Random stuff you made.

[Ditchrunner]

Tool to keep the harmonic balancer in place while torquing the crank bolt. For ford 2.0/2.3 duratec engines.
One time use so some scrap exhaust tubing and 1/2” square tube was good enough. $60 on Amazon or basically free and 20 minutes.

 

[[486]]

and getting some tig practice it looks like

I'm perpetually in the stage of "sometimes it looks okay, but more often I'm grinding my teeth and internally screaming"

 

[Ditchrunner]

and getting some tig practice it looks like

I'm perpetually in the stage of "sometimes it looks okay, but more often I'm grinding my teeth and internally screaming"

Nah I’m just a crappy mig welder.

 

[Sceep]

No commercially available hose bib freeze covers for your cisterns ball valves? Time for some 2 gallon home brew...

That'll work. Prolly loft a little pink panther in there too just because I have a trash bag full of it here.

 

[roundhouse]

I made a ballast box for my tractor. Most was on hand besides the hardware and I picked up a sheet of 0.125 to have enough material. I have about $150 into it. Now to throw some paint at it.

What’s the pvc pipe for ?

 

[Sceep]

What’s the pvc pipe for ?

shovels/rakes/hoes/pick-bars.

is my guess.

 

[JohnnyJ]

What’s the pvc pipe for ?

shovels/rakes/hoes/pick-bars.

is my guess.

Yep. I figured I'd try PVC, or could move to muffler pipe. Just a what I had around thing.

I threw some paint at it, loaded it with some blocks and it's been doing the job around the house.

 

[AlxJ64]

A friend bought one of those RC tracked mower things and somehow keeps destroying the blade assembly. In his defense, it is rather thin stamped sheet metal and he's been running it in some about 2 year growth bank stuff along his river front property mowing some steep banks.

Well, he destroyed two sets of blades and cross brackets and came to me asking for something that won't end up breaking. I warned him there is a good chance that the next week link may be the crankshaft but he was fine with that. Honestly though, the inertia that this stump jumper ring has seems to help absorb the impact as the thing doesn't bog now when it hits stalky stuff.

The disc is 3/16" AR400 that was cut to allow a slug to be set down in it, that had an oversize bore. The slug was TIGd in and then the blades have a bushing bolted to them that then is retained on the top so they ride in a much bigger shaft than just the 3/8" bolts that were basically chewing their way out of the stamped sheet metal brackets. The blades are also AR400.

The pics are video screenshots so thats the odd format.

 

[ProjectTwin]

Had a guy ask for some 3/4” MDF rings so he can build these 3” mids into his A-pillars.

Drew them up and let the stupid robot cut it.

Updated these things. The previous pieces were the test run.

The wall around the OD of the driver is gapped 1/16" for upholstery and the OD of the unit is larger so it won't be a pain (break easily) when guys work with/around it with adhesives and filler.

I also tightened up the tolerances around the terminals and put a 45 degree chamfer on the back side ID.

So now I'm shipping these out at $30 for 4.

 

[4x4mechanic]

Updated these things. The previous pieces were the test run.

The wall around the OD of the driver is gapped 1/16" for upholstery and the OD of the unit is larger so it won't be a pain (break easily) when guys work with/around it with adhesives and filler.

I also tightened up the tolerances around the terminals and put a 45 degree chamfer on the back side ID.

So now I'm shipping these out at $30 for 4.

Sweet! Wish I had the time and talent to mess with stuff like that. I took years of wood shop in high school but 99% of it ended up being wasted.

 

[Gbkeith]

I’m a rack making fool now. I’ll have a rack for everything before long

 

[arse_sidewards]

I’m a rack making fool now. I’ll have a rack for everything before long

Let me know when you come up with a solution for axles and heavy stock that doesn't take a day to make. I've outgrown the one I built many dozens of pages ago.

 

[Gbkeith]

Let me know when you come up with a solution for axles and heavy stock that doesn't take a day to make. I've outgrown the one I built many dozens of pages ago.

I’ve got a design that should work. It’s an old family secret but you can have it for free. Take whatever you have sitting around and weld it together like this thing that’s been sitting here since before I was born.

 

[billybob_81067]

I’m a rack making fool now. I’ll have a rack for everything before long

Looks good man! I love racks!

I need to finish up some other racks I've been working on too. Then need to chop up some concrete to sit them on.

Let me know when you come up with a solution for axles and heavy stock that doesn't take a day to make. I've outgrown the one I built many dozens of pages ago.

Nothing fancy at all, just an old truck frame with legs and axles stacked on it to keep them out of the dirt. Plug the vent or face it downward and they will live happily outside forever. I dunno why people store them inside.

 

[billybob_81067]

My short drops rack is getting a bit overcrowded, so I'm building some new ones so maybe I can organize stuff a bit better...

Old one stuffed to the gills...

New ones I'm working on. I currently have all the bridge decking cut to fit between the rails top and bottom and just need to get around to welding them in place... Been cleaning up some old power poles and bridge timbers and making bunks for them to sit in as well as catching and working cattle, so I haven't had a ton of time to work on these lately.

 

[arse_sidewards]

This is the one I have now. Turns out I didn't post it here I posted it in my shop thread. I already have all my axles sitting out of the dirt. What I want is to stack them vertically against a wall.

 

[posford]

scrap the drum brake 44

 

[Thatg9659]

You would put the biggest heaviest one up top

 

[arse_sidewards]

You would put the biggest heaviest one up top

I put the one I'm least likely to need in the hardest to get to spot.

scrap the drum brake 44

I could scrap everything on there (which has doubled since those last pictures were taken) twice over and still fill it right back up with the axles and material stock I have kicking around.

 

[Coyote]

Does yours have 4 flights of stairs?

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

I need to figure out wood storage in the garage.

 

[Gbkeith]

Does yours have 4 flights of stairs?

I kind of love that thing. I showed it to my brother and he does not.

 

[Coyote]

I kind of love that thing. I showed it to my brother and he does not.

We wouldn't have built it either. We bought it at auction. $1500.00 with about 20% of that rigging on it.

 

[Gbkeith]

We wouldn't have built it either. We bought it at auction. $1500.00 with about 20% of that rigging on it.

That’s a pretty good deal.

 

[subybaja]

You would put the biggest heaviest one up top

Reminds me of how the WTC pancaked, one floor overloading the next, going straight down...

 

[budget76]

I need to figure out wood storage in the garage.

I've recently been embracing the "into the fire" organization method with a LOT of my inventory

 

[bgaidan]

This is the one I have now. Turns out I didn't post it here I posted it in my shop thread. I already have all my axles sitting out of the dirt. What I want is to stack them vertically against a wall.

Need adjustable bars in the back to support the pinions. It's a bitch to fish an axle out of the middle when the one above keeps rolling the pinion down on to it.

 

[[486]]

"trash/scrap everything" has a certain charm to it

I guess mostly because it isn't something that I could bring myself to do

 

[budget76]

"trash/scrap everything" has a certain charm to it

I guess mostly because it isn't something that I could bring myself to do

like i said above, I'm finally getting there with wood. But that old pump off the pressure washer that I don't even know if it works, it needs to stay in case I need it in the future

I'm trying hard to trim the shit down. it's definitely a plague of both being able to repurpose things, and reading forums like this where you see cool projects and that idea lingers for years and you never have time, but you keep the shit sitting around to be able to make that cool thing you saw one day in the future

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

I've recently been embracing the "into the fire" organization method with a LOT of my inventory

Gonna need to...