Recent content by bobs77vet

I think this is the last tweak, I noticed even with all my clamping pressure on the 14 ga the intermediate angle iron would walk back a little bit so I am adding some pins to drop in to the Bottom piece through the intermediate piece so it can’t walk easily. The intermediate piece is drilled...

Well I had a chance to play around with the brake and I think I have done the final tweaking of it, I added swivel tips to the clamping bolts and I added two long bolts to clamp the top bar to the ramp

The 25% discount is back now, the self lubricating is pretty cool it uses a floating center pin that when it’s depressed the cutting fluid drips to the center of the core cutting bit, I am not sure it lubricates it self using the twist drill chuck. I like it enough I would buy it as a gift for...

I bought it for this project $169, free shipping and ten. Weldon shaft cutters, those (19) 5/8 holes took 25 mins to drill, self lubricating. I love it and was too late to this party They have two cutter designs the Weldon shaft with two flat spots or a quick release “Noki” or something like...

And dressing the bolts , they don’t walk at all now almost a lathe

Now we weld the nuts in place, put them on a bolt to grind the sides to shiny metal, hold them in place on a bolt and weld the flats Only thing I may do next time is to clamp a bar across the back so spacing is uniform I think I will use copper pipe caps with green sticky grease in...

I grill , bake (pizza) and smoke on my pellet grill Ok let’s keep going. My grade 8 5/8 dia bolts came the other day and the vevor mag drill today it has a magnetic base and uses Weldon bits Let’s drill some holes and mock it up. , let’s drill some witness marks in case the tape gets ripped...

Pellet grills are great this is what you want An ash bin easily accessible, a hopper easy to empty, the flame guard easy to move from the out side, get the insulated cooking insulation I have had 4 pellet grills and still have three. One step closer to finishing the metal brake clamping bar...

Today was the day to use the metal brake mounted to the lift and figure out a clamping methodology The task at hand was to make an extension hopper out of 18 ga steel from an old industrial shelf for my pellet grill. The extension hopper better locates the pellets so gravity does it thing and...

Thanks Every so often you need to put time into upgrading shop equipment. I have been contemplating this since the lift was installed and this weekend was the time to do it It’s a 42” long metal brake that I made Maybe 12-15 yrs ago and it’s big and heavy , made from window lintels on the...

No I live in northern va basically DC I drive 6 miles in 30 minutes, I have put about 750 miles or 2200 hours on the car, the highways around me are battle zones.

Thought you would get a kick out of this, I found a local gas station selling ethanol free 90 octane pump gas for $4 a gallon , which is hard to do in northern Virginia, filled up the car and went for a ride the odometer was at 64997 and I was excited to see it hit 65,000. , the car never made...

Holy cow I fall a asleep for a couple of months and you are moving again ....i still want to see the lead sled!!!!! hope all is going well, bob

very nice!