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I've been thinking about my 18,000 mile 1990 F250, the dang thing has a 460 in it and I doubt I will use it much at 8 mpg. So I'm looking for some opinions.
1. Do I pull that 460 5 speed out and swap it with a 453 Detroit and a Allison automatic?
2. Park it and plug up the shop?
3. Sell it to someone who would love it and appreciate it for what it is? (Any offers?)
So are you done hauling a camper? For all the messing around it would take to change it, buying a few more gallons of gas isn't that bad! There is always someone out there looking for big trucks like that around here but that doesn't help you too much way out there.
Happy Hump Day Washington, Tim, Buzz, Ken, Steve and all the crew.
I have had a week of unplanned day and I am getting tired of them thanks to the Stomach Bug!!
Hope everyone has a great day as the Humper and not the Humpy!
The machine shop is just for fun. That handle would have been much faster to print on the 3D printer and just do a couple of metal inserts. I wanted the challenge of making it on my manual mill with a rotary table.
We had a little wind last night, it's calm this morning and 40°.
Here's what I was working on yesterday.
Great mental exercise to keep your focus skills in shape. Always good to challenge yourself. And as long as the cat keeps approving your drawings it is all good.
Steve, I was wondering if anyone was going to comment on my CAD drawing. I posted it on the machining forum no one said a word about the cat approving the drawing. He's a real stickler for detail you know.
The handle looks great, Tim! That's got to be a lot of fun to make things like that. Machine work is an art I never had the opportunity to learn. Most of my custom creations were from the rock and club department.
Yes, cats can be particularly obsessive with details. I'm glad he approved.
Wondrous Weekend Eve and Merry March one Washington, Tim, Wayne, Ken and all the crew. Nice work on the handle and yes, I missed the where the drawing had been to the Cat Scanner! I was more interested in the actual drawings and dimensions!
I had never run a lathe and only a mill a long time ago for just a breve bit. After I retired in May of 2021 my wife and I bought the Lathe and Mill. I had been watching YouTube videos for a while, along with welding and making things since I was a kid, the machining thing came pretty easy.
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