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Jesus I think you've gotten more done in the first page of this thread than I have in the last 20 pages of mine.
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I'm curious what one-off rotary broaching and EDM spline cutting like that costs, as I may need several similar parts done in the near future for a gearbox project I'm working on.
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bird cooch posted:So all this stuff was done in batches. The bolts were literally produced by a friend on borrowed machines so the price was beer. He's a mech engineer and wanted to learn how to do it. The quote I got for a run of bolts was really high. Like 20-50$ per with a minimum run of 100. I have had great luck in the past walking into industrial repair machine shops and getting stuff done for beer. Those guys tool up for weird jobs a half dozen times a day. It cost 3-4k in tooling just to make those bolts with free machine access. Special thread micrometers, the very fine thread roller was pretty expensive and the rotary brooch itself. Plus incidentals. Ahhh, didn't realize you were horse trading for this kind of work. I'll let you know once the parts arrive and I can measure the splines, I don't have any solid info to provide for a quote at the moment. If they're too busy feel free to just drop it, I don't wanna waste anyone's time.
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Dec 14, 2020 21:43
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Just build an Appalachian-American ginpole crane for your truck, easy
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Dec 17, 2020 02:42
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You can't just cut a couple pieces of heavy angle iron and weld them into a brake die set the right width for just that bend, and use them in a press? I'd do that before I redid all the work.
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Oh boy I love a good shitbox 3000 run. Wonder if you can get that dipstick out by drilling a pilot hole, heating a drywall screw red hot, screwing it in fast before it cools, and then using a claw hammer or maybe a prybar to gingerly pull it out. I've had that work before, though never tried it on such a crusty mess, most of my crusty messes are old enough to have metal dipsticks.
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Feb 2, 2021 03:34
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 absolutely not, my buddy Dan got me that like 4? 6? 8? Years ago now and I haven't bothered to change it. I do not like ridgelines, so I'm going to enjoy your sawzall posts on this one.
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Feb 2, 2021 04:36
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How goes the drive? Hopefully none of the important bits have fallen off? 
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Feb 12, 2021 02:52
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Wow! Well, glad you made it home in one piece mostly. I wish it was the car that lost pieces to this journey not you.
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bird cooch posted:Just bully Ted Cruz in any way you can. Don't threaten me with a good time like this
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