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I don't know. Are your hands and face sticky?
I don't know. Are your hands and face sticky?
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Pictures of my 'braced' homemade shakle-flip
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I do see the crab claw exhaust!!!
I don't have a lot of fabrication skills either, but I know when to use you're instead of your. My point being we all need advise from time to time and I for one enjoy learning from the people that use this site. I think most of us here have a common goal. That being, building and sharing all the experiences that comes from this sport/hobby.
But hey, enough of the emo $hit, could someone post a few more photos of shackle flips!!
I don't have a lot of fabrication skills either, but I know when to use you're instead of your. My point being we all need advise from time to time and I for one enjoy learning from the people that use this site. I think most of us here have a common goal. That being, building and sharing all the experiences that comes from this sport/hobby.
But hey, enough of the emo $hit, could someone post a few more photos of shackle flips!!
So do A/T'sYup, fake beadlocks scream hardcore...
It's what came on the truck... 37 x 12.5 SSR's come springtime...
Are you sure your not a reincarnated DW?
Are you sure your not a reincarnated DW?
You all make a valid point. Some have a similar setup that is working fine and I'm happy for them. MY point and opinion is that some people have exceptional fab skills and can create a diamond out of a turd. However, most of us, including myself, don't always have the skills we think we have and try to fab a part that may look reliable and safe at face value but in reality it is a disaster waiting to happen. Too many times on this site I see guys trying to take the short cut and doing half-assed crap because they would rather spend countless hours trying to fab parts that can otherwise be bought for less than the time and materials it took to make. Plus these purchased parts have had many hours of testing and engineering put into them to insure quality and strength. Take for example the DIY4X and ORD Shackle flips. For $180.00 I feel that is the best option. The excuse of having the desire and accomplishment of doing the work your self is obsurd. We all have plenty of things to do to our rigs ourselves and leave the crazy stuff to the pros. I know I'll have a lot of push back from these comments so let me have it.
This makes no sense...... I think someone must have sneaked-in and typed this on your computer while you were still logged in to CK5.
Welcome to the "new" CK5..... BOUGHT not BUILT.
Pleh.
I will send you back you're $25 membership fee if you promise to never return to CK5.
Yeah, a bit hacked but it should make my point if you read it REAL SLOW like a 1st grader.
It is a bit jumbled.
And sometimes people are just better off having bought parts rather than them building them. It's just real life brother.
You're not worth 60 cents. How about you pay me $60 and I put you on my ignore list?
I forgot about the ignore list! Thanx for reminding me Wes!
Yeah, a bit hacked but it should make my point if you read it REAL SLOW like a 1st grader.
And sometimes people are just better off having bought parts rather than them building them. It's just real life brother.
I understand your comments, my reading comprehension is actually quite good....
The objection is with your generalizations. It's clear that you have a fear of fabrication and don't trust yourself to build safe parts. Fair enough. Nobody will fault you for knowing your own limitations and buying someone else fabricated parts instead of building something of questionable strength yourself.
However, your conclusion that most of us should just trust the "experts" at ORD or DIY4X is ludicrous. There are plenty of people on this site who have the knowledge and skill to build their own parts (and DO!).... As a self-described novice, you are not a credible expert on what is safe vs. unsafe.
With one more plate across the top of that hanger, that homebrew flip will be every bit as suitable for the task as an ORD or DIY4X flip....for a total cost of maybe $5......not $180. Spending more does not guarantee a more suitable part, and being able to build it yourself cheaper does not automatically make the solution less valid or safe.
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Well said. The only thing I would add is just because something doesn't look pretty, doesn't mean it's no good.I understand your comments, my reading comprehension is actually quite good....
The objection is with your generalizations. It's clear that you have a fear of fabrication and don't trust yourself to build safe parts. Fair enough. Nobody will fault you for knowing your own limitations and buying someone else fabricated parts instead of building something of questionable strength yourself.
However, your conclusion that most of us should just trust the "experts" at ORD or DIY4X is ludicrous. There are plenty of people on this site who have the knowledge and skill to build their own parts (and DO!).... As a self-described novice, you are not a credible expert on what is safe vs. unsafe.
With one more plate across the top of that hanger, that homebrew flip will be every bit as suitable for the task as an ORD or DIY4X flip....for a total cost of maybe $5......not $180. Spending more does not guarantee a more suitable part, and being able to build it yourself cheaper does not automatically make the solution less valid or safe.
I understand your comments, my reading comprehension is actually quite good....
The objection is with your generalizations. It's clear that you have a fear of fabrication and don't trust yourself to build safe parts. Fair enough. Nobody will fault you for knowing your own limitations and buying someone else fabricated parts instead of building something of questionable strength yourself.
