by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 05/17/2017 at 20:48
by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 05/17/2017 at 20:48
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Bending to commence as soon as I pick it up and have it set up. (Currently at Summit Racing four hours away, will pick up Saturday).
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/17/2017 at 21:05, STARS: 0
Awesome!
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
05/17/2017 at 21:07, STARS: 0
As long as it comes on a pallet right?
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/17/2017 at 21:07, STARS: 0
Yep. With forklift assist.
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
05/17/2017 at 21:10, STARS: 1
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"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/17/2017 at 21:10, STARS: 1
This one . Rummy but crugged, err, crummy but rugged. Which is to say, meets minimums - 16GA capacity, 48" width, adjustable/pan finger configuration - and is not Hazard Fraught’s much smaller brake with weak cast frame and lower capacities, nor Northern Tool’s almost-this-good model.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/17/2017 at 21:13, STARS: 1
Summit’s personnel may or may not include surplus people named Ken, Ken, and Ken who may or may not be Wolf Raiders.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
05/17/2017 at 21:17, STARS: 1
New tool day is best day.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/17/2017 at 21:23, STARS: 0
The way I see it, even if I didn’t have to make a bunch of miscellaneous channels for the Ranchero and just needed to make trunk edge repair pieces for the Galaxie, a set of refit pieces for that is... wait for it... more than a sheet metal brake. A clear choice, IMO.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
05/17/2017 at 21:24, STARS: 0
Seriously? That’s insane! Yeah, a clear choice indeed.
"crowmolly" (crowmolly)
05/17/2017 at 21:26, STARS: 0
Thus continuing the trend of you always getting the cool toys. LOL.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
05/17/2017 at 21:30, STARS: 0
Nice. I’ve been thinking about getting Eastwood’s 24" model for the smaller stuff I usually do.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/17/2017 at 21:30, STARS: 1
Don’t get me wrong, the repair pieces are a nice set, very high quality stampings, but when they’re more metal than I need and retail for ~$740 for sides, front, back, and four corners (only sell as a set), and channel like I would otherwise need is not an off-the-shelf item at a hardware store, $733.99 (counting tax) is pretty attractive. Particularly since I’ve needed one a good number of times for projects already, need a brake to make some pieces for Land Rover doors, Ranchero roof pieces, probably some utility boxes, and more. Have been needing one for a while.
Considering a quality Tennsmith (what I would be getting if doing this professionally) is easily twice to three times that...
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/17/2017 at 21:34, STARS: 0
If I ever snap sufficiently to get a Packard with body issues all this shit will come in way handy. Hell, if I do any Kustom-ey things at all, which I already sort of am. Kind of seems like I need to build an oak rack at some point, though - for old-school oak panel die building like I’m some kind of Russian limo-building mofo.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/17/2017 at 21:35, STARS: 1
I considered the 30" HF shear+brake, but I really need to have 16/18GA and bigger sizes *just in case*.
"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
05/17/2017 at 21:58, STARS: 0
awesome! within the last few months I have acquired planishing hammer, portable bandsaw, and bead roller. the workshop is almost complete.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/17/2017 at 22:09, STARS: 0
I’ve not felt a great need for a planishing hammer yet, but I do have a (limited) bead roller. Portaband - not a bad tool, but I figure if I want one the pawn shop usually has a couple. The biggest thing I know I’m short of at the moment is a shrinker/stretcher set.
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
05/17/2017 at 22:31, STARS: 0
Very cool. I rented one to bend up some aluminum trim for my house. That’s when I learned the value of a quality brake. The rental wouldn’t clamp properly on one end and the material kept slipping. I only ruined a couple of pieces before catching on to what was wrong.
One day I hope to get a shop set up where I can put such fun tools to good use!
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/17/2017 at 22:48, STARS: 0
Trim brakes are all well and good, but bending anything over maybe 24GA aluminum and their mojo is spent. Once you start to get up to 20GA steel and beyond, the hardware starts to get exponentially pricier (and heavier).
