I got the parts. How many people on here have a good
auto body grinder? Three to five HP?
Here are a couple of shots.
Paul Lamar
Allen Ervin wrote:
Paul are you looking for a shop to do the machining? If so
I know a metal fab shop that is looking for work. Not sure
if it is the kind of work they can do, so I'm sending some
of the pics and Rhino Cad Drawing with my wife (she works there)
to see if he would be interested.
Let me know
Allen Ervin
scorpion472@attbi.com
I am certainly interested yes. On the other hand I was counting on Ernesto
for some free labor :)
Paul Lamar
Paul I'm off Thursday. If you want, I can bring my 4" Makita grinder and
die grinder and start cleaning the casting marks off the castings. I have
an idea for the setting up the counter bores but I need you to supervise me.
Ernesto
No need to bring any tools. I have what we need. The manifolds went into a machine
shop today so we should have them in a few days. No raw castings. I decided
it was too much to expect for people to clean them up and resurface them since,
up until now, nobody admitted they had an auto body grinder :) Cheaper to do ten rather
than send some out raw and some out machined. I think the cost will be reasonable
as it is being done in a engine overhaul shop owned by my car mechanic.
(I am too old to work on my own cars anymore. I give him plenty of work
as none of my cars are younger than nine years old.) The 92 Dodge Caravan is
a career all on its own. He also is building an experimental airplane but
I don't have him talked into a 13B yet.
My retired hanger neighbor is designing and building a fixture for the injector
holders so we can clean them up and resurface them and drill the injector
holes on my CCM (Cheap Chinese Mill). He is real good at that sort of thing
as he is a former Bristol Aircraft technician and machine shop owner.
Hold off coming down until he gets those fixtures done. I'll let you know when.
Paul Lamar
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