THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

[5spd_xj]

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hey and when is rotm voting gonna start?!??!

 

[RCman]

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Ugh.... the lack of spelling in the posts recently has stopped me from even wanting to hit reply.
Anyway, Ross, good luck trying to get those coil spring pads made on your knee mill. Clayton uses a CNC for something like that, you arn't going to be able to get those pretty curves on a manual mill without some high dollar tooling.

Like I mentioned before, get a good 6" - 8" vise (no angle junk). Then make or buy a sine plate (not a vise, a plate). After that if you feel the need to make those fancy buckets get a rotary table.
Of course somewhere in there you'll need things such as collets, end mills, v-blocks, flange and coupling nuts, t-slots etc.

 

[themangeraaad]

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Damn they beat me haha

Yeah, I got to leave work early because of this storm we're having :eyes: aka my boss wanted to leave and said "I better get out of here before it starts getting worse" and left at 2:30ish maybe. I told him we were supposed to get hit harder than him (I live south of work, he lives north of work) and I should have been gone hours ago... so I left 30 min later.

Now I know I brought home some work that I SHOULD Be getting done. But ya know... i stopped by the packie on the way home and I just don't think it would be responsible of me to do any work after a couple glasses of whiskey..

 

[billyjp2]

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E = Electronically controlled (H would be hydraulically controlled)

Again, I could be pulling this out of my ***.

i dont know about the rest, but this is correct

 

[Hackmeister]

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nom nom time for some frozen chicken tenders for lunner, worrd.

i've been helping my roommate do his suspension / swaybars on his miata, figure its a decent snowy (HA snow) day project. coilover suspensions are SO much easier than the jeep messes with all of the rusty bolts and shit we deal with. although his thing is rusty.... .and a miata. it took longer to find where to jack it from since its so low than it did to undo the swaybar completely.

anthony i should still have those end mills, are you coming to the M+G friday or lobsters on saturday? i can get the idler from you then provided i can remember which drawer i tossed the mills in.

oh and all this talk about the snazzy CTD trucks? when i was at that interview last week, i noticed an ad in the bathroom of SLB getting rid of a few of their old work pickups, and one of them was like a just a few years old CTD dually for....... $650. yep. thats not missing a zero. no matter how much they beat up on those trucks, that's gotta be a snag of a deal

 

[asp]

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well, then 4 and E mean 4spd automatic. so nevermind.

 

[asp]

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Ugh.... the lack of spelling in the post has stopped me from even wanting to hit reply.
Anyway, Ross, good luck trying to get those coil spring pads made on your knee mill. Clayton uses a CNC for something like that, you arn't going to be able to get those pretty curves on a manual mill without some high dollar tooling.

Like I mentioned before, get a good 6" - 8" vise (no angle junk). Then make or buy a sine plate (not a vise, a plate). After that if you feel the need to make those fancy buckets get a rotary table.

Of course somewher ein there you'll need things such as collets, end mills, v-blocks, flange and coupling nuts, t-slots etc.

^ what he said

a plate would be a lot stiffer than a vice, so your cuts would be a lot more accurate than with a sine vise

 

[themangeraaad]

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nom nom time for some frozen chicken tenders for lunner, worrd.

i've been helping my roommate do his suspension / swaybars on his miata, figure its a decent snowy (HA snow) day project. coilover suspensions are SO much easier than the jeep messes with all of the rusty bolts and shit we deal with. although his thing is rusty.... .and a miata. it took longer to find where to jack it from since its so low than it did to undo the swaybar completely.

anthony i should still have those end mills, are you coming to the M+G friday or lobsters on saturday? i can get the idler from you then provided i can remember which drawer i tossed the mills in.

oh and all this talk about the snazzy CTD trucks? when i was at that interview last week, i noticed an ad in the bathroom of SLB getting rid of a few of their old work pickups, and one of them was like a just a few years old CTD dually for....... $650. yep. thats not missing a zero. no matter how much they beat up on those trucks, that's gotta be a snag of a deal

And you didnt post it up here?!? Whats wrong with you? I would have told you to talk to them and get it shipped out here for me. Cash would have been transferred to the appropriate accounts immediately. Now I'm stuck buying some MJ, pfffft :roflmao: I cant wait for MJ. I just hope I can actually pick it up on Saturday. It's looking less and less likely though. I can only get a dolly trailer so i would have to drop teh driveshaft... and I just found the original for sale post saying the rear is "lincoln locked" which IIRC means welded?... which means tow dolly is out of the question. son-of-a...

anyone got an 8.25 set up for an MJ they want to let go for [very] cheap (or dare I say I would take an MJ D35 even)? I'll just swap that fawker in if someone has one. Hell... I'll take anything to get this thing back here on Sat

 

[foxwar71]

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Anyway, Ross, good luck trying to get those coil spring pads made on your knee mill. Clayton uses a CNC for something like that, you arn't going to be able to get those pretty curves on a manual mill without some high dollar tooling.

