Activities, Travel, Vacations, Health, Home, Property, Safety, Miscellaneous

Acme Catapult is for sale!

July 19, 2013 kleucht Leave a comment

Are you or someone you know looking for a fun hobby for yourself and a few buddies?

Acme Catapult is officially for sale!

After 18 years of catapulting adventures, Bob and Doug have decided to retire from chuckin. The ACME Catapult, Bambulance, and all equipment and spare parts are for sale. It was a tough year long decision, but its time to let fresh blood carry on and even set new records.

Please note: this is an extreme hobby, but one that can pay for itself if you promote the machine and are willing to travel a little. They have done many “For Hire” events in addition to several TV appearances. What sets this machine apart is its awesome strength. It can easily hurl objects up to 200 pounds and can set, fire and reset every 15 minutes all day long.

They are selling the entire package; all spare parts, including over 80 springs, two throwing arms, two complete hydraulic power units, hyd. hoses, extra cables, numerous bags and slings, ladders, tool boxes, and tools, etc.

Please call Bob 309-202-0676 or Doug 309-712-2278 for more information.

http://www.acmecatapult.com/

[The ACME Catapult is the tandem axle monster pumpkin catapult machine that was seen on national television throwing lawn equipment high into the air on ABC’s “My Kind of Town” and also hurling large appliances on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”. You may have also seen it tossing pumpkins on the TLC Special “Punkin Chunkin”, which was filmed at the 2002 World Championship Punkin Chunkin competition in Delaware. The ACME Catapult team started in 1996 with a much smaller catapult designed to throw pumpkins at a local Pumpkin Festival Contest. Since then the catapult has grown into a tandem axle monster capable of hurling refrigerators and lawn tractors high into the air, or throwing a ten-pound pumpkin 2000 feet!]

Thanks,

Kurt

Health, Home, Property, Safety, Miscellaneous

Chain swing installed into tree limb

July 7, 2013 kleucht Leave a comment

A while back I installed a standard hanging chain swing from a nice big limb in the oak tree in my front yard. I found these nice heavy duty swiveling swing hangers at WalMart. They just screw right into the tree limb or into a wooden swing set.

My problem became how do I close the loop on this swing hanger after I have inserted the chain from the swing? I suppose I could just keep the loop open, but that would risk kids flying off and hurting themselves while swinging. Probably not too likely, but still a risk. The solution was sitting on my drill press in my shop. It’s my handy dandy portable drill press vice.

To get leverage and close the small portable vice onto the hanger’s loop, I used a piece of pipe.

Perfect!

Activities, Travel, Vacations, Miscellaneous

For Sale: 2 very nice nearly brand new full wetsuits

July 7, 2013 kleucht Leave a comment

We have two very nice long wetsuits for sale. They are both very close to brand new. Both have been worn SCUBA diving only a couple of times and both have been carefully stored indoors for a number of years.

Click on any photo to see that photo in full size.

The IST Proline wetsuit is a size small. It is black with blue accents. It is a very nice quality and very nice looking wetsuit. It is neoprine and has really nice rubber kneepads built in. The tag does not say, but it feels close to the same or maybe just a bit thinner than the other wetsuit below, which says it is 3.0 mm on the tag. You can see in the photos that there is no wear on it at all. I will sell this nearly new wetsuit for $100 which is quite a discount from the original price.

The second wetsuit is a size 10-12. It is very close to the same size as the size small IST wetsuit above. It is black and blue and flourescent yellow. This is a bright nice looking wetsuit. It is a 3.0 mm wetsuit also neoprine. You can see in the photos that there is very little or no wear on it at all. I will sell this one for $80 since it is not a name brand like the IST Proline above.

Thanks for looking!

Kurt

Art, Graphics, Woodworking, Miscellaneous, Science, Space, Technology

Photos from Star Wars exhibit

July 3, 2013 kleucht Leave a comment

Back in April, the Star Wars traveling exhibit titled “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” was at the Orlando Science Center. It was pretty amazing. The exhibit is now in Indianapolis and will complete it’s 20 city tour in San Jose California later this year (2013).

They had lots of great props, costumes, and models from various movies. Plus, they had some nice interactive stations and learning stations for the kids.

Here are a number of photos that I took of the exhibit. Click below to see the entire collection of photos that I took. Flash photography was not allowed and I was just using my iPhone, so the quality of these photos is not the greatest.

http://www.leucht.com/photos-new/index.php/starwars

Kurt

Art, Graphics, Woodworking, Miscellaneous

Now YOU can become a walking advertisement for Kurt’s blog!

June 4, 2013 kleucht Leave a comment

Due to “popular demand”, we have created a selection of t-shirts that you can wear to proudly show that you are an avid reader of Kurt’s blog! Are you a closet reader of Kurt’s blog that is ready to come out of the closet? Do you wish that all your friends and relatives would read Kurt’s blog too? Are you addicted to strange t-shirts that you can order online and have shipped directly to your door? All your dreams can now come true by ordering one of these wonderful Kurt’s Blog t-shirts!

Click here to browse the shirt selection and to place an order!

(front of shirt)

(back of shirt)

That is all. Carry on.

Kurt