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Project Blue Truck: '83 C20 - Rolling Chassis

andyblack said:
It's definately looking more like a truck again. :thumb:

Is that your new shop you've got it in?
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It felt good to see the cab back on it.

As for the shop, I had the opportunity to enter negotiations on a piece of property adjacent to my family's farm, which axed any plans of building a shop. I closed in my current shop to hunker down and make the long haul.

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Part of welding the cab to the sliders is tying the two rails together with more than just sheet metal, so a cage of sorts is in order. I'm using Bendtech, which requires XYZ measurements, so I need a way to map the interior of the cab to lay out the tube locations. My solution is this jig which I can expand via the threaded rod to wedge between the floor and ceiling and then slide the "carriage" up and down to set Y. By clamping a straight edge to the angle iron shelf on the carriage I can measure over horizontally to get the X and Z dimensions.

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It still needs a little bit more work but hopefully I will be building the digital version of the cage before too much longer.
 
R.i.p.

I've been using a 20 gallon compressor that has been around longer than me to supply my shop air needs and it is starting to get a little long in the tooth. Last month the tank developed a rust induced pinhole, and right after fixing that the line connecting the two cylinders 'sploded and shut down all forward progress on replacing the rocker panels. It's kind of hard to use an air powered die grinder with no air power. Who knew...:doah:

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Rather than keep patching the 'lil fella back together I decided to replace it with a compressor that will outlive me. After snooping around the Internet a bit, I settled on a Quincy 7.5 HP 80 gallon unit, I just need to figure out where I'm going to put it and how I'm going to power it. Anyone have any experience with these?

Since I can't move forward on the rocker panels, I decided to check out an auction for a machine shop whose owner was retiring in Milledgeville, Georgia, and in my mind, I scored. The important loot is...

A plethora of bins.

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A new Baldor 14" grinder, which should have no problem making it hard to count to ten should I get careless. ($300 by the way, I'm pretty pleased)

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And the best for last... a 3.375 twist drill! I have no use for this, but couldn't resist the AWESOMENESS.

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I'd sell small children for the bins and Baldor... :bow:

that bit is crazy, looks like something out of WW2 factories... :haha:


as to the comp.. sick.. quincy's rock, and that's a big one there.. is that single phase?


I run a 60 gal 2 stage myself...




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ryoken said:
I'd sell small children for the bins and Baldor... :bow:

that bit is crazy, looks like something out of WW2 factories... :haha:


as to the comp.. sick.. quincy's rock, and that's a big one there.. is that single phase?


I run a 60 gal 2 stage myself...
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The bins were $40 for everything you see. :pimp: There were A LOT more, but they were all full and sold with the contents, which pushed them out of my price range. I can't wait to get the grinder wired in, spooled up, and shredding metal. Now that the drill press won't have the phase converter all to itself, I need to look into setting up a three phase panel in the shop.

The Quincy is single phase, but from reading it will require an 80 amp breaker, which I don't really have room for since my shop runs off of a sub panel. How quiet is yours? I've read that you can talk on the phone standing next to one. The reason for such overkill is I am looking to get a plasma table and want something that can keep the plasma cutter fed while I continue working in the shop.
 
eh, to be honest, that's the one thing I'm not overly impressed with is noise.. I mean it's quite as he!! compared to the oilless screaming banshee I had before, but the 2 stage is not as quite as I had hoped it would be.. that said, it put's out great air.. :bow: never lacking, even running my blaster for extended time...
 
ryoken said:
eh, to be honest, that's the one thing I'm not overly impressed with is noise.. I mean it's quite as he!! compared to the oilless screaming banshee I had before, but the 2 stage is not as quite as I had hoped it would be.. that said, it put's out great air.. :bow: never lacking, even running my blaster for extended time...
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That's good to hear.

The beast came to life today.:D

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It is a tad large.
 
Whoa. I wasn't expecting it to be that big. :eek1: I hope you've got it where you want it (for good).
 
Do you actually have 3 phase in your shop? Or does that have a convertor box on it already?
 
andyblack said:
Whoa. I wasn't expecting it to be that big. :eek1: I hope you've got it where you want it (for good).
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That's what she said. :pimp:

jekquistk5 said:
Do you actually have 3 phase in your shop? Or does that have a convertor box on it already?
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Haha, I wish I had 3 phase coming in, but I make due with a 10 horsepower phase converter. It was wired directly to my drill press, but im going to put in some way to distribute the power. The land I'm trying to buy has 3 phase run to it to power the center pivots though.
 
:haha::haha::haha:

What a funny guy.

So does this converter box have a starting capacitor since the 3 phase motor on the grinder won't have one? Or will you just have to add a cap on to the grinder's motor?
 
I still haven't wired in a starting capacitor, so I wrap a rope around the phase converter shaft, pull start it, then throw the disconnect on. The phase converter just sits there and spins while I'm not using the drill press or the grinder.
 
That will work. I have used a stick to get the fan spinning on an A/C outdoor unit that had a bad starting cap. However, a 5 uf cap for a similarly sized single phase motor will be cheap and convinient for your grinder. And possibly safer too. :D

You have to somehow incorporate that huge drill in your build too. It's just too awesome. :pimp:
 
After sitting on my butt for three months I finally got my new compressor. Now I need a regulator and some pipe to plumb the air over into the main shop.

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My one disappointment is that it has a WEG motor. Apparently Quincy uses both Baldor and WEG and there is no way to request one or the other.

And yes, that is an oil filter and pressure guage hanging off the front of the pump.
 
ryoken said:
mmmmmmmmmmmm, bender...... :popcorn:
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I've actually had that for several years and still haven't bought any dies for it. I aim to change that shortly. Once I get the driver side rocker welded to the slider, I won't be able to pull the cab off without welding in some kind of support structure to tie the two sliders together.

Air compressor plumbing is finished now.

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I ran three drops each of which got a drain valve and the "up and over" T joint.

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I got my phase converter V2.0 roughed out with all the major components mounted, I just need my McMaster order to arrive to get it fired up. No more pull starting for me.

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Now that I have the air system finished I can replace the driver side rocker panels. Damn I work slow.:haha:
 
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