Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Kyle, the inserts I used were turned from 7075 aluminum, really strong stuff. Once installed, the front edge of the insert must be drilled out to re-expose an oil passage that must be open to the bore that the cylinder head stud runs through. So once installed, I use another drill guide in the fixture to keep the drill at just the right angle to pick up the oil passage. Yea, royal PITA, but it's why dealers get upwards of $250 for making the repair. I have about $100 tied up in tooling and materials, and have already made that back helping out a few fellow riding buddies that had the same problem. This is the second one of my own bikes I've had to repair, both for the same upper front stud on the right side.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good Um.. Morning all, 74 now going to 76 with a 90% chance of heavy rain. Air is thick with humidity so it still feels hot. Got up this morning and fell asleep in my chair and when my wife got up I went back to bed until 8:00. Just installed the shop window ac unit in the boy's room getting ready for next week when they work on installing the HP. Have a larger one that I will put in our room until we get the HP up and going, then it will go in the garage. The guy is supposed to start Tue or Wed of next week.

LS, glad the fire changed direction, praying thing continue to go well for them and that it soon is out. Knee also.

Ron, praying everything is fine.

Don, praying for a smooth move and that you can find your _______ when you get there.

Kyle praying for you all and your daughter.

Thomas, praying for you and your well problems.

Drew, praying that your potato digging goes well and that you have a bumper crop.

Buppies, praying for your leg.

Have a great day. Ed

 

[Ed of all trades]

Kyle, the inserts I used were turned from 7075 aluminum, really strong stuff. Once installed, the front edge of the insert must be drilled out to re-expose an oil passage that must be open to the bore that the cylinder head stud runs through. So once installed, I use another drill guide in the fixture to keep the drill at just the right angle to pick up the oil passage. Yea, royal PITA, but it's why dealers get upwards of $250 for making the repair. I have about $100 tied up in tooling and materials, and have already made that back helping out a few fellow riding buddies that had the same problem. This is the second one of my own bikes I've had to repair, both for the same upper front stud on the right side.

RNG, what kind of mill and lathe do you have and what do you recommend for a guy to put in his garage and play and work on. Hope to be able to help out a few people and make a few $$$ to help finance tooling. Have my eye on a Clausing 8520 but don't know if the guy is going to sell and what price if he does. Ed

 

[toppop52]

That’s a good one Ed, I can’t find my———, or my ———, and I’ve been here 6.5 years! LOL

 

[daugen]

Ed and LS, your prayers must have helped! 1348 pounds of potatoes dug this morning, great bunch of helpers, including two young Mormons here on a mission, boy were they great guys.
I've dug three out of five rows, dug about 1500 pounds of potatoes so far, might be doing better than ten to one. Hoping for a ton, pretty sure we'll top that. .89 a pound in Food Lion.
Almost all the directors of the food bank came and helped, a nice bunch, though half were old and sitting in shade half way through, as expected. I had chairs ready for them....
Kudos to Mormon Elder Barnes for taking such great pictures with my camera.

Hot shower felt wonderful, back out to put things away but I am seriously done for today. Started at 6am.
I sure feel good though, perhaps just inside.

 

[sodamo]

66°F and another .4 inches rain.

Got our 2nd shot of the new shingles vac. Can’t say I had a great night, chills and headache.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[ronjhall]

Ed and LS, your prayers must have helped! 1348 pounds of potatoes dug this morning, great bunch of helpers, including two young Mormons here on a mission, boy were they great guys.
I've dug three out of five rows, dug about 1500 pounds of potatoes so far, might be doing better than ten to one. Hoping for a ton, pretty sure we'll top that. .89 a pound in Food Lion.
Almost all the directors of the food bank came and helped, a nice bunch, though half were old and sitting in shade half way through, as expected. I had chairs ready for them....
Kudos to Mormon Elder Barnes for taking such great pictures with my camera.

Hot shower felt wonderful, back out to put things away but I am seriously done for today. Started at 6am.
I sure feel good though, perhaps just inside.

