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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Eyeball on October 18, 2007 3:20 pm

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: Eyeball on October 18, 2007 3:20 pm

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=216215

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: Tom on October 18, 2007 3:46 pm

I have done it!! Just not with aluminum. The front wheels on the 4d have an 1/2 taken out of them and welded back up. Went to Texas right after that with the car, it work fine. It helps that I have access to a big lath.

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: pinstriper40 on October 19, 2007 5:47 am

I wish I had access to a big lathe. I got to machine some stuff in high school and I loved it. we had to make screwdrivers out of 1 1/2" steel and just mill everything off.  kool stuff.

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: racerjohnson on October 19, 2007 6:23 am

i heard a lathe is the only tool that can build itself. is it true?

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: Tom on October 19, 2007 1:24 pm

Quote from: "racerjohnson"

i heard a lathe is the only tool that can build itself. is it true?

I heard that too...... but you have to be a hell of lot better at it than I am to make one.

Got thinkin'........ on my 3 cars right now there are 12 wheels. Out of those 12, 6 have been modified by me some how. I guess I am a wheel whore. :D

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: Serious on October 19, 2007 1:32 pm

I dont think you could build a lathe with just a lathe...

within th enext year or 2 i plan on owning a mill and a lathe, i bid on a nice bridgeport in a surplus auction at work this month and missed it by 25$  A nice sized lathe is going to go up this spring and im gonna try and get it..   WHere im gonna put it? i dunno yet. it would pit in my garage but then i could only fit 1 car in it hahaha..

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: eberhama on October 19, 2007 5:10 pm

Serious- my uncle has a large mill hes going to sell. I think it came out of Alloways machine shop. Nothing wrong with it, they just dumped all there old ones and went with CNC ones. I can get price/pics if you interested.

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: racerjohnson on October 19, 2007 10:31 pm

Quote from: "eberhama"

Serious- my uncle has a large mill hes going to sell. I can get price/pics if you interested.

Please make that info public!!!

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: Serious on October 20, 2007 10:45 am

How Large?  I really dont need anything larger than a 50" Bridgeport really...

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: eberhama on October 21, 2007 3:56 am

Heres the pics and info for all who requested it. The brand name is Moore. It came out of Gremada's machine shop. My uncle said it was a precesion jig bore(?) but functions just like a mill. Its about 7.5-8ft tall, and he estimated its weight @3000lbs. It comes with the six tool holders. It is 3-phase. $900, located a couple miles west of Casselton, ND. Its on a pallet, and he has a forklift to load it.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/eberhama/dcp_1557.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/eberhama/dcp_1559.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/eberhama/dcp_1558.jpg)

Title: Tom....you up to this?
Post by: Serious on October 21, 2007 3:21 pm

Thats a nice machine, but it dosent have near enough left to right swing that i would want..  Thats a killer heavy Duty machine though..

hellova price too..