Yep I’m starting on some. Turned the OD between center. Already have soft jaws bored to finish them
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Yep I’m starting on some. Turned the OD between center. Already have soft jaws bored to finish them
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I've been working on the little 4x4 almost every day for few hours during the week, and did managed to completely finish the passenger rear wheel arch inside and outside, i also took all the loose rust and undercoating and sprayed it with anti rust acid. Then i finish seam sealing the trunk also seam sealed all the welds and new patch panels. Today i also bought a full roll of insulation, is made for houses but i've used it before and works really good, but is really heavy, the russians when made this Lada did not put hardly any insulation in it, also most of the running gear and exhaust is hard mounted so the road noise is deafening.
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Today i had to make couple of spacers for a new support on my shop press, i made them from some thick wall tubing. They were simple enough to make, face, chamfer, cut off. The next part i made is for the little russian 4x4 and is for the LPG (propane) filling, i don't want big fill ports in the side of my vehicle, so i bought the smallest charge port i could find. But finding an adapter to match the nozzle to the gas station pump proof hard, so i had one i've made some time before and made an adapter on which i cut a relief groove for the sealing ring, this should be a good addition for the little 4x4.
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Well winter is sure coming, and my daily driver is still on summer tires and i need to do a service on it, so i spent some time cleaning the big garage drove the little 4x4 outside so i can work on my daily, i did an oil change, changed the timing belt, new tensioners, new water pump, also put on the winter wheels, by the time i got done, my father ask if i could change his tires as well, so by the time i finished pulling the little 4x4 in the garage was time for bed, so a full day working in the garage.
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The wife asked me to make a pen press for her to assemble and disassemble pens she has been making. Since she has in the past complained that the things I make for her are not of the same quality as items I make for myself, I decided to make it special.
Hope she likes it.
Ray
Hope she likes it.
Ray
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No , 2 different pieces . Figure I would fool around abit and try a few options . Just trying to save the shoulder . 
I have a few baffles in the longer one and then the brake on the end . Not sure what to expect !
I have a few baffles in the longer one and then the brake on the end . Not sure what to expect !
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My wife is an avid fly fisherwoman. I wanted to join her, so I ordered a fly rod and reel off of amazon.com, and when it arrived, I had a distinct worry. I do love the outdoors, and backpacking, so I had ordered a 9' rod that came in 4 sections. When I assembled the rod, it seemed way too long for some of the places I have hiked to (tight corners in the streams, lots of overgrowth and trees covering the waterway). I wanted to be able to hike with a 9' for lake-side fishing, but shorten the rod in a pinch for other places.
Maybe I simply thought that this was a good excuse to head out to the shop.
Either way, that's what I did. I had a chunk of 1/2' aluminum rod from Home Depot from a previous task, so I chucked it up in the lathe and turned it down to an outside diameter 1/8" larger than the ferule side of the butt-end of the rod. Then I turned down one side of it to the outside diameter of the next section (which has a taper, BTW), and then drilled it out to fit over the butt-end, ferule-side. Essentially, it's a lightweight part that eliminates the section of rod that connects to the butt-end, and it fits in the cap of the case.
Granted, it DOES change the action (or "speed") of the rod. The rod becomes much more stiff down low (which means the rod becomes "fast"). The purpose was not to have two moderate rods of different lengths, it was to have a single rod that could work in a pinch for a different situation. You simply have to change your casting method. It fits, it is extremely light, and now I can pop into odd situations and still spend a day doing nothing (like that's going to happen, I end up doing too many different things).
Maybe I simply thought that this was a good excuse to head out to the shop.
Either way, that's what I did. I had a chunk of 1/2' aluminum rod from Home Depot from a previous task, so I chucked it up in the lathe and turned it down to an outside diameter 1/8" larger than the ferule side of the butt-end of the rod. Then I turned down one side of it to the outside diameter of the next section (which has a taper, BTW), and then drilled it out to fit over the butt-end, ferule-side. Essentially, it's a lightweight part that eliminates the section of rod that connects to the butt-end, and it fits in the cap of the case.
Granted, it DOES change the action (or "speed") of the rod. The rod becomes much more stiff down low (which means the rod becomes "fast"). The purpose was not to have two moderate rods of different lengths, it was to have a single rod that could work in a pinch for a different situation. You simply have to change your casting method. It fits, it is extremely light, and now I can pop into odd situations and still spend a day doing nothing (like that's going to happen, I end up doing too many different things).