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Post by jackrides on Aug 20, 2022 10:14:10 GMT -5
Reaming an installed valve guide is an old technique that worked well with black and white heads. Making a reamer takes extreme precision (I think) so buying the right size would be the thing to do. Likely any guide made for an aluminum head would have a larger expansion rate than the head so should stay in. Choice of personal challenge vs. time saving and $. good luck.
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Post by 90GTVert on Aug 20, 2022 10:42:19 GMT -5
Reaming an installed valve guide is an old technique that worked well with black and white heads. Making a reamer takes extreme precision (I think) so buying the right size would be the thing to do. Likely any guide made for an aluminum head would have a larger expansion rate than the head so should stay in. Choice of personal challenge vs. time saving and $. good luck. The head was ordered before I posted yesterday. I've got enough of a challenge ATM trying to figure out my carb and why my regulators are acting funny on T2. The only thing I want out of the mower job is to get it out of the garage and hopefully working longer. I made a reamer once before. A really simple design that used a modified crank pin as the cutter. That was before I had a lathe and I just got really lucky that the OD was what I needed. I pressed in a rod and straightened it out before welding it together. The project (trying to save my gearbox after running with no oil) was a fail, but the reamer cut a hole to the desired diameter. I don't think it would be as "easy" for cutting a steel valve guide.
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 20, 2022 14:38:41 GMT -5
Nice work!
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 21, 2022 12:34:13 GMT -5
Got some gas can vents today. Getting some new pour spouts tomorrow. Might just get a few gas cans fixed up, some were in bad shape. www.amazon.com/dp/B08YJDKCCMThey are just brass valve stems without valve cores. I am only using one O-ring, so I am saving the outside O-ring for replacements. The inner O-ring is the real sealing surface. -Not that I don't have assorted O-ring kits in my hardware drawers. The kit has nice stickers to remind me lefty-loosy and righty-tighty, and some nice looking valve stem caps. Regular valve stem caps will work if I lose them. I haven't lost the golf tee I have been using for a vent in one gas can for 10 years...
Now I just hope I can find some non-ethanol gasoline to fill a couple cans. I need to mix some Seafoam with some gas to clean out one mower's carb.
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Post by 90GTVert on Aug 22, 2022 23:25:14 GMT -5
I know what I'll be working on tomorrow. Checked the mail after dark. Some clown hit our mailbox again. It was taken out by a drunk driver last year. I don't think it can last more than 2 years without being hit. I suspect a watermelon hauler did it. We have trucks that tow 3 trailers for watermelons going by all day. With 3 trailers hooked together, they form a long wiggle worm destined to take things out. It used to be snow plows that would get it at least every other year. They haven't hit our mailbox in a long time so others had to take over I guess.
If it's done this time, I think I'm done making anything. I've been using black iron pipe with steel fins welded on the bottom area so it stays put well in just dirt. Tabs welded on for a number plate to mount. Hand made steel mailbox mount. Takes time to get together and paint and it's a little more expensive. The idea was that it would last a long time and look clean with just some repainting perhaps. Seems pointless at the rate that mailboxes are being wrecked for us and our neighbors now. I've done 2 so far and neither lasted long enough to need repainting.
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 23, 2022 12:44:03 GMT -5
Mine was hit a couple weeks ago but it just bent the latch. My post is made of old well casing pipe sections welded inside each other.
Giant 20 Ton boulders set on either side of a mailbox might work to protect it. I have seen others that use a post set well back from the road with a well armored mailbox on a long arm that just swings away if hit.
