Yearly Archives: 2014

Oh… so that’s what 2 1/8″ primaries look like…

Noise

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Four years ago I made THIS dimple die out of steel plate and a big ass bolt and nut. It worked… but not well. Fourteen gauge sheet was enough to seriously mangle an M14 bolt… but I used it all over my AE86 and felt pretty good about it. Now, my tool collection is growing rapidly and I’ve retired my […]

Tools For Job

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I did some cleaning over the weekend, and ran across a couple boxes of high school books etc. These were mixed in, and I had totally forgotten ever owning them. In fact, in response to some questions I had about fasteners, Carroll Smith’s books had been popping up both in Google and in conversation, so I had put them on […]

Reduce, Re-use, Recycle

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All the technology of the US military… and good old fashioned wood comes out on top. WTF eh? The last splitter I constructed laid fiberglass over a balsa wood core. It was supposed to be far superior to the solid birch splitters I had used in the past. The FRP/Balsa splitter cost me about $200 and 8 hours of time […]

Mother Nature is Boss

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You forgot this thing was here, and I’m embarrassed to say that I’m quite smitten with it. It has certainly been a Dodge… meaning little annoying things break all the time, and it constantly threatens to blow up it’s transmission, but it is cheap, gets beat on and is incredibly practical. It’s also hilarious on snowy roads. Holding massive angle […]

Still Trucking