Keeper
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haha I was thinking the same thing.
Fuel tank for Fad
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haha I was thinking the same thing.
one finger john
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Well, Gerry, it wasn't in your profile, but the way you softly held that BFHammer and lovingly caress your tools would indicate that you are an old softy at heart (unlike,apparently, some others [perhaps of Scottish descent] who are animals AND brutes).
Now this is to everyone within the site, how do you treat your tools? Do you use screw drivers for chisels, torque wrenches for breaker bars, or when all else hasn't failed, hammered a socket on to a buggered nut (that you buggered) to try to get it off (not knowing it was a reverse thread nut/stud) and still had to torch said nut off, OR for the Englishmen among us, using a porta power to gently lift a 3.8 Jaguar cylinder head that had become firmly corroded to the studs (which in the end I cut the studs with a torch when the head wouldn't raise more than four inches off the block).
Are clean, neat, unmarred tools an extension of your work (and yourself) or are they just tools.
John, G'nite
Now this is to everyone within the site, how do you treat your tools? Do you use screw drivers for chisels, torque wrenches for breaker bars, or when all else hasn't failed, hammered a socket on to a buggered nut (that you buggered) to try to get it off (not knowing it was a reverse thread nut/stud) and still had to torch said nut off, OR for the Englishmen among us, using a porta power to gently lift a 3.8 Jaguar cylinder head that had become firmly corroded to the studs (which in the end I cut the studs with a torch when the head wouldn't raise more than four inches off the block).
Are clean, neat, unmarred tools an extension of your work (and yourself) or are they just tools.
John, G'nite
one finger john
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My first set of tools were Craftsman that were purchased from the department store. During the period that I first worked as a mechanic (English cars) I used the boss's tools and slowly changed my personal tools over to Snap on. Then they were stolen in a break in and I was back to using the boss's tools. Started to rebuild my Snap On collection and was nicked again about four years later. When I started to work on Porsches I popped for a big red Snap On top box and started all over again. After twenty five years I still have the top box and most of my precision tools. Lost a lot of my ratchets, sockets, extensions, metric wrenches (?, why just those) and a hand carry Craftsman box my father gave me when I first started out (losing that hurt). That break in was five years ago. I have "lost" 2 1/2 sets of tools to thieves. I hate thieves.
My good tools are my Snap Ons. The tools I have for office maintenance, building maintenance, are neat & tidy but I don't consider them anything more than "just" tools. I'd like to build my Snap On set back up, but the prices are astounding these days.
My massage table I have had since I started doing body work, twenty years ago. My massage chair I have had for the last eleven years. Both are well kept.
I consider a man's tools an indication of who he is and how he conducts his business. Nothing more and nothing less.
John
My good tools are my Snap Ons. The tools I have for office maintenance, building maintenance, are neat & tidy but I don't consider them anything more than "just" tools. I'd like to build my Snap On set back up, but the prices are astounding these days.
My massage table I have had since I started doing body work, twenty years ago. My massage chair I have had for the last eleven years. Both are well kept.
I consider a man's tools an indication of who he is and how he conducts his business. Nothing more and nothing less.
John
Ted Brown
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I had a friend, I say had, because he is no more... He was a clean freak, and I do mean clean, everything, (He even washed his car everyday) I told him on several occasions that he should have been a pro janitor!! His shop looked neat as a pin, but he was not worth a crap at building anything that worked... 
Gerry
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We have SO at work. these days most of their stuff is BluePoint and just as crappy as anything out there. You can not beat SO for sockets and spanners but as you say the prices are just out of this world. I know a few guys have gone away from SO saying they can buy 3 or 4 times for the price of 1 SO. So they but good, and replace more often. They say its cheaper than SO and no less effective.
Everything we have ordered from SO over the last 18 months has been on 6 week back order and that includes common sockets. I think they have pushed their rep just a little too far. My Opinion only not that of the froum.
Gerry
Everything we have ordered from SO over the last 18 months has been on 6 week back order and that includes common sockets. I think they have pushed their rep just a little too far. My Opinion only not that of the froum.
Gerry
Allen
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There was a guy on one of the garage forums that I frequent posted a slick idea of using pieces of old rubber horse stall mat. Cut them in a U shape to fit the jaw so they would not fall on the floor all the time.
Gerry
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Back to the fuel tank.
Got the filler tube welded up and finished off. Toruble is the welding has tightened up the thread for the cap. So OLD trick of using valve grinding paste to give it some clearance. Takes time but works a treat.
So I did the internal welding of the sender boss and the filler neck. Also ran a bead between the base plate and the middle section of the tank. Got a bit of distortion but managed to get it back with some persuasion. Like with a hammer, dolly and a bit of time. Managed to get one side in place and tacked up but as you can imagine its not as easy as it looked on the drawing board. Took 3 1/2 hours to get this far and there is still a bunch of work to get the end stars sorted out.
Back to it agin next week.
Now that I have got this far its obvious that plating it is out of the question, its just not good enough to polish up and plate, so it will be painted, probably with a brass colored finish. If I did another one I now know what to do if I wanted to have it plated.... lots more works and lots more time, Oh and probably 15 years experience in a fabrication shop with a guys thats 60 years old and could make roadster fender in his lunch break. Must admit though I think it will look quite trick on the back of the yella fella
Gerry
Got the filler tube welded up and finished off. Toruble is the welding has tightened up the thread for the cap. So OLD trick of using valve grinding paste to give it some clearance. Takes time but works a treat.
So I did the internal welding of the sender boss and the filler neck. Also ran a bead between the base plate and the middle section of the tank. Got a bit of distortion but managed to get it back with some persuasion. Like with a hammer, dolly and a bit of time. Managed to get one side in place and tacked up but as you can imagine its not as easy as it looked on the drawing board. Took 3 1/2 hours to get this far and there is still a bunch of work to get the end stars sorted out.
Back to it agin next week.
Now that I have got this far its obvious that plating it is out of the question, its just not good enough to polish up and plate, so it will be painted, probably with a brass colored finish. If I did another one I now know what to do if I wanted to have it plated.... lots more works and lots more time, Oh and probably 15 years experience in a fabrication shop with a guys thats 60 years old and could make roadster fender in his lunch break. Must admit though I think it will look quite trick on the back of the yella fella
Gerry
Gerry,
you might want to concider powder coat instead of paint for the tank. paint and spilled fuel don't get along all that well, and the powder will also help fill the minor imperfections.
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Russ
you might want to concider powder coat instead of paint for the tank. paint and spilled fuel don't get along all that well, and the powder will also help fill the minor imperfections.
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Russ
more than that. but with all the angles involved there you'll be able to drive a tank over that thing without warpage (IMHO). call the baking a "stress relief process to relax the molecular structure"
Russ
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