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so Friday night was baff night at our residence
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but more importantly having hit the 100,000 mile wire wheel mark I decided to treat myself
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and since I like my power equipment to glide across the garage floor at random
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I won't lie to you that thing showed up a few weeks ago and since then I've been playing the NPT, MPT, FPT, 1/4" 3/8", 1/2" and 3/4" round peg square hole game before settling on 3/8th hose from compressor to air gun (for now) I also got some 1/2" hose cause Mike Finegen recommended it, ha ha
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and a while ago I scored this NONE Harbor Freight media blasting cabinet for FREE off of Craigslist from a local Honda dealership, and today I found out why? ha ha
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first batch of degreased and decruded parts awaits their destiny with the Media Master Blaster aka the MMB
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mandatory stare and compare, touch ups will be made
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There’s a lot of videos on the YouTubes about making those cabinets a lot better.
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Very nice! You are gonna love that!!!
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progress not perfection
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and now a little distraction...
so I went to Big Al's house to pick up some random truck parts, I really didn't need nothin' but he's moving and cleaning house (or should I say side yard, ha ha) whilst there looking around I go hey Al, you got any transmission crossmembers by any chance? Big Al [a bit annoyed]: "do you see any, what do you think they grow in the ground!" |
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you can't make this stuff up folks
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the price was right [ FREE ] with the purchase of a hood, a Chevy grill, and core support
win/win/win |
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I figured once I wire wheel all my suspension components, what the he11 am I gonna do with myself, so, I took on this little side project
here it is with the first pass of the wire wheel and... [wait for it] Top Tip: light coat of Phosphoric Acid called Prep & Etch from Home Depot, but please do not use this cheap and highly effective product [and the hidden key ingredient in all them highly marketed rust removers with them fancy labels and commercials], unless you want results |
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Thread stealing, To the alien, where do you get the self sticky plastic for the sand blast cabinet?
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https://www.tptools.com/Cabinet-Inne...rotectors.html |
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I changed my gun on my HF blast cabinet to a more efficient and more volume gun. I also switched to a steel tip in replacement of the ceramic tip and it is much more effective and lasts much longer.
What is the secret ingredient in addition to the prep and etch? |
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so bad news, good news, sorta bad news
bad news: I recently learned (thanks to this forum: What was this clip on lower control arm for?) that my lower control arms be missin the steering bump stops good news: the greatest 67-72 truck parts suppliers this side of the Missiissiippiee aka Joe & Marie hooked me up with the driver side lower control arm in good nick bad news: it is covered in 14 pounds or road grime, so I gots to clean yet another lower control arm, yay me! on a semi serious note, although I only bought one arm it is enuff for me to use it at a template to perhaps place a make shift bump stop and welder it on (now has anyone seen my 1 1/2" square tubbin' I just tripped over it yesterday!) |
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can we get back to the electrification process please
that's an inverter (silver box) and a 30 volt bench power supply (white box) |
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we are using a 30 volt 10 amp bench power supply to safely simulate a high voltage (what eventually will be a 360 volt battery pack) for our first test wheel spin (with the vehicle off the ground)
the silver box aka the inverter has two components inside of it, the top half is a DC to DC boost converter in the actual Lexus it was there to take the 280 volts from the battery pack and boost it to 650 volts (I know very impressive) when you do an EV Conversion using this Lexus transmission/inverter combo you need to bypass this DC to DC boost converter and wire in your 360 volt battery pack right below it directly into the high voltage bus bars like so |
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in this video I go over how to wire up the minimal electric components needed to get the rear wheels to spin
GMCe EV Conversion First Wheel Spin Part II of II |
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It's alive!
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From my experience the tempered glass lasts a good long time. I bought 3 of them several years back and I am on #2 so far. you have to be aware of the bounce in the cabinet and try not to aim the gun so when you are blasting the edge it is not firing right at the glass, or bouncing off the material right at he glass. You can gain some more life by switching hands too. If you are right handed the left side of the glass will be pitted the most and difficult to see through. Switch to left handed and view through the clearer side.
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Cool video. Subscribed to your channel.
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South Paw FTW! |
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Why should you convert to electric? any questions, ha ha
and that was no where near fill up of the 21 gallon petrol tank of da wife's 2010 Honda Pilot, but the pump quit Quick Maff, $100 bucks twice a month is $2,500 per year so I can buy two almost three BMW 530e battery packs every year with that money and since I have two 2018 packs already that tells me they is at least good for three plus years - Good Times! |
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looking good. This really makes me want to do an EV conversion on something.
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there comes a time during a project where you had enuff of doing something [like cleaning gunk off of suspension parts... I'm looking at you lower control arms] and just do something else, so lets weld some sheet
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for this we're gonna need two things, one file folder and one dirty thumb
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