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ryanrs posted:It's not really about the cup holder, it's about designing and making the thing. I've wanted to do a plywood tab and slot project for a while, and there aren't many places to do carpentry on a car (morgans excepted). So the cup holder carpentry was a nice opportunity, but Putin hosed it all up. oh for a second I thought that was a UPS shipping update 
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Feb 15, 2023 12:19
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Off road minivan: your parts are being bent It works on many levels.
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honda whisperer posted:Off road minivan: your parts are being bent
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honda whisperer posted:Off road minivan: your parts are being bent And the van is a lot less likely to catch on fire since I've replaced the leaking steering rack.
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honda whisperer posted:Off road minivan: your parts are being bent LOL
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Feb 15, 2023 23:48
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Vanity A/C Block Plate The welded A/C refrigerant line kept leaking, even after attempted repair, so I'm replacing it with a custom block plate machined from billet. The mating connector has an o-ring that seals against the cavity ID.  
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Recovery Points Arrived       The fit is absolutely perfect. I will do the welding this weekend. honda whisperer posted:Off road minivan: Your parts are being bent 
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Your parts have been bent.
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Electro Plating Specialties, Inc. 560 ~$ curl -I http://www.eps-plating.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: openresty/1.19.9.1 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 02:47:25 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 48495 Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding Last-Modified: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:18:27 GMT ETag: "bd6f-54b295cd8aec0" X-Webcom-Cache-Status: BYPASS Accept-Ranges: bytes Should I use this local vendor for my metal plating needs, y/n?
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Feb 18, 2023 03:57
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Dude how could you consider anyone else?  
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slightly sus tbh
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Feb 18, 2023 04:08
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I mean still in business with that website? Probably really good at it.
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Feb 18, 2023 04:13
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Those kind of companies you want to work for inversely proportional to the quality of their webpage. If they don't need to attract customers through their webpage, it means they are doing something right. My old company had a webpage like that, then it got all fancy and new right before I was laid off. Next company also had a garbage website and im still there 13 years later. This method of analysis doesn't have any warranties about using them as a business though, it could just be a hobby and they don't care.
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Feb 18, 2023 04:32
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I bet it loads fast.
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ryanrs posted:Electro Plating Specialties, Inc. Oh yeah, this is your place.
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Feb 18, 2023 04:38
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ryanrs posted:slightly sus tbh I have complete confidence that their equipment postdates the Renaissance.
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OK, vendor chosen! I will email them an RFQ once the welding is complete. I want to plate the recovery points to ASTM B633 type VI (yellow zinc like on grade 8 bolts, etc). These parts will definitely get scraped up, and I want to minimize rusting. Zinc electroplating ought to be enough to keep it looking great in the SF Bay Area. I did consider hot dip galvanizing, but I think I'd need to heat treat (stress relieve) the part before galvanizing or else it might crack along the 90 degree bend because of strain-age embrittlement.
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Platystemon posted:I have complete confidence that their equipment postdates the Renaissance. This 100% nothing they use is newer then 1950.
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Elephanthead posted:This 100% nothing they use is newer then 1950.  Google Street View confirms. e: blindjoe posted:This method of analysis doesn't have any warranties about using them as a business though, it could just be a hobby and they don't care. Ah, but check out the landscaping. ryanrs fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Feb 18, 2023 |
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My rule of thumb is if "investor relations" and "news and insights" and other lofty c-level bullshit filler come before a place where I can look up their actual services or products in a useful manner, I'm going to look at other vendors first. That website passes both the vibe and Firefox 1.5.22 beta release test (56k yes.) Edit: holy poo poo, this website loads faster than any I've seen in the last ten years, except for mine. I don't worship at the church of geocities GIFs like they do. kastein fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Feb 18, 2023 |
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Feb 18, 2023 05:23
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ryanrs posted:OK, vendor chosen! I will email them an RFQ once the welding is complete. I'd be interested to know if anyone does hot dip in California. It seems to be tightly regulated everywhere else.
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Pacific Galvanizing is in Oakland. There are others in the central valley, and a lot in southern CA. I think galvanizing kettles are probably like cement plants, in that you can't have an industrial metropolis without them. Especially not one with shipbuilding.
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Welding the Recovery Points Beveled edges for more penetration          I'll take them to the platers on Tuesday.
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New Bump Stops Rear bump stops looking slightly worn!   Step 1, design an octagonal 62mm wrench. Getting this laser-cut was cheaper than the cheapest wrench on Amazon that could grab a 62mm nut. It's cut from 1/4" AR500, so it's very hard and strong, not mushy mild steel. Square drive dimensions for Socket Tools. I used a 0.505 in square holes with 1mm corner radius, and the fit is great. With 1/4" material, the ball detent even works OK.   Done.
