Fabricated rear PTO guard

dcyrilc · Jan 13, 2011

4shorts said:
Here you go buddy. I also scanned the packaging for you and got a close up of that tank you mentioned.

That's cheating in a big way.

I'll have to find something which needs tapped and show you how it's really done.:laughing:

4shorts · Jan 14, 2011

varmint said:
Thanks, Paul. I should have realized how you use the tap aid. I used to use lathes a bit, back in the 60's mostly, when my dad ran an aircraft maintenaince facility that had a nicely equipped, although WWII era, machine shop. Got to go in on evenings and weekends and play with stuff. Had some fun with making stuff out of aluminum sheet, also.
I'd like to have a lathe, but don't really need one, and various tooling bits and pieces would bankrupt me. Oh, and a milling machine, while I'm at it.[/QUOTE

Your very welcome. Man your a guy who deserves a lathe and the tools you mentioned, You got some great history and great memories because of them.
I've never had any formal training in welding or machining. I might even be doing it all wrong but I'm having fun doing it.
25 years ago I had a few extra dollars to go buy a brand new Honda Big Red. Oh man I wanted that big some bad but as I was leaving the house my brother stopped by telling me about a lathe he had seen for sale and he would love to have it but it was the wrong time for him. Well I decided to go look at it and ended up buying it. It took all my Big Red money and a few bucks more. I never even knew how to plug it in but eventually started to figure it out and it's been a Hugh assist for me and later for my business.
I never ever got a Big Red

dcyrilc said:

That's cheating in a big way. I'll have to find something which needs tapped and show you how it's really done.:laughing:

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That's not cheating. It's making life easier

Mark @ Everlast · Jan 15, 2011

Another quality job. IF I could afford an Edwards, I would buy one. They are well( if not the best) priced. I have an eye on an old Scotchman though a friend has converted to single phase...and really doesn't have use for. Its amazing how well that Edwards works. Its one of the best kept secrets.

4shorts · Jan 15, 2011

Mark @ Everlast said:
Another quality job. IF I could afford an Edwards, I would buy one. They are well( if not the best) priced. I have an eye on an old Scotchman though a friend has converted to single phase...and really doesn't have use for. Its amazing how well that Edwards works. Its one of the best kept secrets.

Thanks Mark. Out of all the tooling I placed in the shop in 2010 the Edwards Ironworkers was far the best in my opinion. I've done work with it for customers that when the work was completed the customer thought the item was ordered in and not made in the shop so that in it's self is very rewarding.
The initial cost of the ironworker is very reasonable but like everything else when you go for the accessories you pay the piper. If I had to do it all over again I wouldn't change a thing and still get the same Ironworker I have now. Since this Ironworked came in the shop I haven't used the chop saw and I only use the plasma for items to big to for the Ironworker. Thanks for posting Mark :thumbsup:

dcyrilc · Jan 15, 2011

4shorts said:
............ and I only use the plasma for items to big to for the Ironworker. Thanks for posting Mark :thumbsup:

I have to call foul on that Paul. I saw you use the plasma for cutting out the area where the latch goes on your storage box.

Of course, I'm not sure there is any way anyone could have done it with the ironworker. Then again, you're not just anyone.:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Mark @ Everlast · Jan 15, 2011

Do you have a tubing cutter? I know that there are some ironworkers out there that can do it. I can't remember if it has that attatchment available or not....but in my line of sidework, that would be my #1 cut.

4shorts · Jan 15, 2011

dcyrilc said:
I have to call foul on that Paul. I saw you use the plasma for cutting out the area where the latch goes on your storage box.

Of course, I'm not sure there is any way anyone could have done it with the ironworker. Then again, you're not just anyone.:laughing::laughing::laughing:

No foul. I couldn't get the storage box in the ironworker at that point so I used the plasma

Mark @ Everlast said:
Do you have a tubing cutter? I know that there are some ironworkers out there that can do it. I can't remember if it has that attatchment available or not....but in my line of sidework, that would be my #1 cut.

Mark I'm not sure if there's a dedicated tubing cutter available for the Edwards. I know there is a notcher and a channel cutter for it. There is also a attachment to cut 1" square stock if you want to build picket fences. I never got those attachments because I seldom work with pipe and if I do I have a Bench notcher and various cutters.