Recent content by strike a poser

So, how's the pull down stair project coming ???

Gregor, I've followed your posts admiring your work all along. I work on Probat roasters at work and was wondering what you made and where they went. The two roasters I work on are much larger than that one, (1-240kg, and 1-1500kg), and are a little different style than that. Just curious as...

I've done this before and all responses so far are good to follow. The only other thing I can suggest is to take a cut off wheel and remove one of the cutter ends at the end of the flutes in the middle to ensure the chuck will get full engagement of the end mill on the solid round surface of...

Looks very nice. How are the edges of the standing seam going to be finished?

Any reason you installed the entry door backwards? In the states the entry doors swing into the house not out. Just wondering, nice work though!

Looks like the original IROC cars. Speaking of older Porsche's, I think the cars coming out of Singer are just pure ***. Rob Dickenson has got a real great eye for style.

Robert, FYI I got my new issue of The Rodder's Journal in the mail today and on the cover is the '35 Chevy that Cody Wells has been building. I haven't read the article yet but you got a mention in the photo captions for the hood side louvers. It's one of their bare metal features and it show...

Kris, I'm very impressed by all that you've posted. One question. How do you hold onto a air cooled torch buy the nozzle while you are welding? All the work I've done would fry my hand in no time, and that's with a water cooled torch. I'm wondering if it's the gas lens or the fact that you are...

I can't believe nobody has commented on welding on the new piece to the corroded head. That in itself will be a nightmare. If you sandblast the head first you might stand a chance of a good weld but it will still be a challenge due to it being cast. I would be more inclined to do the tap the...

Depending on how thick the OE flange is, you could, after machining the cut side flat, drill the mounting bolt holes for flathead screws and bolt that back on the head and drill your new manifold bolt pattern into the old flange and mount the Honda manifold to that essentially making it an...

You are right, access to the back side of the work is required for this to work. As far as the mention of keeping it in place w/o feed, I don't have trouble with this most of the things I've used it on it didn't matter and the unit is pretty light.

What you need is one of these life savers; http://www.drillmate.com.au/drillmate.html To anyone who hasn't used one they are the ****!

Another thing to try would get the extruded, (I assume) channel and round over the out side edges with a carbide tipped router bit.A router table works great for this and will give you the appearance of a formed channel.

A buddy of mine uses a have a heart trap. After every trapping he needs to wash it off though in a full garbage can of water. Sometimes he "forgets" to take out the cat first though.

Do all of your drilling first, then go to the shapeing. It's alot easier to hold a square or retangular peice in a drill press vice than an odd shaped one. Agreed with the hand held jig saw, use a wood cutting blade though. You need rapid chip removal.