Recent content by Tug40

Most excellent Lucas! I love happy endings.

As a youth of 12 or 13 I owned a BSA Bantam for a while. It didn’t run & was stuck in 2nd gear when I and a friend got it. We got it running & rode it round in 2nd gear. It had a chrome & pale green tank with a rooster decal on either side of the tank as I remember. And BSA stood for Bastard...

I like it!

Very cool. I had a prop rod tether car with a Cox .049 engine when I was 10 or so. Very fun & somewhat dangerous I remember. Went on to their U control planes.

I’m 75 & I need to downsize a lot of things so ”She Who Must Be Obeyed” won’t be stuck with a lot of my stuff when I “buy the farm” not Gonna sell my SB 9 though. YMMV

My bearings are still fine after 19 yrs. but…i’ll write those numbers in my manual for future reference Thanks..

Would this be a 10v & not a d10? I do like that 1 piece crankshaft. Someone will make you an offer. Cheers

I feel your pain. my ADD often finds me working on many projects at the same time. then there’s the tools I build to work on the project I’m in the middle of. and I save all the scraps from projects, it can be a problem. but i digress….

Also Richard, a sharpened pitchfork (and an axe) comes in handy when changing the oil in my Miata.

i know you said stick is out. but, I would use this process rather than mig. even ER60 mig is hard to machine or file. 7018 or even 6013 would be my preference (I know nothing about TIG so cannot commen on that) but a number of short stick welds over a time period so shaft wouldn’t get too hot...

F350, just saw this build log this morning. Will make some great reading. Thanks

Hi Todd. I lived in Cathlamet Wa years ago. On my walks I would often stop at the museum there and look at the Wiliamette 3 truck Shay type locomotive on display there. Crown Zellerbach operated it transporting logs. They are real bulldogs. Lloyd-ss I had a knee replacement 10 or so yrs ago...

When you have a Lowbed idling at the loading ramp waiting on a boom, bucket, pin boss, or some part you are machining, you have to strive for what’ll work in the real world, not perfection. And you must know the difference.

It seems (at least in the U.S.) you are more likely to be killed at a school or while shopping than by a bear. Am I allowed to say that?

Richard, say hello to Manny Pacquiao for me, eh?