From: Marc Strangfeld (curlyjoe98@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jun 05 2004 - 22:12:48 PDT
Dave,
I think Tom does it to get a kick out of our
reactions. But then again who care's about Tom. What
kind of lunatic would spend as many dollars and
resources on a M35 as he did just to make it go 70+
mph, have air conditioning, a redundant brake system,
way too many gages, lights, knobs, and switches, not
to mention a cheap throw away 3208 Cat engine.
With that said, I should relay my quest for free wheel
hubs. Last year I started calling around for a spare
set of hubs that I could machine the splines out of.
The cheapest I could find was $35 a piece. So I
decided to machine my own out of raw stock. I didn't
want to wear out my welcome by overusing the 15"
Colchester at work so I bought my own 16" Southbend
lathe (it's even Navy surplus). One year later the
lathe is under power, cleaned up, and operating as it
should. I now have two hubs ready to bore out the
holes in and press in the oil impregnated bushings.
But, before I do that I need to find a decent boring
bar setup on Ebay as the lathe came with zero tooling.
If you add the cost of the lathe, stock for hubs,
tooling, and electrical hookup I could have bought
many sets of real hubs from Art. But, I did get to
use the M35 to haul home the lathe.
Marc
--- David Cole <DavidCole@tk7.net> wrote:
>
> Tom,
>
> Not everyone has a 16" turret lathe in their garage
> that they can use to
> chuck up their spare set of drive flanges (everyone
> has a set of those
> sitting around also??) just to machine out the
> splines.
>
> I though the design and approach is solid and
> requires few tools, or at
> least not a mill or a lathe.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:29:24 -0400, milveh
> <milveh@carr.org> wrote:
>
> > what a waste of time!! just machine the splines
> out of a spare set of
> > front drive plates. or ask kenny...............
> > tom
> >
> >
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