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Installing the A/C Block Plate Old vs. New.    
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R for Ryan? Refrigerant? Team Rocket...?
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Just 'Ryan'. CNC A/C plate cost breakdown: $130 base part +65 add the 'R' +25 anodize red +40 expedite fee during Chinese Lunar New Year +20 shipping +20 tax ---------------- = $300 Goddamn, it better not leak.
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ryanrs posted:Just 'Ryan'. I assumed it was Rear, for the rear A/C.
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So, not to rub salt into the wound...  ... and that's in Canadian Copecs, so likely cheaper in the land down south. E: yes, says town and country, but I'm sure it either fits because these connections are standardized, or with enough sleuthing you can find the appropriate kit. Bajaha fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Feb 21, 2023 |
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I already went down that path. None of the Sienna kits block the pipe up in the engine bay. They all block the pipe near the rear evaporator coil, because it has easier access and that's the part that generally breaks / starts leaking. So the progression was: 1) Commercial Sienna A/C block kit. One plate was useful, the other didn't fit the connector in the engine bay. 2) Have a professional welder weld up the connector on the deleted tubing. Weld leaked slightly due to porosity. 3) Have professional welder repair his poo poo. Same problem. 4) Design my own plate and have it CNCed out of 6061 and anodized red. Then add in costs of replacing the A/C drier and recharging the system after each step. I'm doing it for the 3rd time on Wednesday. Designing my own CNC block plate was the nuclear option, but it wasn't entirely unjustified.
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Knew about the welder but not the commercial kit unavailability. That said, there's no kill like overkill and with how many times you've had the AC charged it's at least nice to just throw a big middle finger at it and be done with it (hopefully forever)
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Floor Jack Maintenance   Floor jack had a sticky piston. Once you remove the handle stop and push the handle fully forward, you can just pull out the pistons. There is no retainer or snap ring. Then use brake cleaner to blast any crud off the pistons and o-rings, wipe down the springs and cylinder bore with a paper towel, oil the o-rings with your finger, and reassemble. The whole operation takes less than five minutes. Lug Nuts and Wheel Studs    Several lug nuts were pretty stiff to turn. Not cross threaded, but some minor thread dings. I replaced all the lug nuts, which fixed most of the problems, but two studs needed further repair. I used a thread repair die to clean up the studs, but it took a fair amount of material off. The rethreaded studs are definitely a looser fit class than before. Don't use a repair die to clean up minor rust or dirt that can be removed with e.g. a metal brush. Antenna  The old one was bent up from using it to break into the van when I locked my keys inside. I bent it into a hook and used it with a door wedge I whittled from firewood.
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ryanrs posted:
Wish I'd thought of this on prom night in 2004 when I locked my keys in my Sienna.
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ryanrs posted:Just 'Ryan'. If it does PM me. I'll have to charge for red but black can be free if it goes with another shipment to anodize.
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honda whisperer posted:If it does PM me. I'll have to charge for red but black can be free if it goes with another shipment to anodize. Thanks, but this new block plate is hermetic AF. No leaks. This week has me finishing up a bunch of misc maintenance items while I procrastinate on the two big ticket items I need to finish: the bear radar and a gas tank skid plate. Here's the main skid plate before/after two weeks in the desert:   You can see the boundary where I added the second layer of 3/16" steel on the back side. But the single layer 3/16" steel still bends right around the seam, and that will probably be true no matter what reinforcements I weld on the back. Mild steel is just low yield strength mush, and not appropriate for this application. I need to start making my skid plates out of AR400, A514, or some other high strength steel. Mild steel is not good enough.
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Paint Repaint the skid plates that were stripped clean at Ocotillo. Zinc paint where the plates overlap, and green self-etching primer on the rest.    
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UCAJwq4yIM&t=87s What are you preparing? You're always preparing! 
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That part is 5mm thick steel, which is generally sufficient to fend off the fedex man. I doubt Sendcutsend does their own plating, so they probably have to truck the parts to a metal plater, get it plated, ship it back for inspection, etc. So it takes a week+. For the gas tank skid plate, I'm leaning towards 3/16" A514 / T-1 high strength steel plate. It can be bent and welded, and it's much stronger than mild steel, and I can source it in small quantities (i.e. not by the railroad car). The downside is that I think it's thicker than it needs to be, which adds cost and weight. But A514 is not available thinner than 3/16". Another possibility is 0.160" 4130 chromoly. A514 is the structural steel used in all those truck frames that say "DO NOT WELD" on them.
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