Great pictures. Looks like the help was well worth the Hoagies.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, what kind of mill and lathe do you have and what do you recommend for a guy to put in his garage and play and work on. Hope to be able to help out a few people and make a few $$$ to help finance tooling. Have my eye on a Clausing 8520 but don't know if the guy is going to sell and what price if he does. Ed

It all depends on what you need to do with it, Ed. I have a '70s era no-name Taiwanese 13x40 lathe that I found on Craig's List being sold by a company that was going out of business. So far it's done everything I needed it to do, but the big plus was the huge amount of tooling and the DROs that came with it. I learned with my mill, that only came with one end mill and a vise, that tooling can cost more than the machine! The mill is a Lagun FT-1 with a 9x42 table, also set up with a pair of DROs. Lots of way wear and backlash in the drive screws, but it's easily worked around with the DROs. It came from a hobbyist that had upgraded to a very nice Bridgeport. Both my machines have 3 phase motors, and a rotary phase converter powers them. I found a used Baldor 7 HP 3 phase motor on Craig's List and a custom configured controller from American Rotary/Gentec, who were great to work with. The motor was $75 and it was another $450 for the controller and load center, not cheap but it opened a whole new world of opportunities for other 3 phase tools.

It also depends on how much space you have. The lathe and the mill take up about a third of a single car garage space, and believe me, once they're set up and leveled, you don't wanna have to move 'em again.:shocked:

With all the repairs I've been able to make using parts or tools made on the lathe and mill, I've probably paid for both tools and the phase converter stuff. But then most of my power tools came to me as Craig's List orphans that needed a lot of TLC, and I ride/drive older vehicles on which a person can actually do their own repairs.

Back to the Clausing, I wasn't familiar with one, and found an interesting thread that discusses pros and cons:
Opinions on Clausing 8520 Knee Mill?

Hope this helps!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning all. Our gravel yard is looking more like a duck pond this morning thanks to heavy overnight rain. Hope it stops soon as my wife is looking forward to visiting a private garden not far away that is letting people in to look around in return for a donation to charity. There are quite a few who do this, all listed in a little yellow book that is published each year.

LS, hope they can get the fire under control before it reaches your son's house.

I love and see the hard work put into those beautiful English gardens.

Oh no, he might go back and read about all the snakes. At least he was here the other night when whipper found a copperhead in the yard.

He might offer a huge sum for Whipper.

Neighbor got bit by copperhead last evening getting off his tractor while at his inlaws land. He said there were 2 of them. Spent the night in the ER. Was wearing crocs for shoes. He's not quite 30 years old and apparently not allergic to the venom. They gave him the full routine, but let him go early this morning. He said the nausea from the morphine was the worst until they gave him something for that.


RNG, that repair was not for the faint of heart. It intrigued me enough to google it and I found a nice write up, that suspiciously looked like maybe someone you know who did it on another website. I could easily see charging or paying $250 for the repair. Does that price include the disassembly and re-assembly? Or is that on top of everything?

We dug up about a bushel of white onions this morning while it was cooler. Also picked some yellow squash and tomatoes. We need rain desperately.

Prayers for all, and healing too. BEF, Ron, LS, and everyone else.

So many interesting lives you all lead. Pig roasts, sheep shearing, English gardens, copperhead dog, airheads, potato digging (remember the beverly hillbilly episode about the digging potato dance move?), volcanic eruptions, cold in the southern hemisphere already, photos of uncles growing 8' high corn, horsefly bites, harvesting golf balls,......feel free to add to the list.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, that repair was not for the faint of heart. It intrigued me enough to google it and I found a nice write up, that suspiciously looked like maybe someone you know who did it on another website. I could easily see charging or paying $250 for the repair. Does that price include the disassembly and re-assembly? Or is that on top of everything?

Not sure, but I believe it includes removing everything on that side down to the case, which took me about a half hour this time around. The pushrod tube seals under the cylinder harden and start leaking after five or so years, so it's not unusual to pull a cylinder to replace them, and no special tools (other than a torque wrench) are required, so a lot of owners do the work themselves. It took about an hour just to get the engine case hot enough to let go of the stud in the stripped threads. Started with a MAP gas torch, then air-acetylene, and finally a fairly large tip on the oxy-acetylene torch. About half way though I started to wonder just how much heat it would take, and finally at about 300F it started to come out. All that time I was looking at a fuel tank with about four gallons in it just a few inches above the stud, and reviewing where the garden hose and fire extinguisher were...

So many interesting lives you all lead.

Isn't that an ancient Chinese curse?:laughing: