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welder by trade, i always worked with cars as a hobby and did the normal tinkering. I watched my uncle run a lathe turning big truck hubs and what ever needed machining and i was the welder in the shop, well i got a 46 gmc ton and a half one summer and cut it down to a standard wheel base and then put a bigger gmc 270 engine in it that came out of a amphibious duck but the 4 speed trans went out,had no money to buy steel bearings but i had a supply of brass bushings some i mounted on a bolt and put in the drill press and turned on and use corse sand paper to turn to same size as the steel bearings then some i had to drill out to make bigger to fit my transmission's needs. when my uncle found out what i did and found out it worked he started showing me little things on the lathe, but did not get into the lathe untill a year ago. save a 11 inch sheldon from the scrap yard, with a little cleaning a bronze bushing here and there it turning metal again 1946 model