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What have you made lately?

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Making "spacers" for an engine stand to bolt up a Chevy 235 engine. One of the projects that has been on the back burner too long.
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Wow! Good call on IDing "it" from just a little pic!!! :thumbup

It's a Hardinge long bed copy made in Taiwan, 12" x 36". It's 40+ some years old and super cool. Wish it was mine, fortunately it's at a good friend's machine shop.

the single wide bed way is a pretty dead giveaway.... and there is one here at work i've spent a bit of time hunched over making parts for my own projects so the headstock looks pretty familiar :teeth

even the copies are so much more capable than my machining skills it's rediculous what the real deal super precision ones can do

what's the plan for the 235? i have a soft spot for inline 6s. especially that weird braaaapfarrrrt they make with straight pipes
 
It's a spare motor for this one that sits in a '50 Chevy Panel.
This motor is a '55 - 235, (30 over), Corvette block casting number but distributor pad is stamped as a truck motor. I've only seen one other block cast / stamped this way. My guess is Chevy had a few of '55 - 235 blocks left over and they got moved to the truck line.

It's running the Corvette dual exhaust manifold, Thickston 2x1 intake, Rochester B carbs, and solid lifter truck cam. Ha, ha and the exhaust pipes currently end just past the firewall. :laughing
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Good old stovebolt. I've put a few miles on one of those myself. I'll share some wisdom from one of my gifted friends; "Those things will lug forever, and they will wind up once,". :laughing
 
Making "spacers" for an engine stand to bolt up a Chevy 235 engine. One of the projects that has been on the back burner too long.
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Hardinge?

Never mind, I just caught up on the thread.:gsxrgrl
 
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Weird, I went to get my Speed - d burr (or whatever it's called) to speed whip some sheets to send to a plating shop today. I SOLD MY FUCKING TOOL BOX! Sorry, it's strange to not be able to go to my rollaway and get the tools that I have used for over 35 years.

Life will move on, and the plating shop will get raw material that I did not deburr:teeth
 
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Another project from about 2 weeks ago that was just kind of spur of the moment build. Wood was left over from a gate and fence build around Daughter's chicken coop this past winter.

Had some Black Bamboo (large canes turn black as they grow) sitting neglected in corner of the yard. Transplanted to this red pot, got a new saucer and painted it to match planter.

Plant stand.
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For most of this past year, I've been working on a new pipe organ for a large church in San Francisco. We're a couple of months from completion and this video shows some (by no means even most) of the stuff that goes into these. I built a high percentage of what you'll see:

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