My TLC experience (10 Viewers)

[sogncab]

And a final cut.
Can you see what's F'd?

Set in place.

Epoxied 6 neomydium magnets into the back.

Then arts&crafts time.

I'll sand the excess paint off once I've brushed on a bunch of coats of model paint.

 

[Bad Mojo]

Are you using Richlite or colored MDF for the final versions?

How are you doing the work holding for the double side mill and reindexing the part?

Sorry for all the woodworking/millwork questions, but it has been cool seeing you problem solve with the tools at hand.

 

[sogncab]

Are you using Richlite or colored MDF for the final versions?

How are you doing the work holding for the double side mill and reindexing the part?

Sorry for all the woodworking/millwork questions, but it has been cool seeing you problem solve with the tools at hand.

Richlite on the finals. MDF is just cheap and forgiving for a prototype. Richlite is f-ing hard on tooling and I'm sure I could have better feeds and speeds too. I started at a guess and tweaked by ear.

Vacuum table holding the parts. Not ideal for something like this, but I don't have a way good to fixture a vice. Then throw in smashing a spindle costing me $15k to replace, and I don't get too excited about doing it

Flip ops, I've got pnuematic pins on all four corners of my machine. So I can run the same zero on the stock.
That's how I dicked up the one set. I screwed up my offset. Then thought I could do a similar offset on the other side, but mirror the program and get four parts just running each face twice. But it meant running a mirror program for the one set on the TEQ side. That's why two are backwards. Rookie mistake.

 

[RevISK]

at-oy-ot doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

 

[sogncab]

at-oy-ot doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the dumbest machinist of them all?

 

[DangerNoodle]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the dumbest machinist of them all?

Probably me lol

 

[RevISK]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the dumbest machinist of them all?

Naw man, looks tight.
Gotta break eggs to make an omelette after all.

 

[sogncab]

Good plan! Poor execution......




God I hate paint.
Hellspawn of the devil.

Looks like crap this close.

Looks even worse this close. Just not getting good adhesion. When I sanded the border and the center, I got a lot of chips.

From a few feet away, looks passable. I've seen worse.


This poor F-ing passenger side wheel.

The far less skinned up driver's side wheel. This cap, the paint turned out better, but still has the chipping issue./
I kinda thought I had won. I've tried priming this stuff before, but also had weird reactions. I'm not sure how I'm going to strip and redo these. I'm hoping I can hit it with something and just dissolve the paint off to try again with something aerosol.

Outside of the s***e paint, I think they look sweet though. Good plan, poor execution.

This has been on my list for quite some time. I've got the Toyota switches in the dash with knobs that look like the FJ40 knobs, but say front or rear locker. Which is awesome, but they are hard out of the corner of your eye to identify their position. So I wanted a warning light.

There's a bank of three warning lights on the bottom left of the dash. Used to say "SEAT BELT", "BRAKE", and "EGR"
I removed the original screen printing by applying a little bit of brake fluid and it ate through it pretty quickly without damaging the lens.
Then I polished up the lenses by hand with some cleaner wax. They looked really good.
Here's where I screwed the pooch. I've had stickers that I bought from somebody on mud, don't remember who. They look just fine. The problem is I completely screwed the pooch installing the one for the rear locker, and it's crooked. The front locker is much like my personality, not very centered.

I want to smash a bag of kittens with a putter....

Didn't have any bulbs so I ran to town and grabbed some bulbs. Did a test to see how they illuminated.

The crooked labels kill me. It's a thousand deaths for my OCD. I'll have to dig through PM's and hopefully find sticker dude again and skip doing the Michael J. Fox impression while sticking them down.

Don't mind the speaker wire, I haven't built up the fortitude to drill a hole somewhere and make that tidy yet.

Never fear kids! I have a win.

Went to the Post Office today and not only did I not get shot, but I also picked up the mail which had my new shift plaque in it.

Looks mint. (original on top)

and water beading on my rust makes me laugh.
every. single. time.

 

[Green Bean]

Looks great. What thickness did you go with for the shift instruction plaque?

 

[sogncab]

Looks great. What thickness did you go with for the shift instruction plaque?

No clue. It feels about the same as the original. If I were to guess, I'd say it's .030"

I don't do gauges. Total mystery to me.

 

[wchevron]

I think total silver center caps would look fine. Or all silver then apply black to the letters.

 

[sogncab]

I think total silver center caps would look fine. Or all silver then apply black to the letters.

I'm debating about trying Cerakote on them.

Silver against silver will be hard to match though

 

[sogncab]

Looks great. What thickness did you go with for the shift instruction plaque?

That .0005" is the dial not being zero'd

 

[Green Bean]

Thanks!

 

[MOTOV8R]

Naw man, looks tight.
Gotta break eggs to make an omelette after all.

I thought it was mayonnaise not omelettes.

 

[sogncab]

I thought it was mayonnaise not omelettes.

My safe word is banana mayonnaise.

 

[Camotubebender]

Did you find the sticker dude?

Getting any rain over your way?

 

[sogncab]

Did you find the sticker dude?
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Getting any rain over your way?

Hadnt actually looked yet. Still working through the heartache of sucking.


Dude. I'm thinking I wish there was more material in the shop. Might be time to build a boat. I was reading yeaterdayn in the last 90 days we've gotten 25 inches of rain. Rained like a mofovlast night. Supposed to get another 3 in the next 12 hours. It is moist outside

 

[Camotubebender]

Hadnt actually looked yet. Still working through the heartache of sucking.


Dude. I'm thinking I wish there was more material in the shop. Might be time to build a boat. I was reading yeaterdayn in the last 90 days we've gotten 25 inches of rain. Rained like a mofovlast night. Supposed to get another 3 in the next 12 hours. It is moist outside

Try putting them on wet next time , that way you can get them where you want and then squeegee the water out with a spreader.
We got about 5" yesterday and been raining all day so far today.

 

[mtn biker]

I am confused about this rain that you speak of