Good advise!! 🙂
Nice lift, yummy 🙂 I'm less than 30, but I started to build some lifting helps already. Just to help save my back and knees for future, when I will be 60+. Some simple hydraulic "shop crane" eg. for putting a motor on the table. And a lift table for bikes, with a "lift chair" for third wheel. Maybe this year. Colleagues say that 30 kilos is nothing for real man, but I don't care to be 🙂 Worse, my brother also says that and lifts such things fast and I can't explain it to him.
I have a weak spot for almost every tool. Especially these old machines, with some tunes, used and cared by owner for tens of years.
Good workshop and machines, with which I get old - mayby my future. At the time I'm just starting my own real worxhop since last year. 46 don't sell good, old tools. You will never be able to rebuy them.
But, as my old retired friend says about his workshop - sell or give them by yourself, "into good hands", before your heirs sell them "anywhere, just quickly".
how do you true a twin cam fly wheel? i see how your press will push it apart, then you can service the rods, but how do you push it together and get it true?
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I will do all I can to keep from having to sell any more of my stuff which I sold a lot of what I have collected over my 60 just to get by. You really would have to know my situation to understand.
The press in the pictures press the flywheels apart and back together with in about .010 or less which is all most as good as the OEM Harley cranks this day and age. We have plains on how we are going to build a jig to manipulate the wheels for truing. I have a turning stand to check them I have had for at least 30 plus years. I will all so be able to balance the cranks like I have for years on EVOs and lower.
I was not planing on building twin cam cranks but when all the big boys how they do them wanted to act like it was a big secret and would not tell me I said hell I will figure it out my self and tell all. I will post more pictures of the turning jig when done but in my situation could be a while.
I have done quite a few of small pressed cranks but you can hit them with a big cooper hammer to true them like the older Harley cranks.
It took years to get all my tools and machines. Yes I agree if I sell them I will never have them again.
Thank you all for the support!
Jeff
I was not planing on building twin cam cranks but when all the big boys how they do them wanted to act like it was a big secret and would not tell me I said hell I will figure it out my self and tell all. I will post more pictures of the turning jig when done but in my situation could be a while.
Good on ya, I don't have much respect for the secrets crowd anyway.
Several of the secret guys became my clients in the following way.
They had been fierce competitors for the first years so I went back to industry as full time engineer, but a US company did not pay 14month. As You all may know It is impossible to grab some money out of a naked man's pocket...but its worse to get if out of the pockets of a crucket Scotsman... (As life's irony wants he is now prisoner of his own will as "State protected witness" and married to a snake and to step out of his365-24-7residential is kind of suicide)
As I reopened the shop and got little loan machining in some of those who fought me before. came up:"Sven, you have studied automation can't You help us with our broken ....machine?"
Well they were able to upgrade to CNC machinery while I rode around rebuilding and trouble shooting from dental die grinder to 54 m long chip board press line.
Lessons learned: (mostly the hard and hurting way)
Stay and live sane.
Stay true to ethic principles
don't overload your back
"Better small and fine, but mine"
"When it's said run, RUN !' ' 2 breathes of Chlorine were enough to loose most of smell, taste and perfect eyes.
read and understand manuals and safety data sheets.
Don't trust those who approach you for some Business. all they want is your best....knowledge, work and money.
Better alone then in bad company.....
plus many more.
Sven
I would rather give my tools to friends than imagine them going to an auction house. Problem there is I don't have friends that could possibly use them
I start to sellect who will recieve which machines when in some moment I will close down- Quite a few will go to a thechnical internat, but the beauties will go only into the best hands. My buddy Guido Alfaro, the best tool maker I have ever worked with, Even in Germany are only VERY few who can reach him the water.
Meanwhile although I cannot fill the shop with work,, For any purpose the machines and tools stay as resource. Like yesterday Sunday I was milling a few brackets for the oil cooler that I mounted today to the Ural.
Sven
