The Zereps

Arthur and I picked up a used, non-working “PowerWheels Lil’ Quad” from a thrift store a few weeks ago. Arthur fell in love with it as soon as he saw it, even though it didn’t work.  Not being one to let an opportunity to fix up an electric power toy pass by, I bought it (for $10) and took it home.  Arthur is really into ‘Bob the Builder’ right now and there’s an ATV on BtB that’s called ‘Scrambler‘, so naturally he gave his ATV the same name. Arthur thought it was cool just to have another ride-on toy, but I set to work figuring out how I could get the electric motor working again so he could drive it around. I stumbled upon a site called www.modifiedpowerwheels.com that has a ton of good information about modding PowerWheels.

To get Scrambler working again, I had to redo some of the wiring (which was in pretty bad shape) and install a new 12V sealed lead-acid battery. The steering on it was pretty wonky too, so I used a piece of 1mm steel (which was a light-fixture mount in a previous life) to reinforce the steering column and tighten it up significantly. Here are some pictures of our project; we had lots of fun getting it working again.

Yum

Here’s what our counter looks like. That is just the harvest from the past 3 days. Needless to say with 30 tomato plants in the garden this year, we’re having a hard time keeping up with them. Looks like its time to take up canning.

Delicioso!