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Jgaz

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Pretty comfortable (by AZ. standards) in the garage this AM so I made a quick hanger for the planning stop I made last week.
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This site has forced me to up my game when it comes to projects.
I see so many excellent examples of storage etc. that I’m no longer comfortable just throwing something together.
 
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FLHCHAZ said:
I'm cutting the rust out and amd going to use my mig machine to spot weld the replacement panels in. Probably going to be a mix of spot welds and rosette welds.
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do your patch panels go back to existing seams (so can be taken apart by machining out original spot weld) or do you have to cut and fit new seam?
 
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The older little truck (93 Ranger) has been running pretty rough lately. Today she got new plugs, wires, cap, a fuel filter and a new air filter.
Much smoother now....
My FIL bought it new in 93 and I bought it from him in 2002. It's been the entire family's dump, moving and home depot truck and unfortunately, I haven't maintained it like I should have.
Now it doesn't get driven much and only goes to the dump and rock yard up here in the foothills... great little workhorse and when I open the hood I can actually recognize most of the parts..unlike the new trucks
 
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micromind said:
Most of those mills are 3 phase and it looks like you might have 3 phase power to the shop. Likely a 120/240 3Ø 4 wire high-leg ∆ system.
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It's a 3 phase mill, but the shop pictured is the one that it's leaving. The other pictures are of my shop, and I only have 110/220. I'll use a VFD.

Thanks
 
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cannuck said:
do your patch panels go back to existing seams (so can be taken apart by machining out original spot weld) or do you have to cut and fit new seam?
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Along the edges, I used a spot weld cutter to seperate the panel from the rest of the body, If I was going to replace the entire panel, I could have done that all the way around. Since I'm just replacing the back half, I cut it with a cut off wheel in my grinder. To replace the entire panel would require removing doors and wiring, too much for a one man operation! I decided just to fix the rust and cut back until I got to good steel. I'll be putting gromets in, so that I am able to apply a liquid rust preventer every year (like Fluid Film).

I should disclose that I am an amature! I have never done this before, but it ain't rocket science.
 
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Ok, well let's add another trophy to the mix. This one is called the 'Heritage Award' and will be awarded in the 'Pre-WWII Vehicle' class.

The gas pump and eagle I copped off another trophy I had on the shelf. I stained the bottom wood base with the Black Stain and clear coated it in Polyurethane. Next I cut some thick board stock to length, trimmed the corners to 45o to match the base board corners and routed the top edges on the portable Craftsman table ( this took a few tries to get right ) and lastly I applied the Howard's Feed-N-Wax.

Then it was just a matter of lining eveything up, drilling and countersinking a few holes, a touch of glue and finally stick and trim the black felt to the bottom.1725577920104.jpeg
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Still some time left before the our villages Car Show on Sept 28th to make another trophy. This one I'm still working on for 'Classic Muscle Cars 1964-1974'. It's basically a stylized shift console like the ones you would see between bucket seats of era.

Keeping with the basic designs and colors of the other trophies, the bottom plaque was stained Black then glued and screwed to the thick natural wood board. The shift rod is made from length of 1/4" all-thread slipped into an aluminum pipe and bent to shape leaving some thread sticking out of either end. The red shift knob is from my old Bolens tractor.

After drilling a 1/2" hole at an angle thru the top wood board down in to the bottom plaque, I hot glued the shift rod pushing it down into both boards. The small rubber boot and gold eagle came from my junk drawer. The eagles perch is made from two pieces of scrap wood and stained Black. Lastly I rubbed in some Howard's Feed-N-Wax into the natural wood and added the black felt to the bottom.

I could probably call it finished at this point, but I'm considering adding a shift pattern on top of the natural wood board next to the shift rod. Not sure yet on how I should do it. Meanwhile, there's still some time to create another trophy.
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kaymccampbell said:
Is a live one on the rails as amazing as a dead one in the museum?
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Much more so. 1.2 million pounds of machinery going past, 10’ away, at ~50MPH with the whistle full open is a body pounding experience. Walking past the dead ones in museums is interesting, but nothing like seeing it do what it was meant to do.
 
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Old Man Roger said:
I was hoping for a racing stripe.lol
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There is one!

There's a mahogany accent strip running straight down the middle of the deck. It's subtle, but you can tell the wood grain is different from the surrounding cedar. I'll go snag a picture of it in a few hours after the paint has cured more. Right now the paint is in that weird 'flash' stage where it has a dullness to it.
 
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Spent an afternoon last weekend replacing front calipers on a daughters Expedition. During the week she called about an unusual noise in the front end. Since she lives a couple hours away all I could was speculate. Other daughter and grandson went up to see her over the weekend so grandson crawled underneath with her to investigate. What they discovered was one of the 'slip pins' was obviously not tightened properly from the factory and fell out. Fortunately, O'reilly had the replacement pin/bolt and the 'nut' was still in place so they were able to fix it and tighten properly.
I've replaced untold numbers of calipers over the years and have never seen nor heard of this happening.
 

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niget2002 said:
There is one!

There's a mahogany accent strip running straight down the middle of the deck. It's subtle, but you can tell the wood grain is different from the surrounding cedar. I'll go snag a picture of it in a few hours after the paint has cured more. Right now the paint is in that weird 'flash' stage where it has a dullness to it.
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Racing stripe. Hard to see in the reflections.

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