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Post by 90GTVert on Aug 23, 2022 14:53:12 GMT -5
Mine was hit a couple weeks ago but it just bent the latch. My post is made of old well casing pipe sections welded inside each other. Giant 20 Ton boulders set on either side of a mailbox might work to protect it. I have seen others that use a post set well back from the road with a well armored mailbox on a long arm that just swings away if hit. Too secure leaves you open to legal issues if someone gets hurt. It's also in a ditch that's hard to cut as-is so changing it around much would make every week tougher for me cutting grass. The door broke off when I tried to bend it back. Otherwise the post was just a little loose in the ground. Got a new mailbox and mounted it. Put some dirt around the base and stamped it down. Good enough. I did see something that I don't really recall seeing first hand before. When getting a couple of shovelfuls of dirt, I found snake eggs. Didn't even realize what they were at first. I think I accidentally got about 3 of them with the shovel and there were definitely snakes in there. Black snakes I guess. I don't like snakes, but I wouldn't have killed them had I known. The wasps came out again when I tried to get into the shed to get a shovel. About 10 of them this time. OK. Enough. Sprayed them with wasp spray. I tried to leave them alone even after getting stung last time, but I needed to get work done and not stand around waiting for a swarm of wasps to calm down whenever I need to go in or out.
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Post by milly on Sept 10, 2022 11:22:45 GMT -5
Today I worked on saying no but ended up saying yes. I retire next week on Sunday 18th at 66. I thought I would slow down a bit with schools which will happen in January. Anyhow my uncle always said "There's no such thing as a free lunch boy". Today I went into the cafe my son's taken over and met his business partner who he gone in with. We not spoken much as she always busy cooking but today she said have a coffee on me and sit over there and sat down and chatted and said have lunch on me and while waiting said this table very wobbly and then asked what I thought of some chairs that needed minor work and what did the table need. I pointed out and she carried on chatting. Now I have a blocked ear and find it hard to hear sometimes and this lady has a thick Guatemalan accent and I said yes and all of a sudden she smiled and said thank you. Confused me a bit my son then came over and said I had excepted the job of the cafe handyman repairing what ever needs doing. She came back I am damn sure her accent wasn't so heavy as before. I wonder if they hadn't planned it beforehand 🤔
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Post by FrankenMech on Sept 10, 2022 11:28:56 GMT -5
Don't ever trust a smiling woman... LOL
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Post by milly on Sept 10, 2022 13:50:43 GMT -5
Don't ever trust a smiling woman... LOL Indeed FrankenMech ☺️
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Post by milly on Sept 29, 2022 12:47:56 GMT -5
Took friend to a meeting in wheelchair managed a few paces. Drs reckons be 2 yrs before she walks again after surgery but she already trying. She showed me the X rays
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Post by FrankenMech on Sept 29, 2022 17:50:20 GMT -5
Worked on a 30" Craftsman 110 mower, same as a TB30R. They have crappy steering that wears out quickly since nobody seems to lube them. Of course I am making some changes and installing a 7/16" bushing and two grease zerks. I hope that will make the steering work longer. I am also installing a manual fuel shut off valve and an oil drain hose. The switch was mostly destroyed when someone lost the key so I am installing a new one and removing most of the interlocks that cause nothing but trouble. I am leaving the seat switch and brake switch for safety.
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Post by milly on Nov 12, 2022 12:55:45 GMT -5
Today had to clear my junk out the garage across the road to make way for 3 suburu's now mechanic's taken over it. I still have a key so still able to use it but Wez likes order not chaos🙂 It's given me a kick up the arse to sort out stuff to put on eBay or chuck/store for future use. My scooter lift is stored and tool and parts trolley out the way now and have a space to use it I am now stretched out with a hot water bottle on my lower back.
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Post by 90GTVert on Nov 21, 2022 0:42:44 GMT -5
Been trying to get the garage doors insulated. Last part of the garage with no insulation. I was hoping it would make traffic noise significantly quieter, but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to do much there. Big rigs and glass packs near a 50MPH road is a lot to silence.
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Post by FrankenMech on Nov 21, 2022 13:23:42 GMT -5
It takes a lot of special construction techniques to soundproof a room. Anything solid like 2x4s and ribs between door panels can transmit sound vibrations. On the other hand, it may help keep the garage temperature a little better
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