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Old Jun 28, 2019 | 08:55 PM
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things you do when you're bored.. :)




I found this in a pile of parts, it apparently from a 51 Mercury flat head, possibly from a car. Had nothing to do so thought I'd see how well it might clean up
I'm still every now and then work on the nooks and cranny's if the feeling comes over me.. so far this is how it looks


 
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Whens that new truck coming John ?
 
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Old Jun 28, 2019 | 09:32 PM
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Not sure yet Ted but was talking with him a couple days ago, pretty sure it will be mine..
 
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Do you work on it when your bored? or is that one of those things you do as "task avoidance" to get out of doing some other dreaded chore?

Either way, the results are great. That manifold is polishing up nice

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Maybe a stupid question, what is this machine surface for?
 
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It's where the choke control is bolted to for the carburetor pictured. If I understood correctly Ross said it gets blocked off if a different Carburetor is used..
 
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Do you work on it when your bored? or is that one of those things you do as "task avoidance" to get out of doing some other dreaded chore?

Either way, the results are great. That manifold is polishing up nice

Bobby
To be honest it was avoidance keeping me away from doing some work under the house in the crawl space and on a few of the days it was raining..lol
 
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