Recent content by Mad4wd

Guys, I am in permitting / quoting stage of 40' x 50' with 15' ceiling of a working shop (with foundation, 6" floor, not pole barn) outside of Richmond, Virginia. Here is my initial plan: Fully insulated to code (not exactly sure what R value that is...asked builder) I am assuming ceiling...

They have since changed the warranty to 1 year. I still wear them because they hold up the best IMO.

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I may be able to help (no guarantees lol) I am a manager at a car museum and we have one that was donated to us. Let me check on software that it has. Send me a pm with your contact info

The annular cutter wasn't long enough to go thru both sides I believe by looking at the pictures. Did you flip the legs and just lay it out and bore thru the other side? How difficult was it to get it to line up exactly? Or did you drill small pilot thru both sides first, then use the cutter...

How are you sharpening your tungsten and what are you using to sharpen it? The inner tubing still has mill scale on it? Was it painted and or powder coated before? We run around 18-20 on the gas but we use diffuser lens and have a lot more control over the arc with the Dynasty.

I know its a long shot, but I am looking for a manual for a Niagara Model 340/341/342 manual. I bought one that we are restoring and that would be nice to have. I can reimburse for copying costs and postage or whatever. thanks Larry

That is possible if you can find a yard willing to let you pilf 35-spline lockouts off of perfectly good axles that are worth between 500 and 1K dollars. The 30-spline ones are everywhere...35-spline not so much in our experience. That is no problem though by all means you can do that...we just...

Mr.N, Here is a picture of the shafting and the lockout on the one we built a few years ago. The spindle and the shaft will both be welded to the face plate after the slots are machined and it is bored for machined spindle and shaft material. Larry

Scout: We have already built one of these a few years ago and we used a machined tube handle. What we did is when we built the face plate and arms, we made them so the engine center line could be lowered thus getting close to a balance point. The worse ones of course are 6-cyl's. We noticed as...

Guys, Since I have had more than a few requests for the parts for these, let me see what it is going to cost to get a kit together. What would you like to see in it? I was thinking the machined steel head, the spindle, a section of splined shaft, lockout and the bearings and seal? We could also...

I need a few more days to machine the head plate, arms and rest of the parts. I will add the pics and updates as we go. I did forget to add that we cut 1/8" plates to go on the bottom of the stand to serve as mounting plates for the casters on all four corners. Larry

Defender: We made them, except for the bearings of course...we have a CNC machine shop. Larry

Now that the head was welded, we needed to place the upright into place. We have a bunch of steel blocks we use for jigs and fixtures on the weld tables and cnc machines, so we grabbed some of them and clamped them in place to make sure we stayed square to the lower frame. We then finished...

We now needed to position and fixture the head correctly. After we built a makeshift holding fixture to ensure it was square, we welded our machined steel sleeve to our upright.