Vumad
Super Hero, with a cape!
- Location
- St. Pete, FL
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smokeysevin
one man with a couch
- Location
- Houston
Yeah but think of the gas you will save by not having to drive to lowes or homedepot...
It practically pays for itself.
Sean
It practically pays for itself.
Sean
Vumad
Super Hero, with a cape!
- Location
- St. Pete, FL
This guy gets it.
Vumad
Super Hero, with a cape!
- Location
- St. Pete, FL
Today wraps up a composite project that took me 2 years to do. 2 years is a long time to do a job, but looking back... just holy poop have a learned a lot of poop in the last 2 years. Learned 3D printing, now I 3D print plug making tools, custom blind wrenches, custom vacuum attachment for my DA, a custom after cooler for my compressor to cool and dry the air... 2 tiny kids and a ton of other projects I have finished during this same time...
Anyway...
This is what a desert fox toy hauler looks like before the front end, which is basically cardboard, delaminates and rots out absolutely everything. The front is Filon backed with cardboard held on with butt seams and they cost over 40k new!! (Note: I didn't know what I was getting into when I sold my steel cargo trailer and got this. We enjoyed it for about 2 years before I realized how they were built and the extent of the damage, and the poor previous repair quality, to the one I had purchased.)
This is the now the largest composite mold I have ever built. (One off part, male layup and body work, no plug and female mold). Previously the biggest thing I had ever built was the baby jet which landed itself if ProRider magazine.
This is that came off of it...
And I can today I get to finally call that job done...
It’s not perfect, but I built it completely by myself, on my carport, without any professional tools. (I could have gotten the light wave out and the middle line straighter but I opted to call it good enough so we can start using this thing.)
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Anyway...
This is what a desert fox toy hauler looks like before the front end, which is basically cardboard, delaminates and rots out absolutely everything. The front is Filon backed with cardboard held on with butt seams and they cost over 40k new!! (Note: I didn't know what I was getting into when I sold my steel cargo trailer and got this. We enjoyed it for about 2 years before I realized how they were built and the extent of the damage, and the poor previous repair quality, to the one I had purchased.)
This is the now the largest composite mold I have ever built. (One off part, male layup and body work, no plug and female mold). Previously the biggest thing I had ever built was the baby jet which landed itself if ProRider magazine.
This is that came off of it...
And I can today I get to finally call that job done...
It’s not perfect, but I built it completely by myself, on my carport, without any professional tools. (I could have gotten the light wave out and the middle line straighter but I opted to call it good enough so we can start using this thing.)
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smokeysevin
one man with a couch
- Location
- Houston
Thats a huge job, well done.
Sean
Sean
- Location
- West Tawakoni
Final rivets done on the tail section. A couple small items and she is ready to get skinned.
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OCD Solutions
Original, Clean and Dependable Solutions
- Location
- Rentz, GA
What is it?
Ducky
Back in the game!
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
A tail for an ultralight maybe?
Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
What Gravel and Road Bikes are those?
- Location
- West Tawakoni
It is a tail section for a homebuilt kit aircraft. Company is Sonex Aircraft. The model I am building is a Waiex B.
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- Location
- West Tawakoni
Gravel is Slate from Cannondale. And the Roady is CAAD 10 also from Cannondale. The Slate has about 10k miles on it. The CAAD about half that.
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Vumad
Super Hero, with a cape!
- Location
- St. Pete, FL
I put a big fatty in my printer for the first time tonight. This part would have taken 4:25 to print with the 0.4mm nozzle, but it was ready to work in 59 minutes with the fat mama jama 1mm nozzle.
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smokeysevin
one man with a couch
- Location
- Houston
Made a set of helping hands for my soldering area out of some 19x23mm aluminum scrap, a pair of coolant mist tubes, and some alligator clips. I still need to add some heat shrink to the jaws but its close enough.
Sean
Sean
OCD Solutions
Original, Clean and Dependable Solutions
- Location
- Rentz, GA
Drug home some more scrap aluminum today….haven’t quite decided what to build out of it.
- Location
- Desert Hot Springs,ca
- Location
- Desert Hot Springs,ca
Piece of stainless steel plate with 3 holes and a straight piece of brake line from autozone and 5 minute epoxy. My plastic fuel pickup had broke on my 550 so I made one out of metal and epoxy. Has been holding up fine and love the in tank filter/ check valve. Next time I will flare all the ends with a flaring tool.
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
After fooling around with the Jetworks T handle mixing screws and really chowing up me finger tips... because those little roll pins are sharp :/ ...I decided to modify the stock screws from a 2010 rn. They have those low profile screws because they're hidden behind the giant brass plugs...but they turn so nicely and there are subtle differences between the oems and the Jetworks from my experience. So, I wanted to go back to oem. I used stainless socket head cap screws and wingnuts with a slight modification...they are BY FAR a nicer experience to adjust the screws 
While I was there, I also had a bad fuel inlet so I made my own using a brass plumbing street fitting. You can see there is just a slight difference between the original and the one I made. The previous one was a 90* inlet that somehow got bent, fractured and pulled out. It leaked pressure like crazy. Not anymore!
While I was there, I also had a bad fuel inlet so I made my own using a brass plumbing street fitting. You can see there is just a slight difference between the original and the one I made. The previous one was a 90* inlet that somehow got bent, fractured and pulled out. It leaked pressure like crazy. Not anymore! Attachments
BruceSki
Formerly Motoman25
- Location
- Long Island
Those T handle adjusters are trick!
I personally hate the jetworks ones on the 2005 and up carbs with tamper proof caps. I think they suck. Every set I’ve ever installed binds up the threads somewhere and are not easy to adjust.
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I personally hate the jetworks ones on the 2005 and up carbs with tamper proof caps. I think they suck. Every set I’ve ever installed binds up the threads somewhere and are not easy to adjust.
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Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
Pay attention to them. Years ago JSS came out with the alum ends that you could glue the insert on then attach the knob. They were supper nice to adjust. But I started having issues with tuning. One day I popped the hood and the entire knob had backed itself out. We determined that the extra weight in the right condition would un-screw itself.
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
I hope that doesn't happen, these are 6-32x1" stainless screws threaded into the core by about 3/8" deep, stainless wingnuts and jam nuts on both the wing nut plus the mixing screw with red loctite for added security lol. Hopefully the mixers don't back out as a result, I can say though this arrangement is by far nicer than the Jetworks style. I had a female friend who has never touched this stuff test them out last night. She was really impressed with my work but really not with the Jetworks parts lol. If my work passes the soft hands test, then I'm happy