At 02:03 PM 1/10/02 -0800, Mike Lee - Team Banana Racing wrote:
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>So I finally got the nice Lincoln service jack that I've wanted for quite a
>while. Now that I have it though, I can't figure out a good way to use it
>w/o possibly damaging the cars' undercarriages. I could have sworn that the
>jack I saw had something to lift a car by the pinch weld; looked sort of like
>a plastic block with a slit in it, but the jack I got has a standard cup-like
>lift pad. Do you guys know what I'm talking about and where to get one?
I haven't seen what you are talking about. But when I use my floor jack,
1. I don't jack from the "reinforcement" on the sills. I jack either from
the cross brace under (in front of) the engine, or the rear end (or axle
in the case of front wheel drive cars. On some cars, I have a chassis
and I jack a corner via the chassis.
2. If I don't want to mar the chassis, I place a scrap piece of carpet on the
cup for the jack.
>Present #2 was a neat little tv/vcr combo to stick in the workshop. I've
just
>got to find a way to route the cable to it. On the side of my house,
there are....
>he had some he called a "warbler" (?) which he used to determine where some
I've seen them. One of the networking fellows at work has one for tracing
the various cables in the cable troughs. Don't know how much they cost.
>And finally, I got a nifty little carbon fiber do-dad for my motorcycle; an
>exhaust heat guard. To install it requires welding 2 nuts onto the exhaust
>pipe.....
In stead of welding to the pipe, can you make a band to go around the exhaust
pipe and bolt it together to clamp onto the exhaust and then have part of it
go up and turn 90 deg. so you can bolt your heat guard to it?
If not, I think I'd talk to a professional welder and see about using SS.
I've never tried to weld SS with my mig welder. It requires a different
set up, wire, gas, and polarity (I think). So for the little SS that I
deal with, I can't justify the cost. I farm that stuff out.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III
65 Rambler Classic
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