However, your conclusion that most of us should just trust the "experts" at ORD or DIY4X is ludicrous. There are plenty of people on this site who have the knowledge and skill to build their own parts (and DO!).... As a self-described novice, you are not a credible expert on what is safe vs. unsafe.
With one more plate across the top of that hanger, that homebrew flip will be every bit as suitable for the task as an ORD or DIY4X flip....for a total cost of maybe $5......not $180. Spending more does not guarantee a more suitable part, and being able to build it yourself cheaper does not automatically make the solution less valid or safe.
I agree with some of what you said in the first paragraph. I will take more caution with the aforementioned parts partly because of my skills are moderate at best on suspention type parts but mostly because I have a 4 year old son who rides in the blazer and I want to minimize risk as much as possible.
Sounds like you are comparing the shackle filp in this thread as similar quality to ORD and DIY4X. So you think only people people who make a paycheck by fabbing and welding are the only ones who should be able to opine on this site? All I ever mentioned was my opinion on this subject. I don't have to be an expert whatsoever to chime in with my $.02. Your a Mod here, isn't this what the site is for to ask questions and people give there opinions whether you agree with them or not.
You said with a little extra bracing his part will "be every bit as suitable for the task as the ORD and DIY4X flip. Greg, I don't know. You just said I had no credibility to judge what is safe and valid because I am a novice. So you are a welder and fabricator by trade and believe that his untested hanger is/will be every bit as good as the ORD and DIY4X product that has years of testing and practicle field use. Seems like you just scorned me for something you are now guilty of. Unless you are a welder by trade, of course.
Can't he just give an opinion on your opinion? 
Oh and I wouldn't get in a pissing match with Greg about who know better...
Oh and I wouldn't get in a pissing match with Greg about who know better...
WOOOW! I go away for the weekend and this is what this thread has turned in to!!??
I feel I tried to defuse the situation by apoligizing for comments that hurts any feelings, but it turned into a piss and moan match anyways, that sucks guys. this is just unnecessary. I feel if your going to post up pics then be open to CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM and alike, you open yourself up to just plain criticism period, BUT, there is no need to be a dick about it while telling someone their stuff is crap. I dont feel I did. anyone who thinks I did is a fu*king idiot.
please re-read what I said and show me, or quote what I said, where I was being negitive or hammering on him. I bet you cant, or I will explain why YOU are interpeting it incorrectly.
the whole built not bought thing is stupid, we ALL at some point have bought something for our rigs we COULD have made. I COULD machine my own billet wheels but I dont own my own machime shop. ANYONE that has seen my parts here KNOWS I have built some bad ass parts and could build some bitchen shackle buckets, but some times I just dont want to or Im just too lazy, period, so the f**k what.
I dont for a minuite expect everyone to be a master fabricator, and I sure as hell dont claim that I am one either. there is every leval of skill represented here, COOL! I am ALLWAYS WILLING TO HELP ANYONE with any question they have.
I made a thread once about being compelled to reply to something that you could just not let go without saying your piece. this is how pissing matches get started, feelings are hurt, and threads get locked and guys get banned. sometimes JUST MOVE ON AND DONT MAKE A LITTLE SMOKE INTO A HUGE FIRE!, make sence. If I thought for a second anything I said was a contributor to this crap throwing fest I would have never posted.
I go away for the weekend and this is what this thread has turned in to!!??I feel I tried to defuse the situation by apoligizing for comments that hurts any feelings, but it turned into a piss and moan match anyways, that sucks guys. this is just unnecessary. I feel if your going to post up pics then be open to CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM and alike, you open yourself up to just plain criticism period, BUT, there is no need to be a dick about it while telling someone their stuff is crap. I dont feel I did. anyone who thinks I did is a fu*king idiot.
please re-read what I said and show me, or quote what I said, where I was being negitive or hammering on him. I bet you cant, or I will explain why YOU are interpeting it incorrectly.
the whole built not bought thing is stupid, we ALL at some point have bought something for our rigs we COULD have made. I COULD machine my own billet wheels but I dont own my own machime shop. ANYONE that has seen my parts here KNOWS I have built some bad ass parts and could build some bitchen shackle buckets, but some times I just dont want to or Im just too lazy, period, so the f**k what.
I dont for a minuite expect everyone to be a master fabricator, and I sure as hell dont claim that I am one either. there is every leval of skill represented here, COOL! I am ALLWAYS WILLING TO HELP ANYONE with any question they have.
I made a thread once about being compelled to reply to something that you could just not let go without saying your piece. this is how pissing matches get started, feelings are hurt, and threads get locked and guys get banned. sometimes JUST MOVE ON AND DONT MAKE A LITTLE SMOKE INTO A HUGE FIRE!, make sence. If I thought for a second anything I said was a contributor to this crap throwing fest I would have never posted.
