Okay, this is great. While I’ve seen individuals broaden their own steel wheels on several videos, the process usually involves a huge lathe or some seriously questionable stuff. This seems means much less sketchy than those and doesn’t require a large expensive lathe. Prior to any one of you OSHA inspectors out there begin discussing exactly how it is bad to transform wheels, weld on wheels, or what have you, know that we are just sharing a cool video of a device we believe is cool and could try out our own. If you wish to do the exact same, that gets on you.If you have the ability to weld and also to measure fairly accurately, you can make this little rig right here. And since it makes use of a 4.5 inch angle grinder it is something that any individual thinking about doing this should have in their store anyhow. And also the electric motor that he uses, along with the drive setting up, indicates that you can utilize this exact same equipment to bond the wheels back with each other, it is not just for cutting them apart.

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The equipment is really handy in making the widening of steel wheels, for the drive I used an electrical motor with a gear, the engine rate was in addition lowered so that it was feasible to weld not only with the mig technique however likewise with the tig approach. With such a widening of the wheels, work should be done extremely carefully, without haste, weld with high existing to carry out remelting. The wheel that I widened is much more challenging to broaden than the regular wheel, however thanks to the rollers, I handled to make this wheel flawlessly, the rollers assist to center as well as align the wheel axis.

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Using very little more than an angle grinder and also a measuring tape, you can make a VERY wonderful small anvil for your store. While it seems like it would certainly be amazing to have a huge anvil that evaluates hundreds of extra pounds, the truth is that most individuals that are not home heating and creating metal possibly don’t have the need for one that huge. Many of us would like to have something bigger and much more accurate than the little anvile pad that you locate on the back of a lot of vises. Heck, sometimes that does not also exist so our vise ends up obtaining a part established on the leading and afterwards beat half to death. An anvil can conserve your vise from a great deal of damage.In this video you are going to see a 16 inch piece of railroad track, which is actually a lot easier to locate than you could expect, obtaining gauged, marked, and shaped, into a really impressive and also clean-looking anvil. I seriously question that most of you would certainly have any kind of difficulty making an acceptable version of this in your very own garage at home.

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In this video clip, I turn a Railroad Track right into an Anvil utilizing an Angle Grinder. This was a great metalworking project for me, I entirely took pleasure in doing this, it was among those basic tasks I such as, putting something on the workbench reducing some things off it, and cleaning it up a bit, and the work is done. Hahaha, Good times.

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It’s crunch time and that means the thrash begins! Of course, it also tends to mean that corners are about to be cut, shortcuts are about to be created, and sleep is only a dream. Watch.

If you haven’t been to Bonneville to see land speed racing in person, and haven’t gotten to see what is really going on inside the streamliners that run 200, 300, 400, and even 500 mph then you are missing out at a lot of levels. One is the technology and creativity that is brought to the table at these events. This new streamliner project from FastMatt is one of those that you are going to want to check out, and thanks to his videos you get to see it actually coming together and we dig it. Check out Part Three of the build as he goes over all the challenges of putting a drivetrain in this race car here. Sometimes the engines, transmissions, and axles don’t connect real easily and in a car like this space is at a premium. Watch how Matt handles all of it below.

I’ve been attending and racing at, land speed events for nearly 15 years now which is kind of weird and hard to believe. It’s amazing racing, and a whole other kind of experience compared to drag racing, road racing, circle track racing, etc. But there are still a bunch of similarities in all kinds of racing with regards to speed parts, chassis components, etc. How you put them together and make them work together is a different ball game in some ways though, as frontal area and aerodynamics are so critical on a vehicle like this streamliner. With that said, you still have to fit a driver in it that can actually drive while in it. Makes sense right?

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