2016 POTD Thread Archive

[blacksmithden]

I'm sure most of the Canadian guys have heard, but the news may not have reached many in the US. We've had a massive wild fire up in the oil sands region of northern Alberta. They had to evacuate the city of Fort McMurray, and there are currently 90,000 people living in shelters in various parts of our province. The city is still under a mandatory evacuation order, and we haven't had any really reliable reports on how much damage was done. Yes, the fire did sweep right through the city. The outpouring of support for the refugees has been enormous. I gave some cash, but wanted to do more. Hummm....what to do.....

I'm a moderator on a fairly large gun owners website here in Canada. I got permission from the administrators to do a little fund raising project. The guys on the site have been on me for a few years to make something called a "challenge coin" that would be excusive to the fiercely loyal members on our site. Well....I've never made a coin before. Even better...how can I make a coin that would be exclusive to our site (short form letters of the name are GOC) and make it something shooting related ?

Well....let's put a target with some shots in it on one side....the name of the website/group on the other....and let's make it out of a bullet !!! Heck yeah !!! After much failure, I finally just took a diamond bit and engraved the letters free hand on one side of the die. The other side with the target was easy in the lathe...then I used a center drill in the mill to put a few dimples in it for the bullet hits. They turned out a little rougher than I'd have liked, but from getting off on Friday night with nothing but a fund raising idea, to pressing coins out of bullets by Saturday lunch time...not too bad. Everybody who contributed anything is getting a coin mailed to them. I've raised $780 for the fire relief fund so far ! Yay ! Heres a few pics and a video.

 

[dlane]

Once I got the .0005 indicators I made this traming aid , 3/4" hard shaft ,end turned to 5/8 pressed into the 1" alu crossbar with JB . Spare holes for traming vice 5-1/5"
Edge traming aid went back it was inconsistent, this one works mo better, very consistent


Way less than half the cost of Edge

 

[NCjeeper]

A buddy of mine brought over his Jeep CJ for some repairs. He decided to go up against mother nature and pull some stuff out of the ground. Well a lot of torque and horsepower produced this and a twisted driveshaft.

(the dogs wanted to get in the picture too)

 

[roadie33]

The torque to do that much damage, did not come from a stock Jeep CJ for sure.

 

[kvt]

I bet that was fun How long did it take to repair as I see the what I think is the mount that was attached to the frame.

 

[NCjeeper]

The torque to do that much damage, did not come from a stock Jeep CJ for sure.

You are correct sir. It has a fuel injected 360 engine. TF 727 tranny. 4:1 gears in the case.

 

[NCjeeper]

I bet that was fun How long did it take to repair as I see the what I think is the mount that was attached to the frame.

I am just getting into it now. Going to have to fab new spring hangers.

 

[kvt]

He needs a drive shaft like I saw in AK while I was there, We had some guys that kept twisting them off, and one company made one that they guaranteed not to brake or twist. I bet some of them could still do it. These guys would put more motor in old Land Cursers and tires that were taller that the finders on my car, and then just see what they could go through, Towing them out of the bush was often fun.

 

[John Hasler]

A buddy of mine brought over his Jeep CJ for some repairs. He decided to go up against mother nature and pull some stuff out of the ground. Well a lot of torque and horsepower produced this and a twisted driveshaft.

(the dogs wanted to get in the picture too)

What did he do, hook a fifty foot chain and take a run at it?

 

[John Hasler]

He needs a drive shaft like I saw in AK while I was there,

No, he needs a machine designed for pulling: a tractor.