Recent content by Airbalancer

I made a couple parts which took the better part of a Saturday. Maybe 3 or 4 hours.

I picked up a couple vintage work lights and one was missing a couple parts. The original parts were die cast and pretty challenging to copy in steel. I cut the major features on the Bridgeport and finished with some files and the angle grinder. Nice weather to get out into the shop :)

There is a guy selling them on Ebay with sheetmetal type vise grips attached. Looks like he has a bunch of em. I polished it with a die grinder with a scotchbrite wheel and then on the buffer.

I got the power arm polished up, now I have it displayed in the living room like machinist art :)

There was ALOT of filing :)

Some more pics

Here's the first piece back in August, seemed pretty easy.

I jumped in early on this as I was looking for a machining project at the time of Tom's first post. Before the second video came out I bought all the steel and downloaded the plans. So every week I would watch the video and work on the part. I'm glad I started this way because if I watched em...

I just started rebuilding an old Land Rover and also some hobby machining. The site looks like a great place for information on just about anything. Cheers Mike