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beautiful job lasu :thumbup:

well done man ! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

hi, beautiful job man. also like restoring old bikes i would like to ask you what type of gun you find more adequate for this job (gravity, suction, pp) can you post a pic of the painting fixture you`re using? do you think a coat of a corrosion inhibitor (here we use copper phospate acid...

goaticus not a stupid question at all !, it is (was) for sharpening tig tungstens but you gave me an excellent idea. two tools in one for the price of junk dr, nastyzen, thanks for the comments, the idea was not to buy a pin vise :bounce: no really just to save some of the little tool i melted...

hi guys posted this on wtt and wanted to share here too a little job i did a few days ago when i fried the armature of a dremel tool i was going to throw it in the garbage but upon closer view i thought i could use the collet, i remembered that the collet had inserts for 1,6 mm (1/16), 2,4mm...

hi 91bronc300 sorry the late response, been buried in work (sadly not high $$ but work anyways...) i talked to my friend a week ago i think, and he said to me the caliper ended up ok. sadly his shop is like a 3 hr drive from my shop (we are in the middle of nowhere) and i haven`t had the time...

thanks mb! yes i totally agree, pride in the history behind the tools and in the men who left their impression on them. i am a strong believer in making your own tools and buying just what you can`t make. i love my shop made tools ! :rocker: pete

thanks guys, glad you liked it. yes my friend has a very little surface grinder he plans to use to grind the repair, hope he gets to it soon pete

hi guys posted this on wtt and wanted to share here too it`s a little tig job i did for a friend, i`m sure it has been done before and it`s nothing to write home about. i weld all day long but nothing even challenging... so, my friend came in with an old mitutoyo caliper he dropped on his shop...

thanks! i don`t have ac (yet) and rarely use more than 160 amps but for that distance at 300 you surely need some massive cable, do you have amp regulation at the torch or just switch? that`s other of my projects (man i have much to do) some valves and couplers to left permanently attached a...

beautiful job man! those bearings are ball or cone? i`m asking bc in my planning table (the only table...) i have a boom arm like the one festool makes (oriented to auto finishing i believe). i`m thinking to carry power, air, vac, and maybe if i get the balls, a torch cable and hose for my...

thanks a lot for your answer nastyzen. all this came in the right time as i have not started the project yet, was planning to use round tubing, now have a strong starting point to begin the crushing :). really appreciate it man. just hope to start the project soon (hope meaning $$ for materials...

hi and thanks! yes, my idea is to produce the streamline tubing myself ...if i ask the local steel distributor for this type of tubing... what is the od of the round tubing you started with and what is the profile thickness you end up with?, are the dies constant radius? how do you control the...

hi nastyzen in a recent post you showed a die for streamlining tubing, i would like to ask you about the process, its limits, materials that can be used, strenght gained or lost by the crushing, etc or maybe you can point me to some literature that deals with the subject. sorry for so many...

hi guys thanks again for your comments! softailgarage glad you liked :) tas, thanks man i really appreciate but the shipping would cost more than making them out of platinum, but thanks man it was a super nice offer. arps, thanks for the compliment it would be nice to make some bucks this way...