(ET) Busy day with decks

[Chris Zach <cz alembic crystel com>]

Today I spent the day cutting the parts off my old deck to put on the 
new shell. As we remember, my E20 went freewheeling down my driveway and 
into a half cord of stacked wood deck first. My very old first 
generation deck, rusted and kind of worn out anyway died for my sins.

Most of the old bolts were fused, and getting them off involved liberal 
use of my cutting wheel. However everything is now off and the new deck 
is about half way assembled with new stainless steel nuts and bolts. 
We'll see once I get the middle motor checked out how it works.

And the E20 itself is still dead in the water: I'm going to put my 
constant voltage power supply on it for a day or two to charge the 
batteries to 43 volts, then decide what to do. A good idea was to just 
get a 30a bridge rectifier and screw it onto the heat sink. Think I'll 
buy one for the short term.

C