Recent content by ruzter

Janger: ok thanks!

Well originally I was hoping to have it done for the car show at the church on Wye road and clover bar in late August but you know how that is. I have three weeks off in early August when I'm hoping to get lots done. Again you know how that goes. I'll try to take some pictures and post them in...

I will :) when there is something to see besides a half tore apart VW :)

Aluminum wheels have new lug holes! just need to chamfer them. My first time really milling. Gotta love a DRO. I may put dummy lugs in to fill the unused holes. Anyone know why the pics come in rotated and how to fix them?

Thanks! I wont be using those tires. They are 16 inch rims so I can get almost any tire I want and it is a wide rim so I can use a wide tire. Plus I got them for $30 a piece. I have some 265 wide tires to try, I will have to see if they are too big. I picked a 8 lug rim because it is easy to...

I have a Volksrod project. For my rear wheels, I need a wheel adapter to go from VW beetle 4x130mm to 8 x 170mm which is a ford super duty F250. needless to say they don't make this and I would be too cheap to buy them anyways. Here is a mockup I CNC'ed from MDF I got the front hubs today...

Thanks Eric, also looking at doing a Volksrod now. No shortage or things to do!

Darrel here in Sherwood Park. I have a lathe but also a friend with the machine job :-). I like the metal work for motorcyclesand whatever else it is all cool. I love the look of aluminum that I polished myself. I'm interested in good sources of metal because I am cheap :). i'm interested to see...

very nice. I'm in to motorcycles too.my main project right now is a café racer 81 Gold wing. We machined fork extensions to mount the clip on handlebars to. turned out very very nice. That's what made me buy my own lathe. I bought a couple exit DW 650s but then realized I didn't need five...