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Rust. Never. Sleeps. It can, however, be smacked upside the head, thrown in the trunk of the car, taken down to the river, and left to fend for itself for a little bit. (more…)
Coming up with the idea for a part is 5% of the battle…actually making the part is another 10%…getting it to work as expected is the other 75%. Use of the handlebar risers in this article, we discovered they were a 1/4″ too short, interfering with the gas tank. So we decided to iterate, this time in aluminum:
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Don’t mistake a lack of updates for inaction. This summer has been chock-a-block with geeky stuff:
DEFCON:
(Both servers were operating!)
Determining the value and condition of an Oxy-acetylene rig…verdict: In good shape, much more expensive to REPLACE than you’d get if you sold it…I suspect I have a winter project here.
The Tesla Coil project continues…I needed a signal generator to perform the tuning, so I made this CanaKit kit:
Belfry, the 1966 Cadillac S&S Vicoria Hearse needed some brakework:
I had an oddball cut or two on the bandsaw:
I’m working on a bit o’ dynamics for a halloween prop. (This is a cam follower, more information will be forthcoming)
And even took a night shot of the herd:
We got a new Fake (pre-lit, three piece, quick assembling!) X-mas tree this year. When the time came to place the star on top, I discovered there was no mathematical way possible to make it stay put up top.
So I grabbed the calipers and a sheet of paper:
toystore for guys.
We’re working on Halloween props. (less than 80 days remaining!) And it occurs to me that an odd fiddly site should talk about the things that make odd fiddly things. (more…)
New hobby category! I’ve spent some time doing things photographical and figured here would be a good place to show last weekends events!
In 2006, I purchased, disassembled and refurbished a 1962 South Bend 10L lathe. I documented the process in the hopes someone might be interested. This is that story.