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  1. Gearhead88

    Show us your shops!

    You can't see the passenger side but it has lots of damage , all the lights on that side are gone ,there is plastic , glass and other debris still on the ground out back , lots of it . The fender was pushed into the tire , he tried backing up and made an attempt to leave , once the cops and...
  2. Gearhead88

    Show us your shops!

    I have a police report , it's done online now and there is very little information to work with on the form , it shows the vehicle , belonging to Enterprise rentals , the insurance policy for the vehicle . It does show his drivers licence number but nothing more than that , the cop sheilded his...
  3. Gearhead88

    Show us your shops!

    Here's the view from my deck in 2022 when I was getting started building that shed , for scale , it's 10' x 10' . You can clearly see the trajectory of that pickup truck and the potential for disaster if a vehicle was carrying speed and lost it coming around the turn by my fence . The green...
  4. Gearhead88

    Show us your shops!

    The creep is a loser punk from what I've gathered , I'm thinkin he doesn't have a pot to piss in . This could have gone a completely different direction had I ran out there in a rage , with a weapon . What I did do was keep my composure , hid any emotion I might have been feeling , showed no...
  5. Gearhead88

    Show us your shops!

    I'm going to find out . Another option is cement traffic barriers
  6. Gearhead88

    Show us your shops!

    The 10' x10' shed was a game changer , it is full of heavy stuff and is shoved two feet from where I last left it . The corner of the garage took a hard hit , this is a concern but it sounds like the adjuster has the right people on it , I'll meet the guy tomorrow. I'm thinkin , I'll never...
  7. Gearhead88

    Show us your shops!

    This happened Monday , a driver in a big hurry going waaayyy too fast down the back lane , there's a 90 degree turn , my property is at the end of a long straightaway , which happens to be a sheet of ice presently . I've often joked about the way these idiots around here drive like the dukes...
  8. Gearhead88

    Milling machine stand for sale or trade

    Still for sale
  9. Gearhead88

    Looking for .375" & .385" top valve guide pilots for cutting valve seats

    I have built pilots before , mostly used for alignment while installing valve seats or fixturing a cylinder head , sort of crude , but do the intended job . I don't think I'd want to make pilots out of whatever I've got laying around and expect to use them repeatedly , while doing precise...
  10. Gearhead88

    Looking for .375" & .385" top valve guide pilots for cutting valve seats

    Yes , I've bought valve guide reamers there before . Another company I've purchased engine building tools from is Goodson , then , there's ebay ........ lots of my stuff came from ebay . I'm not new at this . I was looking to see if any of our members had any of this stuff laying around and...
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