Toy Collector
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Add an Airbag mount and the Funco owners are set.
Maybe also add an engraved “F” like the front bumper plate;
“F” for the ones Funco installs.
Blank for the DIY’ers.
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Well after sitting idle for four years (billet parts)
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Maybe also add an engraved “F” like the front bumper plate;
“F” for the ones Funco installs.
Blank for the DIY’ers.
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Great input I’ll get right on it
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i refer to them as F-words.
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Dave, Thats a nice shop, I wish we could keep ours that clean. I have allot of the same machines, but we rarely use the manual stuff anymore. Most everything has turned automated. It's the only way to keep up these days and make any money. I can's seem to get away from the old manual stuff though. Just don't have the heart to sell it. I could make a ton of room in my shop, but some of the machines have been with my family for 45 years. The Routers and lasers have really changed the game for us. They are my bread and butter, the rest is just for one off stuff, when we have to fixture or figure out a problem solve. The machines seem to multiply when your busy though!
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Very cool what are you making with that vacuum table router?
On that manual rotary is the center slightly raised? Mine is like that and it drives me fucking crazy because I always have to fixture around it.
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On a side note until I get some regular work around the shop both Eddie and myself are working on pet projects..
He wants to make a kind of high end belt buckle and belt.. not something you would buy at a store but something you buy for life.
Anyhow he started machining the aluminum prototypes last night and will finish them up over the next couple days before he makes them out of stainless..
Only pic I got because I was working on something else at the time.
What are you seeing is a top view of one of the sides. And then another one on the opposite side of the block.
He wants to make a kind of high end belt buckle and belt.. not something you would buy at a store but something you buy for life.
Anyhow he started machining the aluminum prototypes last night and will finish them up over the next couple days before he makes them out of stainless..
Only pic I got because I was working on something else at the time.
What are you seeing is a top view of one of the sides. And then another one on the opposite side of the block.
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Apparently AI isn’t gonna replace me as an engineer anytime soon…
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Various parts. The black parts are spacer plates for a customers product. The white parts are a large housing for measuring certain mined minerals.
We made the center for the rotary table. It's a pvc centering pin for a specific part we make. Otherwise the rotary table is flat.
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I was talking about the circle outside of the centering pin.. mine is slightly raised which makes it a pain in the ass.. I have never understood why mine is like that and I have almost heaved the thing into the trash more times than I can count..
Now that I have a CNC I doubt I’d ever use it again
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Couldn't you just disassemble it and use the mill to knock it flat?
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The area that is raised is hardened..
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Flap disk...
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Like I said I’ll probably never use it again.. if I find a need for rotary work I’ll get a different one.
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Well this little belt buckle represents a lot more than just a small assembly.. in a way this is what started my shop back up.
Prototype #1! This is aluminum, they will be done in short run out of Stainless with hand stitched leather.
Prototype #1! This is aluminum, they will be done in short run out of Stainless with hand stitched leather.
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i dont know much about machining, but theres some really cool stuff in the long distance skateboarding world. I'ts a pretty niche market and the gear is pretty expensive, but it is really cool stuff. I would love to have a scythe, but its somewhere in the 500-700 range, and im just not spending that for a chunk of metal. i am always amazed at the wild stuff that is coming out of the ldp world.
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I’the first one looks like a traditional skateboard truck.. the second one what is the angle about?
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The first one is more like a traditional truck, but its mounted on the bracket to lower your deck height. The second one is a front bracket, it also lowers your deck height, and gives you better ability to pump instead of just pushing. Generally with long distance, you have your front truck set at +/- 65 degrees or so, and the back truck at zero degrees. With the tail end dead, and the front at a higher angle, you can maximize your pumping efforts. There's some pretty rad bracket setups out there for the distance stuff. It's a fun world that people geek out on super hard with angles and bushing durometer and such.
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Not one lick o' GD&T, eh?
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Datum "A" has a profile tolerance of +-.0001 to make sure you can find the hole Its in the fin print, bottom right.
Its in the fin print, bottom right.