Off Road SHO

I absolutely love big racks too! The only thing I like more than big racks is the ability to use a pallet jack under them. Almost all the things in my shop are on wheels or can be picked up with a pallet jack. If you take your bottommost supports and move them up, you can store heavy, seldom used tools, under the first shelf. Kind of like you've done with the saw. You can also mount some short flourescent shop lights on the underside of the first shelf if it's up around 7' and have a nice well lit work space; even though it looks like your shop is better lit than most. Nice shop, BTW. What do you do for a living? Mechanic work? Tom

Let me know if you need someone to take it over for you...Before you haul it home. Tom

Congrats Glen. I so wanted that but couldn't come up with the scratch and solution to the logistics. You got a heck of a head start there. Now if I can only find something like that closer to home. Good luck. Tom

Dang, It sold.

And what? He'll deliver it?! I wonder if all of that would fit in the back of a UHAul 3/4 ton truck? The cost of gas to drive all the way ther with my own truck would be huge. Tom

Boy oh boy, if I could only get that across the country cheap enough, I would make him an offer on that bad boy. Tom

PVC gets brittle when exposed to air and heat cycles, even though I've had one in my shop for 7 years no problem. Next one will be out of galvanized 3/4" on uni-strut to mount it away from the wall and ceiling. I will slant it towards one end where I will install a wiggle drain. I'll put the oil and particle separators near the compressor. I will drill and tap all along the 3/4" pipe so that I can install female quik-connect couplers. If I need an oiler, I will just insert it at the quick connect that feeds that tool. For my mills I will install foot valves that will blast the tool area with a quick blast without having to look for the coiled hose with the air chuck; though I will still have them available with my custom made tips made out of 12" of old brake hard line (keeps you from having to get so close to the flying debris). I will not use cheap chinese teflon tape but will splurge for the correct RectorSeal pipe dope. I will buy an auto drain for my compressor. Tom

So would he be a gun toe'dler then? Many props to him overcoming a tremendous handicap in a big way. Tom

That's a sequential box? Looks like a regular H pattern. Tom

Wow, very nice. Would you be interested in trading for The Other Woman? http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/rvs/2024079928.html Tom

Another Old Fart and...and...... What were we talking about? There's only one thing worse than my memory, but I can't remember what it is! Tom

No, that's the normal look of a Vespa rider. They look like that all the time, even when they're stopped at a light. Tom

Haha, I like the hand written note above the speedometer; Go Faster. Tom

Since the rotary folks like to call our piston engines "boingers", you could call yours noboing7 or boing free seven. Tom

Kitkat, can you explain why a new pump would give you lower pressures and not higher? Tom

Here is the Oregon Scientific action camera, but it has a monitor in the back that would give off a glow at night. http://www.oregonscientificstore.com/oregon_scientific/sf_sub.asp?mfgname=Oregon+Scientific&store=1&set=16_wcos And here is a bullet camera mounted on the roof rack of my buggy, but feeding into and being recorded on a normal Sony HandyCam behind the driver's seat. Here is the camera link: http://www.dinodirect.com/1-3-SONY-CCD-Color-420TVL-0-01Lux-CCTV-Wired-Bullet-Camera-CM-1830CW.html And here is a shot of it in action; it is rigidly mounted, with no cushioning whatsoever, to the roof rack. Tom

Dayum, that looked real. Tom

Ian, What do you have for an engine? I just can't imagine a car manufacturer making an oiling system where the pressure relief valve was always in bypass to some degree. I don't understand why they would do it. Anticipated wear of the rubbing parts? Tom

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Shimming the pressure relief spring (so that it is tighter) will only increase your oil pressure if the valve was actually bypassing oil at the time. Shimming doesn't increase oil pressure, it raises the point at which it opens and passes some of the oil back to the pan, bypassing the oil galleys all together. Let's say you are running flat out at 5000 rpm's and your oil pressure is 65 psi. It might be 65 at 5000 because that is the result of the pump's ability to push oil and the mechanical's ability to leak it out, or it might be that the pump's ability to push the oil exceeds the mechanical's ability to leak it and the relief spring is opening up another "leak" back into the pan. If you have low oil pressure at low rpm's it's not because of the pressure relief valve, which we should really call the OVER pressure relief valve, but because the pumps worn out or the mechanicals are and leak too much. Tom

As a subcontractor that has used concret coring companies a lot, I can see some new guy getting out to a site and realizing that he didn't bring the big blade for the slab sawing job, decided to McGiver it. It's a lot funnier though if you think it was someone's attempt to replicate a "change cloud". Tom

How about RUNVUS (Are you envious) saw it on a Jaguar XJS years ago. Tom

Yeah, but Jalopnik has already won the battle of advertising counters. With the number of Forums this has been cross posted to, their advertising rates will go up. Sad but true. Tom

You also built a Datona Coupe? Wow! Tom

It looks like he is using an I-beam as a welding table with the Chinese tubing bender frame and jack as a handy way to raise and lower it to a good working height. My guess on the aluminum plates is for alignment purposes during the welding process. If while welding on the supports the axle tube starts to warp, the plates will accentuate it so that it can be measured for the correct amount of droop or straightness. Tom