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Post by tmf on Jan 4, 2015 20:21:49 GMT -6
couldnt have said it better myself.
hope to see more of your work.
are u on any of the other forums ?
like garage journal or home machinist?
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Post by mrmotors on May 31, 2015 18:43:08 GMT -6
Anybody else goofy enough to cut one of these apart?
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Post by mrmotors on May 31, 2015 18:44:12 GMT -6
The pan is a bit crusty...
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Post by mrmotors on May 31, 2015 18:44:58 GMT -6
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Post by mrmotors on May 31, 2015 18:47:12 GMT -6
Was a bit of a pain to cut this thing apart without screwing up the main structure and leaving the pieces intact for patterns. Having these pieces made and then will rebuild/reweld it for use.
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Post by mrmotors on Jun 13, 2015 22:00:03 GMT -6
Bought these ski's awhile back. One of them was missing the grab handle and the runner holes in the bottom are a bit hogged out, about 5/8" or so. Got some heavy wall tubing and made new grab handles. Bead blasted them and worked them over with flaps wheels on a die grinder. Have to weld on the new handles, going to make bushings and weld them into the runner holes to fix them. Might get them polished then anodized or maybe powder coated, haven't decided yet.
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Post by mrmotors on Jun 13, 2015 22:02:33 GMT -6
Also have to weld up the pin holes for mounting the springs, they're wallered out. 
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Post by mrmotors on Dec 4, 2015 22:18:48 GMT -6
 Had a few of these pieces in the works for awhile, these showed up today. I had 2 of these rear F/A bulkhead pieces made, I had also gotten some really nice reproduction belly pans from a fellow here on the board. Now I can fix that bulkhead up I had cut apart. |
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Post by mrmotors on Dec 4, 2015 22:19:42 GMT -6
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Post by mrmotors on Dec 4, 2015 22:23:53 GMT -6
 Had several of these made as well. I will machine pieces from blocks to form the ends brackets and make them to actually fit into the slide rails correctly. At least the one aluminum spring plate I have, the end plates to mount into the slides are too wide and it would bend them to force them into place. |
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Post by mrmotors on Dec 4, 2015 22:28:38 GMT -6
 Here are the ski's I was working on, got them all welded up but haven't gotten back to them. There are apparently (obviously) 2 types of grab handles. The outer ski's are original ones that I bought that had the larger handle. The back ones (re-pop) are for a F/A. I have asked a few folks and the big handles are likely Magnum while the smaller loops are F/A. I have seen pic's of F/A's with both types so?? Interchangeable I guess. |
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Post by mrmotors on Dec 4, 2015 22:35:38 GMT -6
 I was a little less than enthusiastic over the summer about sleds..... now that its cooled off it's easier to work on winter time stuff. |
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Post by red19lite on Dec 4, 2015 22:52:46 GMT -6
nice work, hard to keep the batteries charged up kevin
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Post by tmf on Dec 4, 2015 23:42:27 GMT -6
very nice work !!!!!!!
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Post by magnumed on Dec 5, 2015 5:59:46 GMT -6
Very nice Mike!
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Post by mrmotors on Dec 12, 2015 20:26:52 GMT -6
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Post by mrmotors on Dec 12, 2015 20:27:54 GMT -6
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Post by mrmotors on Dec 12, 2015 20:29:27 GMT -6
 A few more goodies showed up today. |
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Post by mrmotors on Jan 22, 2016 23:17:34 GMT -6
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Post by mrmotors on Jan 22, 2016 23:22:46 GMT -6
 I finally finished these up and off to powder coat today. Welded up and re-did the ski mounting holes. Made and installed the new grab handles, I know, they are Magnum style and not F/A, but I ain't cutting them off and doing it again so they will have to do. There are pic's of F/A's with both style of grab handles so I'm gonna run with. |
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