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ha ha, no worries I was actually going to start calling it a Cadillac transmotor as a joke

anyway you got that right, please check out this video series called Can't Kill A Toyota Inverter by an Irish block who calls himself Damien Maguire

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so I made some more regress...

a takin' stuff apart Fun Level = 4

and check out them convex floors [ok I'll give ya a minute to GOOGLE that, lol] right!? we're gonna feature them in our Have You Hugged Your GM Engineer Lately segment HYHYGMEL out on PBS tomorrow!

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managed to get that feller out

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then it was time to liberate the windscreen or as you Americans like to call it the glass above the bonnet, LOL

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the key is simply a wide stance

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I was very surprised how cleanly the rubber came out

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Lol.My gym coach always said (Fundamental Stance) when class started.
Your getting done man��
Good job

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Great thread inspiring informational and entertaining ….no tinsel on the Xmas tree 😜

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oh goodness the gym coach stories we could tell around the camp fire if beers was involved, am I right?

now "take a knee"

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ha ha, go on...

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well this would explain....

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... all of this shiet metal that came with the truck

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after the dance of the wheel of death

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and we had ourselves some EV Conversion weight reduction speed holes

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over at our organic outdoors vegan free range metal fartbrication facility - OOVFRMFF

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Reporting in from beautiful Sedona, wow! You have made a lot of progress. I'm offline for the better part of a week and look!! I'm going back through this build again, as I am very impressed with the electric power stuff you are doing.

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FINALLY, well now you see what happens when you leave me Unsupervised Robert ! Yeah been staying busy whilst waiting on them new bandsaw blades to show up so we can cut ourselves sum aluminiumumum battery tray brackets and what not.

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I have that swag bandsaw stand and like it, but the cutting depths are pretty shallow as you found. I have an old Craftsman and a DC motor that I plan to convert, when time allows.

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what bandsaw is you ronnin' on that SWAG table top bro?

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That is the high tech method I used to remove windshields from my Demo Derby cars. Wear gloves and safety glasses!

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thanks, da Gregs is in da House!

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QUESTION: What happens at 1:00 am in your garage any time you are working on a project?

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wife comes out in a good mood?

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that was brilliant

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the answer we were looking for was: We always ran out of welding gas!

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that was really my second guess

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cutting metal like a Boss!

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and pretty soon new metal was in

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Rule numbah 17 in the Metalurgee Gospel

Before you run that beed
Only use as much metal as you need

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poked sum holes for them "fake" spot welds

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nothin' 50 feet and a gallon of bondo won't hide

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but you aint here for shaddy body work and rust repair is you?

since I only replace the blade on this saw once a decade it only took me 9 hours to figure out [again] how to do it, YES IT IS A REVERSE THREAD BOLT, thank you Delta for not putting a sticker on the saw stating that, makes for much more fun

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like a hot knife through buttah

you can check out this setup in action here, the pause in the cut is do to me stopping to take a peak at my phone to make sure it was recording

Delta Miter Saw & Diablo Blade

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just spit ballin' the BMW 530e battery placement

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so I am sourcing these batteries from a 2018 BMW 530e hybrid vehicle and a Battery Pack consists of six of these Cell Modules (a cell module being a brick the size of a regular car battery, except packing nearly 60 volts each) so the entire pack is roughly 360 volts

I plan on running three of these packs in parallel giving me still only 360 volts but adding up the range, my goal being 100 miles (all needing much testing and experimentation)

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like Sardines

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and here is the entire first six pack mocked up, I think it needs to go forward sum towards the bow more but for now I just laid them on the flatest part of the frame [and yes flatest is a word, I just made it a word]

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so each one of those Battery Packs (consisting of six Cell Modules) is 9.1 kW and I plan on running at least two of them in the front and one or two more under the cab and or the bed of the truck

general rule based on my experience with a Nissan Leaf for three years says you can expect roughly 3 miles per killer watt so 9.1 times 3 equals a range of 27.3 miles per pack

now I get that by dividing my Leaf range of 84 miles by it's 24 kW battery pack which gives me 3.5 mile average per killer watt and because my vehicle may be heavier and less aero dynamic I round that down to 3 miles instead of 3.5, kapish

and we can thumb wrestle over this till the cows come home, but I can also tell you that, that Leaf has seen a range of as high at 106 miles on the same battery pack so there's that, it all depends on your driving 'habbits" as they say

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second verse, same as the first

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Those fit in there pretty nicely. So you're thinking you will have roughly 160 miles of range with those 6 batteries?