- Location
- Lake Elsinore
This is all in good fun.
So I'm not scared of trying something new, (NO Mako that doesn't mean I will go "hunting" with you on one of your man scout trips) and I'm shooting for doing this entire project myself with the exception of the final welding. Hopefully I pull it off.
Yesterday I removed all the insides and cut off the junk on the outside of the axle and learned the following:
First thing I learned was using a cut off wheel and flap disk wearing an outfit like this might not be a good idea.
Second no matter how rad your hipster beard and tight fit carharts are you really need some ear protection.
If its a sparkin its a cuttin, right up until about the wheel is 1/16" larger than the disk holding it to the angle grinder, at which point the sparks change from good to bad.
A flap disk will make the metal within an inch of the target really F'ing hot.
It's best to not keep your open beer within arms reach of where you are grinding, unless of course you like the taste of metallic beer.
It is much harder than you think to smoke a cigaratte, hold a beer and use a angle grinder all at the same time.
Using a flap disk is a lot like being a teenager having sex for the first time, you gotta push for sure but push too hard and you will be reaching for a new disk really fast.
Kids can in fact knock a axle sitting on jack stands off no matter how much you told your wife that it is secure, safe and the kids would never be able to push it off the stands.
Finally, a deaf 85 year old neighbor can absolutely hear you grinding at 11 O'clock at night even when she isn't wearing her hearing aids and can then yell loud enough to get your attention over the sound of the grinder, through ear muffs from 25' away.
So I'm not scared of trying something new, (NO Mako that doesn't mean I will go "hunting" with you on one of your man scout trips) and I'm shooting for doing this entire project myself with the exception of the final welding. Hopefully I pull it off.
Yesterday I removed all the insides and cut off the junk on the outside of the axle and learned the following:
First thing I learned was using a cut off wheel and flap disk wearing an outfit like this might not be a good idea.
Second no matter how rad your hipster beard and tight fit carharts are you really need some ear protection.
If its a sparkin its a cuttin, right up until about the wheel is 1/16" larger than the disk holding it to the angle grinder, at which point the sparks change from good to bad.
A flap disk will make the metal within an inch of the target really F'ing hot.
It's best to not keep your open beer within arms reach of where you are grinding, unless of course you like the taste of metallic beer.
It is much harder than you think to smoke a cigaratte, hold a beer and use a angle grinder all at the same time.
Using a flap disk is a lot like being a teenager having sex for the first time, you gotta push for sure but push too hard and you will be reaching for a new disk really fast.
Kids can in fact knock a axle sitting on jack stands off no matter how much you told your wife that it is secure, safe and the kids would never be able to push it off the stands.
Finally, a deaf 85 year old neighbor can absolutely hear you grinding at 11 O'clock at night even when she isn't wearing her hearing aids and can then yell loud enough to get your attention over the sound of the grinder, through ear muffs from 25' away.
