2019 POTD Thread Archive

Today i wanted to take a break from body work, so i started on the exhaust, i can buy a factory system but they are really undersized and low quality, the header has two 40mm pipes that unite in one 36mm pipe. This been a weekend toy i don't want to spend money on new parts, so i went thru some of my spares and gethard some that will do the job, then i unbolted the last part from the exhaust manifold, the plan is to keep the two pipes and make a new collector to run 63mm pipe to the first resonator, then 60mm to a muffler, then 58mm over the rear axle to a back box, i'll need to make all new hanger also and a few flex joints or flex pipe, also i'll weld in a bong for a O2 sensor, i also did managed to wire wheel and paint the engine shields.
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Built a small stock rack. I don't do as much full-on woodworking as I used to, and even when I did I didn't use a lot of sheet goods. But it seems one always has to have some around, even if it's just for making jig bases or something. So I made this little rack to replace the old converted sawhorse one I've been using for the last twenty years.

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It's small enough to force me to keep my inventory low, and also be versatile enough that I can move it around if I need to. The two pockets on the back are just to make use of the back side of the structure but not in a way that it still couldn't back onto a wall or something. I always seem to hang on to thin off-cut sticks of stuff, so the vertical pockets will absorb a portion of those. That's the plan anyway, how it plays out in the end is anyone's guess.

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Thanks for looking!

-frank
 
francist said:
Built a small stock rack. I don't do as much full-on woodworking as I used to, and even when I did I didn't use a lot of sheet goods. But it seems one always has to have some around, even if it's just for making jig bases or something. So I made this little rack to replace the old converted sawhorse one I've been using for the last twenty years.

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It's small enough to force me to keep my inventory low, and also be versatile enough that I can move it around if I need to. The two pockets on the back are just to make use of the back side of the structure but not in a way that it still couldn't back onto a wall or something. I always seem to hang on to thin off-cut sticks of stuff, so the vertical pockets will absorb a portion of those. That's the plan anyway, how it plays out in the end is anyone's guess.

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Thanks for looking!

-frank
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Nice job!
 
Small lathe project making some spacers for my Toro 21" single stage snowblower. The rubber paddles have some spacers to hold them position in the middle, that I had forgot to move over when I changed the paddles on it (I noticed/remembered when I was doing the paddles on my other snowblower). I looked at the old paddles, and the spacers were missing from them as well (so they either fell out in my garbage pile due to the cold, or I had forgotten about them the last time I replaced the paddles).

Anyway, made some new ones from 1/2" rod.
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Today i'm back sending on the little Niva, i put on a small coat body filler and sended it back in couple of spots on the trunk lid and rear arch, the wheel arch needs more work but i wanted to seal it with some anti corrosion primer, that is the black primer, then i follow it with the hi build primer, the grey primer i put on couple of coats and did managed to smoke myself out of the garage.
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The little Niva is really starting to shape up. Are there any 4-wheeling/off road groups in Macedonia? Mike
 
FOMOGO said:
The little Niva is really starting to shape up. Are there any 4-wheeling/off road groups in Macedonia? Mike
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Thank you mike, there are few off road clubs, and being a mountenst country we do have the terrain for off roading, this will be a change for me, as all my other vehicles are cars.
 
I made a hydraulic downfeed for the bandsaw. I originally was going to do the downfeed I saw in the Machinist Workshop magazine but decided to go with a different design as I already had a few cylinders and didn't want to spend to much time with this project. I saw this design and thought I'd make one. I'm having a difficult time bleeding the air out. I'm going to take the check valve off and plug that bottom port as I see no reason to have it other than the bypass in the flow control valve not being able to move enough fluid when raising the saw quickly.
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