So now you know what to get the wife for christmas

[karmakanic]

Heck, I've always thought bearings are beautiful.

But what I found most interesting about this story is that a grown man, intelligent and educated, did not know what a roller bearing was.

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/bob/greene.html>Roller bearing jewelry</A>

 

[njrqs]

Gee even WE know who timken are and what they make?

In fact at "Soveriegn Hill" a gold rush museum in Ballarat in Victoria, they had a wheelright (sp) and he showed me some old roller bearing setups used in horse and carts. These dated back a fair way but were Timken so I assume they (Timken) have been around for A LONG TIME !!

Cheers

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Morning Dave,

I was thinking of you last night. I filled a three foot piece of two inch (2 3/8) schedule forty pipe with blasting sand, capped it, and welded on another piece of inch and a half for a handle. I put the puppy into the forge and let it get orange. Pulled it out and while it was hot attempted to wrap it around a stub. I ended up with a twelve inch diameter U that wasn't deformed, just hot.

My wife had stopped by the shop on her way home from work. She got there just after I'd looped it. I was still standing there admiring the piece. She wanted to know why I 'd done that. She just couldn't understand which part of "cause" that was important enough to crank up the forge on a ninety something degree day.

I'll take the camera down to the shop today and maybe get a chance to get you a picture so you can put it in your mind for future reference.

BTW with your equipment you don't need a forge. If you have a dyno stand for testing motors a small block at six grand will get a piece of pipe orange in no time. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[karmakanic]

Hi harv,

Thank you kindly for thinking of me. I appreciate you taking the time to show some of your tricks to a weekend warrior.
Many years of learning how NOT to do it are needed to learn how to do it, and we all appreciate that you pass on your valuable lessons.

So yeah, show me the pics of that bent pipe. I guess the sand is the key, I've heard of it used for mild tubing, but never thought of using it with the forge for heavier stuff. Say, when you uncapped the pipe did it seem like there less sand or more then when the pipe was straight? i.e., did the pipe stretch more then it shrunk, or did it shrink more than stretched?

We'll have to use something other then a dyno to heat up the pipes. No dyno in my shop, and one of the few machines I don't lust for. My go fast days are long gone, and I don't miss'em.

Sincerely,
Dave

 

[wroughtn_harv]

<font color=blue>Say, when you uncapped the pipe did it seem like there less sand or more then when the pipe was straight? i.e., did the pipe stretch more then it shrunk, or did it shrink more than stretched?</font color=blue>

Yes. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Actually there was less and at one end where it wasn't totally hot it collapsed a bit. I hadn't thought about whether it had stretched but it does make sense.

Man if'n I was a smart as you with the questions I wouldn't have near as many burns and owies.

<font color=blue>My go fast days are long gone, and I don't miss'em.</font color=blue>

I don't really think all mine have come around yet. Now I won't get on a bike. It's sorta like a junkie popping a pill. I understand that I can't be doing that. But the sound of a healthy motor winding will spin my head and send the pulse chasing real quick like.

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color=blue>"Now I won't get on a bike"</font color=blue>

Harv, you're missing one of life's great joys. Even in northern Indiana I have ridden at least one day in each calender month but one for years now. I'll admit some of the rides have been short and brisk, but I wouldn't trade them for anything. There's something special about being out on a bike when everyone else is waiting for that next big snow

 

[Ozarker]

You haven't ridden until you open one up on the Autoban.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Evening Jim,

Fun on a bike is third gear, about sixty or seventy mph's in a dust cloud so thick that all you can see is the helmet of the rider fifteen feet in front of you. You concentrate on that helmet because you know that whatever happens to it is instantly going to happen to you. And you know you're in wide open desert with rocks and cactus etc. But it's a ninety minute moto with half of it open desert and the other half of the nine mile loop through town. You're amongst three hundred other riders on 125's to open class. You happen to be lucky and am on a Yamaha 465 with a whole nother kind of attitude.

Now that's fun./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

I have only been on two bikes on the street since I was in my thirties. One was a twelve hundred Sportster that a bud had just bought and brought over to let me try it out. It was okay but no big bore two stroke with an attitude.

The other was wannbeesoninlaw's 996 Superhawk. That was a toot in the shorts and a real grin generator. I ran it to Home Depot and as I leaned into the turn into the parking lot my big old boots down shifted it when I really didn't want to.

Needless to say the rearend came around and instinctively I caught it with the throttle which meant big time wheely. Caught that and straightened her out on the way down just in time to idle up to the garden department where two young men stood there eyes wide open in awe.

The look on their faces when they saw that silver beard come out from under that helmet was priceless. If they'd only known /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif. The pulse was probably just shy of three hundred beats per second cause the heart was in my boots and my pants was almost not dry. And once again I was thanking my lucky stars for being lucky and not good. Anyone can be good. That just takes effort. But luck?

If I was younger and the memories not quite so bright about the falling, I'd have me of them Superhawks. I do like that zip. Puppy at about four hundred pounds and a hundred and twenty five horses has the power to weight ratio just about perfect.