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CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Glad to hear that Rick. A man needs to know when to check his privilege.:embarrassed:

Absolutely! If I ever have the chance to own a limo, it will have 1) trailer hitch for the boat 2) 4x4 drive train and 3) rifle rack in whatever rear window it might have. And I'll drive it myself, just like that neighbor does.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Uh Al, John's "limo" is actually an ATV. He doesn't believe that though and had to order it full cab, doors and all. Won't get it dirty, even feather dusts it in the garage. :rofl: Oh well, it's his toy.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Bret, I've used a Hi-Lift jack to break tire beads loose my whole life. Throw the wheel under something heavy (like the machine it came off of), put the jack foot on the sidewall against the wheel rim, and try to jack the machine up. When it breaks, index the wheel 1/3 turn and repeat.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
we had one of those harbor freight push down on the handle 19.99 wonders.
it actually worked pretty well.
then I realized a tire shop would do the job for 4$ and it was taking me an hour to break down a tire with the spoons and another 15 minutes to balance it on the little bubble balancer we had.
it's even further away from me doing that stuff now that it's free with road hazard [but the 75 mile drive is a pain to get it done]
 

Ian

Notorious member
After fighting through the last skid kitty tire change I do believe I'll be paying someone else to do the next ones. It's $20 here at the local tire station but still money well spent.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Juice Newton . . . now there's a name I hadn't heard since sometime in the '80s. May still have the CD with "Angel of the Morning" , and a song about the memories of an aged rodeo star.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
I have stacks of LPs from about 1956-86' lot of originals from the original release like the Richie Valens album ......Mom and Dad's stash , most of mine , some of my kids .

I had/have an HF manual tire post . Once I got it bolted down solid it worked pretty well and unfortunately I got pretty good at it ...... Fortunately after my move I have a full on real live Coats machine . As long as we keep the air and moving parts wet it's really nice .
I bought a tall bubble balancer and I have a bucket full of steel , plastic , zink etc WW . Takes me about 20 minutes to have the wheel back on whatever we're fixing . I just wish I had the stop pin extension for it it's make the dual wheels a lot easier . The 8 holes don't ride the balancer well ........ They have to be manually centered as they are too big to catch the cone and set on the shoulder . It's not dynamic balance but for under 80-90 it's good enough . I just can't bring myself to pay $27.50 a tire for the M,B,R , road hazard that's only $60 to start with .
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
I also have the HF handle bead breaker, kinda cheezy but it has worked on the tires I have used it on.
I am tending more towards Ian's solution, pay the man to do the tire swaps with the nice machines.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
I did ENOUGH tire busting in my teens and 20s to last me a lifetime. No mas--I have been happy to let the shop do that work since 1981. I'll change the assembly if a flat occurs on the road, but wrasslin' the tire off the wheel ain't happenin' here no mo'. Heck, with AAA insurance they will send a tech out to do THAT, if I want. I haven't so far, in 19 years. (KNOCKING ON WOOD HERE)--I haven't had a flat tire in 5 years+. Marie hasn't either.

Her last 2 were memorable, though--Jan. 2013 WAY off-highway in our Jeep, in the El Paso Mountains south of Ridgecrest. It entailed a delightful and cold overnight stay on a hillside near the talc mines, for which we were prepared but weren't impressed by. Kern Co. SD sent out their Raptor 4x4 truck, and we did a cross-country route that the deputy knew of to get out of the back-country ahead of a storm that came boiling over the Sierras just as we hit pavement outside Inyokern. That Jeep did most of the route--including a HAIRY washout dive-and-climb-out--on 3 inflated tires. The spare and the right rear were flat, the RR wheel did not survive the drive. We towed the Jeep to the tire shop and got 4 new tireas on the surviving wheels so Marie could drive to work, and ordered a new wheel. And a 5th new tire. Jeep Wranglers are IMPRESSIVE VEHICLES.
 

Intheshop

Banned
Had a nice afternoon blasting rifles down at our, "Chopping Bottom" river range with a cpl buds yesterday. Both seasoned hunter/shooters. But they've only been hearing me blabber about CB's. They thoroughly enjoyed shooting them. One rifle was especially nice.... 1960 #70 Winchester 243. I got extremely lucky guessing at a fit on the RCBS 95G..... and 20g of 4895.

Gave a quick explanation on ballistics,fit and the importance of fire forming then ran one up the med target profile barrel/chamber. Spot on,got a nice engrave on the leade,and the first drive band was scuffed filling the freebore. His scope had target turrets with an adj zero stop. Cranked in 6" of elevation and it was off to the races. They both were grinning from ear to ear with the mild report,tack driving accuracy,and interestingly ...... they were most impressed with the lack of barrel heat.

