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Panasonic Tourist 3 Progress

 I thought I'd write a short update - no photo this time, violating some rule, I'm certain, of blogging, but hells bells, I'm blogging for myself aren't I? Laura attended a Zazenkai at the zen center this Saturday, and I had thought about spending the day overhauling the bearings on the Panasonic.  Overhauling is one of those things that I cannot quite say I enjoy doing, but I do get some sort of satisfaction from it.  I have a certain sort of self doubt combined with a penchant for perfectionism that can lead to a full mental breakdown, (my apologies to those who do have actual  mental breakdowns), when it comes to adjusting cups and cones.  In my mind, I feel there is a perfectly perfect position, and I can get caught up in adjusting and readjusting ad infinitum.  Every time I tighten a locknut, it seems to put everything out of whack just a little.  I get to the point where there is little to no free play, and the wheel turns freely, but is it somehow secretly too ti

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