Damn Aussies, always messing up a good anti French bitch session. 
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Jan. 5, 2012 4:13 p.m. Curmudgeon SuperDork
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Jan. 5, 2012 4:16 p.m. fasted58 SuperDork
In reply to aussiesmg:
it's relevant because the French are tools
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Jan. 5, 2012 4:23 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork
bearmtnmartin wrote:
good thread here about homemade tools http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=235784
I like the HAMB...lots of good stuff there, but if I go there I tend to lurk...I'm not too concerned with period correctness, and they're likely to my car (with parts from 1982) as being blasphemous. Lots of good craftsmanship there, though....especially that guy (john???) from GhiaSpecialties.
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Jan. 5, 2012 4:25 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork
44Dwarf wrote:
.040 aluminum...no I'm not kidding. It might have been tweaked from the shipping don't really know at this point i don't care i don't need it right now.
Yeah, I bet yours was defective. (Not uncommon...my shrinker stretcher was shipped missing springs for the jaws) I'm saying that because this was 0.05 steel.
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Jan. 5, 2012 5:44 p.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
SkinnyG wrote:
I've only ever used a French Wheel.
It looks just like an English Wheel, only you use a lot of French with it.
You have to watch those - they steal your thumbnails.
I got a shrinker/stretcher combo from the HF to help with box flares and it seems to work pretty well. I have nothing to compare it to - but having zero experience I was able to make a decent smooth radius on the 3rd try with some 20ga steel sheet.
I am going to try to whip up some dimple dies on the lathe one of these days - I need to make some light/strong gussets and the "real" dies are pretty expensive once you get to wanting more than one size.
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Jan. 5, 2012 8:02 p.m. erohslc HalfDork
I've used my lathe to make some forming bucks and dies out of HF trailer hitch balls.
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Jan. 8, 2012 8:18 a.m. mguar Reader
jimbbski wrote:
mguar wrote:
4cylndrfury wrote:
HMMM The French gave America it's liberty. In doing so it cost the French government their heads.. The heads of their wives and children..SkinnyG wrote:
I've only ever used a French Wheel.
It looks just like an English Wheel, only you use a lot of French with it.
Oh, so when you ask it to do something, it is all condescending to you right up until the point it gives up and runs away?
Without France to Finance the American revolution, keep the British ships busy and to box in Cornwallis the American revolution would just be a failed footnote in history.. Don't forget the statue of Liberty was France's gift to America..
And we paid France back many times. Like in WW I we saved their asses and again in WW II. We tried to help them in Viet Nam and ended up fighting there ourselves in a long pointless war. So I have to say we have paid the bill may times over with interest!
Paid them back?
Oh so when exactly did our government and most of the leading figures have their heads, their wives head and children's head chopped off in the guillotine?As for WW 1& 2? well aren't you glad we fought in France rather than have the Nazi's invade America? (as they intended to?)
Finally as to my service in Vietnam (2 tours 1968 & 1970) I'm with Mark Twain here.. Any nation that has to go 1/2 way around the world to find a war isn't exactly peaceful..
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Jan. 8, 2012 10:53 a.m. SkinnyG HalfDork
sigh
"French Wheel" was supposed to be a joke.
Can we get back on topic, and not turn this into something political?
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Jan. 8, 2012 2:28 p.m. 44Dwarf Dork
SkinnyG wrote:
sigh
"French Wheel" was supposed to be a joke.
Can we get back on topic, and not turn this into something political?
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Jan. 8, 2012 7:19 p.m. NOHOME HalfDork
Nobody has mentioned the shrinking disk or the shrinking stump. Both inexpensive and effective tools.
If you are going to shape alloy, you need a torch to heat it up and anneal as it work hardens.
Palm nailers are useful for working out bumps and shapes from areas where there is no room to swing a hammer.
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Jan. 8, 2012 7:47 p.m. 1988RedT2 SuperDork
Pro-French? I'm pretty sure it's just the one guy.....
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Jan. 8, 2012 11:32 p.m. ransom Dork
In reply to 1988RedT2:
I'm pro-French, but I'd rather talk about metal forming right now if that's all right.
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Jan. 9, 2012 5:26 p.m. mguar Reader
SkinnyG wrote:
sigh
"French Wheel" was supposed to be a joke.
Can we get back on topic, and not turn this into something political?
I apologize.. bad humor lately..
