Not an actual hobby of mine, but I wish it was. I’ve always wanted to run the “Baja 500/1000”….really, just “Baja” around in a sweet rally car. If I only had the $650K for the car and some gas, parts, and traveling money.🙂
70’s Lancia Stratos (in my colors even). Looks fast and gnarly sitting still😍
@RockyMountainBriar ME too, I worked with a guy in Seattle back in the early 80s who was big into desert racing, expensive hobby, but in his case he was good enough to have a couple of sponsors.
Well, here are one of the three screws I started on the lathe and posted here on May 1. I did get a 10-40 tap and die, so I did not have to “single point” the threads. The tap came in handy to make the plate that held the screw while I cut the slot on the mill. I have since blued them with “Black Magic” gun blue. The shortest screw I made worked perfectly. I have the Crosman 140 #2 back together and working fine. I still need a rear sight elevator, the rear sight screws trimmed to length, the pump pivot welded, and either to finish the two safety levers I started, or buy a couple replacements. Oh, and a trigger spring..not sure if it was missing when I got it, or I lost it🤔. The stock refinish is the final thing on the list.
@RockyMountainBriar That's one way to do it. I was involved with the move of a large machine shop to a newer larger location in the Chicago area, this company almost exclusively made parts for American goverment munitions and aerospace industry.
I watched a guy in the new shop running a wire EDM machine to cut the slots into screw heads, those were some very expensive screws.
@Londy3 Some Birchwood Casey “Tru-Oil”, four coats. Then a couple of polishings with 000 Steelwool and Birchwood Casey “Gun Stock Wax” then finally buffed with a cotton rag.
Here is one of the projects I made today. I wanted a tamper with an angled secondary “foot” for tamping towards the airway when getting close to the bottom of the bowl. The “Yorki” smoked the “Cabbie’s Mixture” to the bottom nicely👍🏻
Working out in the shop with the milling machine a little today…it was hot🥵. I cut the square ends on the Crosman safety pivots and milled out two levers. I need to drill the holes to match the square shanks. I wish I had a wobbler or straight broach. I think I will just hand file the round holes square, or chuck the square file in my drill press and use the spindle to “broach” it by hand. IF, I can find a square file of the correct size. Then I will cut the levers free, attach them to the pivots, and profile the levers in my belt sanders. IF, I had a rotary table/vise for the mill I could cut the profiles with that setup, but alas, I don’t have one…..yet.
I fired up the lathe again and made another tamper. This one is Hububalli wood. Interesting thing about Hububalli…it fluoresces yellow/green under UV/black light. It also displays chatoyance/iridescence in normal light when viewed from different angles, like Black Walnut does. The bright cylinder on the left is just a rolled piece of white paper glowing from the black light. I had some measurement notes on it.
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What @KA9FFJ said.👍🏻
Good for you. I will just make myself at home while you're out, not that far from me ya know 😆
70’s Lancia Stratos (in my colors even). Looks fast and gnarly sitting still😍
It almost looks like a tiny model car.
Cool! You have lots of fun toys. I wanna come and play.
I wish I had that Lancia Stratos….I guess my Jeep CJ5 or my Chevy pickup would have to do.
You be one talented dude, Brother.
Are you a hobby machinist?
I would say a “backyard garage metal monkey”….or wood, or plastic. Hobby Machinist would be a stretch🙂
You really are one of many talents. Impressive.
140 (top)1956-1962
140 (middle) Feb. 1966
1400 (bottom)1968-1972.
They all function excellently now👍🏻
Wow, they all look amazing.
Love the grain on that last picture. What did you use for the wood?
Some Birchwood Casey “Tru-Oil”, four coats. Then a couple of polishings with 000 Steelwool and Birchwood Casey “Gun Stock Wax” then finally buffed with a cotton rag.
Really nice!