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Working on an urn for my uncle. Need to finish turning the bottom section, and finish up a few more things, and it will be good!

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Man I would die to have one of those.

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As Sceep posted, you win this thread.

I would be happy for my cremated remains to be stored in one of these, but can I get a Ducati instead:lmao:
 
Man I would die to have one of those.

:flipoff2::flipoff2:

As Sceep posted, you win this thread.

I would be happy for my cremated remains to be stored in one of these, but can I get a Ducati instead:lmao:
The amount of people who have asked for one is kinda nuts. Maybe I need to start a side hustle turning my scrap shelf into urns.
 
The amount of people who have asked for one is kinda nuts. Maybe I need to start a side hustle turning my scrap shelf into urns.
Works so well with the air cooled head, I need to start looking for a couple of 900SS heads. I bet you could make a really nice side hustle into a main hustle if you had various Harley motor options and had a booth at Sturgis.

I know a dozen blokes that would buy one if available. Please cater to us Euro Trash / Snobs.
Ducati’s need love too (and oil, always oil)
 
I passed up a couple that were at the scrap yard along with a couple big centrifugal blowers
the blowers were about 30" across and the cylinder jugs had like a 6" bore, shit was art
Dam, That would have been a cool desk fan. I don't think it came off a Merlin or 1710, but that's defiantly a big turbine for bfe. I have a soft spot for spinning shiny things. Im still kicking my self for not buying a friends 1mw steam turbine generator. It went to scrap too.

A buddy builds lycomings and other aircooled engines. He takes a full pallet of cylinders to scrap about 2-3 times a year.
 
In a pinch we've used primer to thin glue.
I get the clear primer when I can rather than the purple
because when the glue gets goopy you dump your old primer in there and shake it up to make it "normal" again

also why I get the "regular" glue instead of the "heavy duty", it's just got more solvent in it and less pvc dissolved in there, so it stays good longer rather than turning into jell-o in the can
 
I get the clear primer when I can rather than the purple
because when the glue gets goopy you dump your old primer in there and shake it up to make it "normal" again

also why I get the "regular" glue instead of the "heavy duty", it's just got more solvent in it and less pvc dissolved in there, so it stays good longer rather than turning into jell-o in the can
I never know what glue to get... they have like 40 cans on the shelf. Shits like the damn toothpaste aisle at wal-mart. I just wanna glue some gawddamn pvc... :laughing: This last time I bought some, went home, found out the stuff I had from earlier this spring was amazingly still good, so I used it and returned the new stuff. I always get too big of a can of it, but I'd rather not run out mid-project.

Luckily the pvc pipe place used to be my grandpa's and then my uncle's and is smack dab next to the farm... So at least I'm not going out of my way to find/buy the stuff.
 
Finally got these damn cabinets done in my laundry room (well still need to mount the pulls). 2 coats of primer and 2 coats of paint plus a couple extra coats on the face frame once it was glued/nailed into place took forever.

Track saws are a game changer. And panel bits on the router table makes door frames easy.

Also made the floating shelves. Miter folded 3/4 oak plywood.

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Looks nice. Those floating shelves, hollow box? Open at the back? How are they mounted?
 
Changed the water pump on a Chrysler ind-31 engine, supposedly they are interchangeable, I opted for the one that I bought because I don't like the 90° rubber hose. Well they aren't interchangeable :homer:.
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Well fuck.
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I needed about 1". This is a drop from my dad building homemade drag bits. That awkward shape is just about the shape that I need.
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A cutoff wheel later.
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Needs some holes in it.
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Cleaned up the edges.
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A little more cleaning up and...
 
You don't know how bad I was wishing for some cutting board material or even a chunk of aluminum :laughing:.
That looks way better than the nasty 90 degree rubber hose on there! Steel is best! That's about all I work with too. :laughing: Looks awful familiar to the oil filter housing spacer I built for my skid steer to space the filter housing away from the engine so I could run a 1515 filter on it instead of some smaller diameter special filter...

You just need to get one of those 12" disk sanders from Harbor Freight and put a 40 grit Zirconia sanding disk on it so you can clean up the edges and make the faces nice and flat and you'll enjoy working with that steel much more! That thing is a god-send for stuff like that. I find myself using it constantly.

For example I "built" this socket by welding a 3/4" 3/8 drive socket to a 1-1/8" 1/2 drive socket and then added the flats to it for a 1" wrench to fit on there. Made my own IPR socket for pulling an IPR valve out of a 2001 excursion with the 7.3. Worked 100x better than the wrench I had bought exactly for that application. I was able to run it in and out with a 3/8" flex head ratchet no problem, but I figured the wrench flats would give me another option for turning it.

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And a nice heavy duty hitch I made. 2" solid square shaft, 1" thick plates top and bottom, and a 1-1/4" pin hole. Gotta pull a 3x3 baler home tomorrow with it.

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And my homemade "fireball" style vise that I still haven't finished because of other bullshit going on.

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