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[graydog111]

Thanks for the information, bmaverick.

 

[Scooter78]

Another great hand cleaner is the snap-on brand. A mechanic buddy of mine got me the small bottle for a x-Mas present a couple years ago. I loved it so much got him to order two of the big bottles and the wall dispenser. I also try to keep small bottle on truck durning bushhog season.

 

[torrin]

Good morning;

Some great ides here. I'm cheeeeeeep so I make what I can, and buy the best when I have to buy.

No pictures, (I don't even know where they are now, but I made my self some inside and outside calipers for lathe turning of wood. The ones the size i needed were very expensive.

I started with 1/4" cold rolled rod. Lathe tapered the ends to a reasonable point. Bent the outside form over a 6" soil pipe. Bent the inside form with a railroad track chunk anvil. Heated and flattened the ends opposite the points. Drilled the flats and inserted a 1/4" -20 bolt with a star washer and wing nut.

After some tweaking to match the points, they worked great.

As my description said, I make it or make do. I wanted to buy a 55lb. anvil, but have by a railroad repair yard and talk to the maintenance foreman. Ended up with a 24" piece of railroad track. Rounde on top flat on the bottom, makes a great anvil. Just don't kick it or drop it on your toes. (two broken toes during spring garage cleaning)

 

[pmsmechanic]

Enjoyed this thread. Just wanted to mention that the best hand cleaner I've found is from John Deere. The green stuff made with soybean oil. Works awesome with NO grit to kill your hands.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Ya but Goop just works.. Petroleum product.

 

[downsizingnow48]

We had a railroad track anvil growing up worked great now where did it get off to!

 

[forgeblast]

Made an outdoor shave horse/riving stand. I do a lot of carving and will be getting into chairs/rockers this summer. Peeling and shaving is sometimes hard on my back when doing it for hours at a time. I saw plans/picture that someone posted and made a working model. The post is 32'' off the ground, and the metal used for the step and arm is 1/4'' I want to put a piece of pipe insulation on the arm to keep it from marring the wood.

 

[forgeblast]

Made an outdoor shave horse/riving stand. I do a lot of carving and will be getting into chairs/rockers this summer. Peeling and shaving is sometimes hard on my back when doing it for hours at a time. I saw plans/picture that someone posted and made a working model. The post is 32'' off the ground, and the metal used for the step and arm is 1/4'' I want to put a piece of pipe insulation on the arm to keep it from marring the wood.

 

[PhysAssist]

I have my eyes on a section of rail that appears to have been abandoned next to a track locally. it looks to be 12'+ long, and has been laying there rusting for nigh on 2 years.

Does anyone have any idea about how much that long a piece of RR track would weigh in at?

I'm wracking my pea brain trying to figure out how to get it home in my pickup's 8' bed, with a near rusted out (and therefore unreliable for weightbearing) tail gate.

My HF truck crane and some nylon straps would prolly pick at least an end of it up and swing it in, but the overhang kinda scares me.

I don't want to end up as an object lesson on our current "pictures of people hauling or towing something wrong" thread...

Thomas

PS: I have thought about making or buying a truck bed extender outrigger that attaches into the trailer hitch box, but I'm worried about the weight limit on them. It extends 3' and is rated at 350#.

 

[jwmorris]

I bet it still belongs to the rail road. Kind of like if you had a classic car sitting in your yard that you hadn't touched in 2 years or more, I would still be stealing it if I stopped by one day and took it.