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My friends gorgeous 2018 F350 super duty diesel four-wheel-drive had issues where the front four-wheel-drive wouldn’t engage unless he got out and lock the hubs. He searched out the problem and found a failed vacuum line which pictures below will show. You’re looking at two vacuum lines. The one...

I decided to donate some of my labor to the project of restoring this boat. I’ll be doing some machine work on it. We’re also gonna fix some of the Mickey Mouse stuff on it and make it right. First pictures up are to help me identify this hull. i’ll be posting pictures as we go through the...

A little project the boys around the Shop got into.

I’m designing a couple of Ski Tow assemblies for a couple of Connolly’s. The customer wanted a main spool up on top of the pole and then what we call a mini spool that’s gonna ride down low on top of the hull to give different recreational ski people different pulling angles. I will post this...

These opposite hand brackets are some kind of bump stop for a big off-road jeep. I believe these bump stops are designed to use a rubber bumper to stop the suspension from going too far. The problem is the Jeep guys are bending these things and breaking parts so the answer is to convert to a...

I really want to go to Thailand!

I would love to take a Flatty over to Thailand and mix it up with these guys.

We got hired to design and produce a socket wrench for a plastic PVC threaded cap. The cap gets torqued to 30 foot pounds. Customer currently uses a rubber strap wrench to tighten the cap. The cap measures approximately 7 inches on the diameter. Customer supplied his own material which was cut...

This is a portable cart that has a big monitor on top of the pole. When the cart is being moved around, the monitor bounces around too much and the customer asked us to come up with a solution. So the handrail for the cart seems to be very sturdy and I used it as a base. The clamp is easily...

I used to weld a lot of these impellers before Covid hit. There are used in Canada, New Zealand, and United States in River racing. I believe the boats are aluminum hulls. These guys will hit 131 mph going upstream. Sometimes the water is shallow as 1 foot. These impellers are made of steel and...

So I have a customer that owns a really nice looking Connolly 21 RC but the cavitation hardware on the back of the boat is really old. So we sat down and talked and he told me about certain parts he wants to reuse and certain parts he wants to upgrade mainly going from anodized aluminum to...

So Lenmann over in the classic boat section, has been creating some pretty bad ass stuff. I really liked his dropforged, parting line, closet hook, transom blocks. So in keeping up with Lenmann, I had to come up with something different for a transom block. I called these blocks “D”blocks. In...

About 15 years ago I built a really Bitchin material rack for our shop. Before that, we would store material vertically in the corners of our shop. One corner for aluminum, one corner for steel, etc. Now that the shop floor space is becoming scarce, it’s time to take a second look at that...

I’ve been looking for one of these for a while now. Bought this one from a friend of mine. No tool changer, no enclosure, and no flood coolant. It has very low mileage. But it uses all my standard tooling and uses the same postprocessor as all my other machines. So basically it’s just a plug and...

This mold will form a sand core that creates a passage thru a sand casting during the pour. When the casting cools down, they knock the sand loose and pour it out the hole.

Using the 6030 as a CMM on a check fixture for a sand casting for a helicopter motor part. The fixture has been falsely accused of scrapping castings. After my inspection I have found there’s nothing wrong with the fixture and that there’s something wrong with the operator.

Shortening a steering link for a rock crawler. First I machine the pin to go inside the tube, then I drilled holes for plug welds, then I chamfered the edges the form the v-groove, and then tig welded it with multiple passes. The sanded spot in the middle of the tube is so that I could get a...

This is the first machine my wife and I purchased back in 1997. It’s 1993 6030 Fadal and we paid 100 K for it and paid it off in five years and it wasn’t easy. This is the machine that I do the V- drive parts on, and large tooling projects. The backlash settings in the Y axis are getting to be...

So my local motorcycle dealership took in a ninja 650 with front wheel damage. They ordered a new front wheel for the bike but it came in without the ABS hole pattern for the pick up ring. I machined a locating pin for the bearing ID. Then I used a gauge pin to clock the wheel to the three...

Some bypass tubes for these brass valves which apparently leak like a shooting range beer can and drip even after rebuilding. I think the boat is a “Kachina” or something like that.