Like I mentioned before, get a good 6" - 8" vise (no angle junk). Then make or buy a sine plate (not a vise, a plate). After that if you feel the need to make those fancy buckets get a rotary table.

I know what you mean, it would be a PITA to do it on my mill but i just dont wanna fork over the cash for them. My thoughts of how to try and do it was set the piece up on a rotary table and while spinning it with one hand, use the other to bring the end mill down/the table up.

Of course somewhere in there you'll need things such as collets, end mills, v-blocks, flange and coupling nuts, t-slots etc.

DONE:thumbup: got a bunch of that thatll get me started.

 

[asp]

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kyle, i should be there on friday

 

[ROBZ95Xj]

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i still dont see the point of the fancy plastin coil buckets, just use a round piece of steel playe just a tad wider then the coil, the hav a piece of pipe welded to it thats the ID of the coil

 

[RCman]

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i still dont see the point of the fancy plastin coil buckets, just use a round piece of steel playe just a tad wider then the coil, the hav a piece of pipe welded to it thats the ID of the coil

Agreed. While nice, I don't see the point of spending the coin on them, nor the effort to make them.
Get something that will secure the bottom of the coil like Rob mentioned and be done with it.


Now I'm off to play in the snow with the wife and dog.

 

[asp]

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transmission is donezo... sweeeeeeet. (i just checed the shifting too. everything works

 

[asp]

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what should i cook for dinner... hmm.

 

[kastein]

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hey and when is rotm voting gonna start?!??!

X2, I was eying that just before I left work going "wasn't voting going to start today?"

Ugh.... the lack of spelling in the posts recently has stopped me from even wanting to hit reply.
Anyway, Ross, good luck trying to get those coil spring pads made on your knee mill. Clayton uses a CNC for something like that, you arn't going to be able to get those pretty curves on a manual mill without some high dollar tooling.

Like I mentioned before, get a good 6" - 8" vise (no angle junk). Then make or buy a sine plate (not a vise, a plate). After that if you feel the need to make those fancy buckets get a rotary table.
Of course somewhere in there you'll need things such as collets, end mills, v-blocks, flange and coupling nuts, t-slots etc.

Agreed on the mill. Unless you get some good quality, strong servos and feed the position sensor data back in, along with a 2 or 3 axis mill control board, you're going to be doing those curves by hand... a lot less fun than G code when you gotta step around a few thousandths at a time in each direction Friend of mine is working on setting something like this up, but he's using step motors that weigh like 2lb, a mill with ~4-6" on each axis, and running open loop with a control board that cost 80 bucks on ebay and a laptop running a hacked up realtime linux kernel. It'd take a lot of work to adapt it to a real mill.

Agreed. While nice, I don't see the point of spending the coin on them, nor the effort to make them.
Get something that will secure the bottom of the coil like Rob mentioned and be done with it.


Now I'm off to play in the snow with the wife and dog.

Not gonna lie, if I had a CNC mill I'd be making all sorts of bling stuff just for the hell of it, not because I actually needed it. As it is, welded together bar stock, tubing/pipe, and sheetmetal better be good enough

EDIT: I just bought a pretty massive quantity of beer for saturday...

 

[ROBZ95Xj]

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today at work was great, had a pipe on the dish machine gush out water, we couldnt wait for the hobart guy to come so we temp fixed it with towels rubber gloves and duct tape, tomorow should be great, we have a chef from spain over, for tomorow nite dinner were havin a bunch of spanish food and flamingo dancers(for those who dont know i work the the dinning commons at keene state)

 

[kastein]

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towels, rubber gloves, and duct tape... remind me to never let you fix my Jeeps :roflmao:

Actually, that sounds like a pretty decent temp fix, hope it holds together long enough.

 

[ROBZ95Xj]

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towels, rubber gloves, and duct tape... remind me to never let you fix my Jeeps :roflmao:

Actually, that sounds like a pretty decent temp fix, hope it holds together long enough.

we had to stop the machine as water was gushing again, when i left at 5 the hobart guy was there fixing it

 

[themangeraaad]

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Does anyone have a trailer I can borrow Saturday to Sunday?

 

[asp]

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http://pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=862421 these look like fun