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[pb4ugo]

Good Ole Craigslist, I periodically look in the free section and have picked up some good stuff. Around 2 or 3:00 on a week day I see an item that's been listed for about an hour. I take a chance and text the guy. He says he's received 4 responses and everybody says they can get it after work. I tell him I can get there in a 1/2 hour. He says he'll hold it and come and get it.

We load it up in the truck. Then he said the 20gal shop vac goes with it. It already had an upgraded gun. I moved the pick up to the bottom and made the roll around so I can move it around.

 

[RUSH55]

A new favorite tool here that I never knew I needed. 18” x 1/2” cordless reversible Milwaukee 12v belt sander.
Only had it a week and have used it a dozen times already! Super great for chasing down spot welds on sheetmetal patches

 

[Waorani]

A new favorite tool here that I never knew I needed. 18” x 1/2” cordless reversible Milwaukee 12v belt sander.
Only had it a week and have used it a dozen times already! Super great for chasing down spot welds on sheetmetal patches

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First I've seen that. Nice, gotta get one!

 

[BMThiker]

I got the HF version and it's definitely handy. Reversible is something I didn't think I needed but now I'm intrigued.

 

[RUSH55]

I got the HF version and it's definitely handy. Reversible is something I didn't think I needed but now I'm intrigued.

Handy for dressing the edge of the work, as in the normal forward position it’s pulling the material towards you, switch to reverse and it pushes it back the opposite direction and cleans it off nicely. Pretty cool!

 

[pb4ugo]

I have a paint project in the near future, so I decided to rig up an air dryer to my 29yr old compressor. The in and out temp drop was surprising.

 

[John Young]

I am way behind on posting about the Holy Truck (now renamed Isabella by my son). We are a matter of a few days from putting it in a container to head to the US.

One of the last things I did in Dubai before climbing on a plane early Saturday morning was put together a tool set for the truck. Fortunately I had most everything on hand:

Today, here in Florida, I dropped off my automatic Middle East 80 with @cruisermatt for some brake work and a few other things.

Matt had just received a good-sized shipment from Japan of quite a number of fun items. Among them were--

These are very nice, high quality hammers.

 

[John Young]

I could not resist posting another beauty shot:

Matt was kind enough to provide me with a set of hammers which will go in the Holy Truck tool roll when it gets Stateside. He also got some very cool Toyota screwdrivers with the 10mm hex section just below the handle so you can use a end wrench to really twist the screwdriver.

 

[John Young]

The USB connector on the RJ77 has always been a PITA. I decided to try to do something about that--with my new Do-All / All America die filer!

No, it is not that great. I need smaller files... But it is certainly fun!

 

[John Young]

I drove across the top part of Florida and back yesterday to buy a couple of old machine tools in the 1991 turbo diesel 75 (originally it was only a 1HZ from the factory but I added a small Safari turbo to it for highway drivability)

Unloaded on the way there I got 20.4 MPG and on the way back I still got 19.1 MPG

Not bad for this old truck that had 680k km on the clock when the odometer last worked.

 

[Nad Aitch]

One dreary spring day when I was 6 or 7 I rode along with grandpa on his garden tilling retirement gig. He had a little rototiller behind a 30 horse Kubota and a Nissan hardbody pickup.

This particular day it was too wet to till but he wanted to do it anyway. Tiller got all clogged and he whipped out his pocket knife and started scrapping the tines. I said "granddad won't that ruin your knife?" He said "well what else am I supposed to use son?"

He was carrying an ol' case sodbuster. Aptly named for his uses. It's only real value was what it needed to be that very moment and that made it quite invaluable indeed. Like that day it's mostly unremarkable and prone to forget if not for the relationship it got to play a role in. Nothing out of an ordinary day with granddad, but pondering the memory I hopped on eBay and got the knife he always carried.

As a cherry on top, it's delivery was absolutely priceless. Perhaps irresponsibility, my wife and I give the two year old a pair of safety scissors and let him eat his heart out carving open the mail. We live rural and buy everything online so we'll often get 10-15 minutes of entertainment from this endeavor and the collateral damage is typically minimal.

Well I'd forgotten I bought the darn thing. As I sit at the table filing my taxes and cursing, my first born waddled up and presented to me grandpas sodbuster. Can't beat that

 

[RUSH55]

Looking forward to giving these a try soon.
(2) 2-1/2” - 3” tapered back-purge plugs and (1) 2-1/2” band-clamp purge plug.
Have some 2-1/2” 304 stainless exhaust pipe to piece together as well as 3”.
I’ll be ordering a 3” band-clamp purge plug soon.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Looking forward to giving these a try soon.
(2) 2-1/2” - 3” tapered back-purge plugs and (1) 2-1/2” band-clamp purge plug.
Have some 2-1/2” 304 stainless exhaust pipe to piece together as well as 3”.
I’ll be ordering a 3” band-clamp purge plug soon.

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Well there’s my answer. I’ve been wondering who was going to build my stainless 55 exhaust.

 

[Rifleman]

Another Craig's list Gem, I picked up this American made 3 in 1 press for $50 bucks, It's made by OTC, and was made about 30 years ago so it's all American made, none of this current so called made in America with world wide sourced parts crap, This one is just good old America forged steel, As luck would have it, i need this very tool to be able to do the ball joints on my wife's trucks this coming weekend,

 

[Tears]

Another Craig's list Gem, I picked up this American made 3 in 1 press for $50 bucks, It's made by OTC, and was made about 30 years ago so it's all American made, none of this current so called made in America with world wide sourced parts crap, This one is just good old America forged steel, As luck would have it, i need this very tool to be able to do the ball joints on my wife's trucks this coming weekend,
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I love old new or good condition tools

 

[John Young]

So I took the plunge and bought a 'new' 48v battery for the Toyota forklift but while lifting out the old one the old gantry crane casters started to bend. Quite scary to have a 3000 pound box of lead, acid and steel 5 feet above the ground with a wheel that is starting to bend over. It was scary enough to be using a very old gantry crane with a 4000 pound hoist on this, with rusty chain, but the chain held and I got the battery on the back of the flatbed of the battery truck. One thing was for sure though, I would not be trying to move the battery again with the gantry in this condition.

Here's the removal

Here's the video of the removal. You can see the closest caster has bent over a little, which alarmed me.

Pretty nasty under there

 

[John Young]

I don't know what this black stuff is but it sure looks toxic

But the forklift looks decent under all that mess

So the next thing was to get some decent replacement casters. I found a set of milspec casters on FB:

They were all pretty bad inside so I decided to replace all the bearings and o-ring seals before using them.

Yum!

 

[John Young]

One hub cover on one of the 8 wheels was so stuck that with all the heat cycles I used to try to remove it the tire became detached.

Pretty nasty. But the bearing race should give enough support notwithstanding the bits missing due to corrosion. I actually called up the manufacturer about getting a replacement of one wheel but they wanted 480 USD for a single unit and I decided to rebuild the best I could.

A lot of work...

 

[John Young]

And the one hub cover I could not get off was also unavailable, and my lathe was not operational so I had to prevail upon a friend for help and my son and I went over and he helped us create a copy. Although the manufacturer could not sell me any parts unless I had a 500 USD order the support engineer was very helpful. Not sure we could have done it as successfully if he had not provided drawings.

Here's my son with my friend's Southbend 9"

Test fit

 

[John Young]

So now we had a working replacement hub cover but it still needed the holes for the gland wrench

Fortunately I have gotten the mill to operate at least enough for this

Now for the fun part