Bike builders that have machine tools/shops

[Tom from Rubicon]

I know in composite experimental aircraft that hot wire sculpting structural foam is a go to method.
MT's method of sculpting compressible foam is one I would not considered to great a stink Steve points out.

Access to a band saw allows a alternative that I have had much experience with Knife edged band saw blades.

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

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Nice for clean cuts and no shredded material and certainly no fumes. Won't deny the riskiness. Uncoiling a blade was usually accompanied with curled toes. Was the bee's knees on polyethylene foam UPS safe packaging for computer touch screen monitors back in 1997. Opra had one
Tom

 

[MEASURE TWICE]

A compound cut and stiff shaped wire cuts, maybe it could match my butt. Could that be comfortable. Maybe the memory foam, though I did not buy that kind. Anyway I'd just be happy to not have nerves firing off and muscles freeze up. Once one hand had such that I stopped driving even though other hand was doing the steering. Fingers not in control and index was like 90 degree from others bent and fierce pain.

Mentioning unpacking a blade for bandsaw, yikes. Just the foam compressed incy wincy / biggy wiggy like on the cartoons was something. Full metal jacket you might want. Ask the razor ribbon installers?

 

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Went out after a while less smoke smell. Tried to avoid mosquitos. Once it was after sun set a while an cooled off more they were gone. It is ready to hook up wire and transformer and try out some test material. Historical facts: The angle bracket on the right was salvaged from 2015 Burning Man. The ashes cooled just some 3 days after it cooked, me an and some others picked through for souvenirs. On the left two angle brackets are connected together with the darker flat metal piece also from parts in the ashes.

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

Last ride of 2020 today I expect 72F. Well maybe not, but last year we had 10" of snow on the ground same day.
Huffy needs new engine mount. The BBR piece of cr#p needs to go away and make the Huffy Davidson a daily runner.
Got the heat at 60F in the shop and there it will stay. Leather gloves handling the machinery and also when I split kindling for the home wood stove.
Tom

 

[Greg58]

Tom that's one good thing about living here in Ga, I can ride every month of the year as long as I pick the days.

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

My niece and her Dr. husband moved to Atlanta, right at the head of hurricane season. Got a son in Moyock, NC, and he might be the only resident of the State that owns a snow thrower. Once a Northerner always a Northerner.
Tom

 

[Greg58]

My niece and her Dr. husband moved to Atlanta, right at the head of hurricane season. Got a son in Moyock, NC, and he might be the only resident of the State that owns a snow thrower. Once a Northerner always a Northerner.
Tom

I remember the company I worked for 20 years ago hired a new maintenance manager that moved here from Boston in the fall, around March the next year he called me to his office and asked me when it usually snowed. I told him that the dusting we had in January and February was probably all we would get, he then called his brother in Boston and told him to sell both of the snow blowers he had left at their moms house because he was never going to need them anymore!

 

[Greg58]

Wayne is still here in Georgia, he calls his brother on January 1 while out on his deck grilling steaks to rub it in that he can wear short sleeves, nothing like brotherly love.

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

I tell ya, Sunday before sundown, I grilled Newyork strip steaks ambient was 72F.
Came home from Milwaukee after Mona's med tests and it was 75 F. Gulf Stream we don't get this tine of year.
This time last year we had 10 inches of snow on the ground. Weather was so nice, but liming pines was a need to do.
Fun while it lasted. Wood shed is full. A wife who loves me. I can take Winter.
Tom

 

[carburetor al]

I tell ya, Sunday before sundown, I grilled Newyork strip steaks ambient was 72F.
Came home from Milwaukee after Mona's med tests and it was 75 F. Gulf Stream we don't get this tine of year.
This time last year we had 10 inches of snow on the ground. Weather was so nice, but liming pines was a need to do.
Fun while it lasted. Wood shed is full. A wife who loves me. I can take Winter.
Tom

 

[carburetor al]

Hi Tom
One of these days I would like to meet you. I,m in the county just to the east of you,named after a guy that was in the Revolutionary War.He became pretty famous.

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

Custom muscle bike stingray dragster - bicycles - by owner - bike sale

Custom built bicycle dragster. Built for display and shop advertising. 11.5 ‘ long great for...

seattle.craigslist.org

 

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Found use of Ford Model A Tranny and Harley Engine to do Mining. Small Railway for cave tunnel mining? Appreciate home made stuff!

https://www.facebook.com/wheelsthroughtime/photos/a.380217387900/10157862673922901

 

[EZL]

Found use of Ford Model A Tranny and Harley Engine to do Mining. Small Railway for cave tunnel mining? Appreciate home made stuff!

https://www.facebook.com/wheelsthroughtime/photos/a.380217387900/10157862673922901

Is this a heavy-duty rail bike! What a find and keep it original it is a museum piece and thanks!
Dennis

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

Hi Tom
One of these days I would like to meet you. I,m in the county just to the east of you,named after a guy that was in the Revolutionary War.He became pretty famous.

Hi Al, I reckon I have seen you riding East on Hwy60 in Hartford.

 

[MEASURE TWICE]

Is this a heavy-duty rail bike! What a find and keep it original it is a museum piece and thanks!
Dennis

That is what it looks like. I once went into a mining cave part of a commercial park. It was summer and ice was still covering a few inches of track with the rail cars left there for visitors. Tourist Trap Town. No lights in the mine and bring your own flash light at your own risk. Seemed like 50ft down a ladder from inside first section of cave where there was light.

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

Still waiting for a reply Al.
Tom

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

Is this your handy work Al?

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

Come on out Al, I can count MB riders in Hartford on one hand. Do you know Isaiah Alexander? He is the one got me started when we both worked a Steel Craft. Detective work, leave no log unrolled .
Tom

 

[Tom from Rubicon]

The cylinder already has the typical Chinese chrome plating. I dunno how long it will last, but for $25 Amazon will have another one here tomorrow. Why worry?

Hey Tom, I got these doo-dads in a box of mis-matched gauge blocks.

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Hard to see in the pic but they got the Ford logo on them. I don't know about anybody else but I never saw one of those in a Ford! But I did finally find a use for one. I mounted it up on my tool post, used it to find center first, and then backed the cross out the radius I needed to match the OD of my squish cut, and scribed a line. Worked good!

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Combustion chamber's next.

You mentioned 1-2-3 blocks the other day and I have a pair that appear to be shop made by a man named Mel.

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I never met the man but he made some damn fine blocks!

FOG, I am sure your parents named you well. Alot of us are just plain transparent. Any way another totally unrelated forum jogged my memory.
Last blue window on right side. Look familiar?
Gauge block - Wikipedia
Tom
Happy New Year