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- Terry Coombs
  
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8 years ago

Wed, Nov 4, 2015 4:07 AM

Today's metalworking is auto related . a good freing runs a car resto business , and he cvalls on me from time to time with little jobs . Today I bored out a door hinge to a 1954 Lincoln to install a bushing to tighten it up - these are apparently unobtainium . Bushing stock (manganese bronze) will be here early next week - and I got enough to do all four hinges , because they're all loose . Makes it kinda hard to adjust the latches and get nice even gaps between the doors and other bodywork .

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- Bob La Londe
  
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8 years ago

Wed, Nov 4, 2015 10:49 PM

Sounds like a fun little project.

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- Terry Coombs
  
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8 years ago

Wed, Nov 4, 2015 11:39 PM

Looks like it , I got another call from him today , one of his customers had a flex plate that needed some bolt holes elongated to fit a tranny . A fun interruption to my block laying antics . (I'm building a kitchen on to our living room , going to have a cellar with block walls under it .)

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- Larry Jaques
  
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8 years ago

Thu, Nov 5, 2015 4:52 AM

Drill press, lathe, or mill? Way back then, you could do this kind of thing because they made the hinges from 1" stock.

Guitar strings are metal, too. I found this today while listening to the old California Jam sounds. I happily attended that 1974 shindig, heard Ozzy whine, and saw Keith Emerson put on his seatbelt and go up into the air with a grand piano to play while he spun around the axis pole. Wild times were had. Anyway, in the playlist was an entire Jeff Beck concert from Tokyo. Amazing.

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