Recent content by 428street

I've got a stalled project that I need a professional metal shaping person to come to my garage in CT to get me over the hump. Small patches I'm trying to do without using bondo. I've exceeded my skillset and can't get the last 10% that takes 20 years to acquire. If there is any interest...

Sometimes I confuse myself sir! To answer your question I am trying to make this particular dent on this end cap flat or in laypersons terms, take the dent out. Let me restate and try to use the correct terminology. Let's take for now pic two which is a close up pic of the small 1.5" dent...

Hoping I can jump in here with a question. I'm a complete novice and it has taken me years to get going on some sheet metal work and by that I mean, taking spot welds off, grinding, buying some basic tools, etc. I have a couple of Scout 800's I am restoring and these trucks are known to have...

Thanks guys, all makes sense. It's a bit overwhelming but I see the good and bad points of each post. I certainly requires a lot of $$ for all this stuff.

Thanks for all the responses, they are appreciated.

The clear difference to me is you need an air compressor to run the air tools which is $200-$2500+ plumbing, etc.

ahhh, see, I did not think about that...I only used the cut off tool as an example but extrapolated out what you said I assume the variability in speed unless the electric tool has that feature would be across the board with any electric tool correct?

I'm looking for real world opinions on air tools vs. electric tools. Beside the obvious, one being power by electricity and the other by air what are the other differences? For example, cut off tool. You can buy an air powered or electric powered tool. Thank you in advance.

Thanks to you md and ALL the responses. Greatly appreciated.

You talking about this AL?

I can also loosen the pump motor and straighten it out and realign both pulleys as well. There is no sound at all coming from that area (where pulley and plastic case bottom are touching. Only thing I am more concerned about is the feed tube (for lack of a better technical term) that goes...

AL, the next picture I was going to post was a close up of this as I just saw it myself...but here is an update from SA central. I loosened all four bolts that hold the electric motor down to be able to take the belt off which I did to measure and take a closer look for part numbers, when I...

Ok, let me rephrase. I can't just stretch the belt and put back on the pulleys. I have to "slide" one grove over then I turn the wheel on the pump and I "encourage" the belt to get back in the correct groves on the pulleys. My take either way is the belt is too loose even to be able to do...

Thanks, I'm not having an easy time finding this belt, the model number I have must be very old 3z423e...I found a 3z424e but not a 423...I'll keep looking...

Pics of the belts after I turned the compressor one, the new valve my buddy and I replaced, etc.