop saw, which was downright nice of him. I broke out my car wax and had way more than enough time to get most all of the truck waxed during the day, in between all my breaks.

5) XM channel 44 is just like a mix tape I would make. It's too cool that OnSail had that on while we were there.

6) Epoxy garage floor coatings are cool in so many ways.

7) As usual, I'm forgetting all kinds of stuff. Thanks, thanks, thanks to OnSail for all the tools, equipment, time and effort he lended to the project. It will not be forgotten. Thanks to Toasty for the skill, time and effort. Thanks to WrenchWench for the foot power and willingness to just jump in on things. And thanks to Ryany for stopping by and giving us a break.

Here's the "candy':














Tomorrow, they will be tested. More reviewing to follow.

John B.

They look great John. Definitely on my short list of things to do. I'll have to find some help though as I can't weld to save my life so that and free time in general are the holdups for now. I hope you get some good use out of them in the morning too! I really wish I could be running it too, but being as I am typing this at 1:30 in the morning and meeting time is 7am about 30 minutes from my house, I don't think it wise at all. I'll just look around for the next opportunity....

They look awesome John!! Hope you're having fun out there right now..

Nice! YOu guys don't F around. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

Happy to be able to help!
Any time

Damn straight!

These things punished the rocks. Period. If you need sliders...buy these.

OnSail, you make the call, I will answer the call.

John B.

Got the truck all washed up again today, and I can see what these sliders are made of.

They are made of very tough (very) steel. There was a point on the Crown King trail where is was easier than anything else to steer into a rock and gun it a bit to pivot around the rock toward the driver's side. I inspected the slider today, and the metal is even smooth to the touch, like it hurt the rock more than anything.

There isn't a single dent or ding in these things, and they took a couple of hits. Great product, even greater installation by Toasty.

Bring it on!

John B.