I work somewhere that has a 10' long hydraulic brake with electronically controlled backstop and can bend up to 11GA material (1/8"!), but it’s a trial to set up for a range of different small pieces. Plus, needing to go in to my workplace. I needed my own.
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
05/18/2017 at 06:14, STARS: 0
I wish I knew more about and had more experience with fabrication. I admit to having some envy over here.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/18/2017 at 15:17, STARS: 0
Can I come over and use it?
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/18/2017 at 15:30, STARS: 0
Depends on what ye need. I’ll warrant this one won’t be a precision machine any finer than probably a sixteenth at best, but it should be a champ for folding up window channel and the like...
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/18/2017 at 16:18, STARS: 0
As well, I don’t think you live very close to me; I’m in the San Francisco Bay Area. But I’m jealous.
I just called Maaco about painting my van. $150 each to paint a door jamb. $3500+ if I do all of the prep. I think I will discover for myself whether or not I can lay on paint successfully.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/18/2017 at 16:32, STARS: 0
I’m quite far from close to you, to coin a phrase, but I *have* met Opponauts who were even further away... My only advice on paint would be not to expect perfection and merely to learn what you can and dive in, as the required grace and talent to get a good result are “more earned than learned”. If one tries to follow available instructions only as precisely as possible, with limited practice, sooner or later the combination of slower work and untrained “wrong” instincts will rise to the fore - meaning a risk of disaster. With luck, you’ll work fast, boldly, and “badly” enough to be mediocre, rather than with slow “good” technique and layered badly with “orangepeel”. As long as you relent from application quickly enough to avoid runs, you should be alright.
My father has been trying to perfect his technique for years, but often falls back on slow hand-work (meaning heavy paint and runs) or takes long enough in his process that the paint thickens in the gun and develops texture or settling issues. He’s improving, but one car or part at a time, and it’s slow progress. My younger brother has a steady, fluid hand - he gets the occasional run, but has had much better results within a shorter learning period due to simply being more aggressive with it.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/18/2017 at 17:34, STARS: 0
I could not have put it so eloquently, but that’s how I’d thought. I could spray it with $100 worth of rattle cans, or $500 worth of real automotive paint. And I’m aiming for a solid dark color and satin finish. Give it my best shot and see what happens.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/18/2017 at 17:37, STARS: 0
Like chess, the fundamentals are simple, the execution quite tricky - but even a bad gun finish will likely hold up better than rattle-can, simply because rattle-can is a compromise. Small droplet size, thin layers, and a tendency to have softer finish and long cure times with a lot of intra-layer oxidation and weirdness, and batch and blending issues from one can to the next.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/18/2017 at 17:39, STARS: 0
Also mechanical adhesion, I believe I’ve been told. Is a satin or matte finish actually more difficult to achieve?
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
05/18/2017 at 23:43, STARS: 0
Didn’t mean to ignore you, didn’t see this in notifications. A flat finish is easier to get smooth (as you’d see with a primer) because it’s forming a coarse outer surface and drying more quickly, a high gloss finish isn’t that hard because it flows readily and hides flaws... but a satin finish, being somewhere between the two, probably has some advantages and disadvantages of both. Most gloss will revert to a more satin finish through oxidizing if left unwaxed/unprotected (as with no clear coat) for a long time, but something that’s intended to go satin probably dries a bit faster than a normal gloss, which would prevent runs but give you headaches in feathering in multiple coats. Drying partially in the air, that sort of thing. It would also come along with some of the weaknesses of a flat in picking up more dust and grime and being sensitive to the effects of wear on appearance.
I’d tend to encourage ordinary gloss base coat, myself. If you had to have it satin, there’s probably a satin clear you can use on it.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/19/2017 at 02:19, STARS: 0
I suspect there may be very little that you do not know. At least of the important stuff...