They shot my '06 150g Lee load and liked it as well. Along with my 7-08, with 130's. They "needed" the bench work..... I would have preferred offhand or semi supported PRS barricade style because of the hunting nature of the rigs. Just want to make a positive impression on guys/gals exposing them to CB's in rifles. Thankfully these boys blast buckets of lead in handguns so are pretty familiar.
 
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Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Uh Al, John's "limo" is actually an ATV. He doesn't believe that though and had to order it full cab, doors and all. Won't get it dirty, even feather dusts it in the garage. :rofl: Oh well, it's his toy.

Rick tends to exaggerate, when it comes to the "limo". BTW, he dubbed it that.

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It was purchased for working the acreage, not so much, as personal transportation. Full cab because I went with the snow plow option. Comes in handy when it rains, too. Windshield folds down and provides plenty of ventilation. However, initial time down a trail.................I keep the windshield up. Rick found out why, the other day. Face full of orb weavers, is the result. Doors are removable but easier to just bungee them open, in good weather.

Have rear plow, for use when putting in the food plot.

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In fact, today I plan on doing the initial plowing for the Fall seeding. We got a little over a inch of rain, the other day, it should keep me from eating too much dust.

I do like to keep all my toys, clean and maintained. That goes for all my vehicles. Pays off in the long run.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
That's a cute little disc. I had one the same size that went on a 1950's Simplicity walk behind tractor that originally had a 3hp motor on it and no doors. Times change.

I've used a hi lift jack, the out rigger on a backhoe, bucket on a loader and several other methods up to and including a sawzall. For the stuff under 17-18", Earl across the road has a commercial tire machine that usually works if we sweet talk it. On the bigger stuff, farm tires and such, my favorite way was to call Terry the Tire Man and $10 later they were fixed. Terry is almost in a wheel chair last I heard. So I do what I can. The only large tire shop in town wants you to bring the tire to them. Ever hump even a small tractor tire, say a 14.9-28, into the back of an F350 the previous owner put a lift kit in? Fun. It's all filthy, dirty, hard work even with the right tools.

Not sure what's on the schedule today. Moved the sheep to fresh graze last evening, gotta wait for Mon to get one last bearing for the round baler, wife and girls are going to the movies this afternoon. Still too mad at the pastor and politics to go to church. Might work on the skid steer and surely I'll knock down hay if the sun comes out.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Just finished stapling up the wires for a new garage door opener. The install wasn’t difficult, just a ton of fiddly work.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
the track and speed and stupid adjustments can take as much time as the rest of the installation.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Haven’t gotten to speed yet. It goes up and down and for now that is enough.
 

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Pulled a Butler Creek carbon fiber barrel off my 10/22 and put an Adams and Bennet heavy match barrel on. Removed the Burris FastFire II and installed a Nikon P-22 2x7x32 scope.
This used to be my lightweight Jackrabbit rifle. Now I just want to shoot tiny groups on paper with it.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Been working on these all week off and on and finished them up earlier today. They started out as a 3" x 3" x 18" block of 6061-T6 aluminum. Cut into 6 pieces, milled square and to size (2.750") within .002 on all six sides, and bored out to 2.580" straight and concentric to .002". Then drill and tap four 8-32 holes on each end, cut a 1" wide slot in one side, and finish up (today's activity) by cutting a 1/16" radius on eight edges using a corner rounding endmill.

This is another one of those jobs where you end up removing 75% or more of what you start with.

I'm not going to make much on these, but I got a chance to use several new tools. A while back I bought a compound angle plate from Shars just for jobs like this. It is superbly accurate and made squaring up the blocks easy. I also bought a 3" diameter 7 tooth facing cutting from Shars. It allowed me to cut the block faces in one pass, without having to "step over". There were surface quality as well as dimensional tolerances to hold and being able to cut a surface in one pass is like fly cutting only 7 times faster.

I enjoy doing jobs like this but we don't usually make much on them. I do them as a courtesy for one of our best customers, they give us thousands of dollars of work every year and when they need something special done for one of THEIR customers I try to help them out.

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Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
When making a bore that large what is your normal process? Drilling even an inch hole then using a boring head would be horribly time consuming.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Ruger 10/22s are almost as much of a "Barbie Doll" as an AR-15. I have Burris 2x-7x variables on my 22 Win Mag and 22 Hornet bolter CZs. Given the "quarry size range" and engagement distances involved with their cartridges, the magnification span seemed about right. No complaints, so far. I have a whatzis 4x on the 10/22 currently, and have been thinking about a glassware upgrade to a Leup #58550 (4x). Another Burris would do as well, so I am rolling the idea around for a bit. The Leups are scarce, back-ordered everywhere.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Brad, I drilled through with a 1" drill and then used a 1-1/4" six flute end mill to circular mill the bore halfway in from each end while leaving about .025" in the bore. (11 passes at .125" depth of cut) Once I had a hole all the way through I used a 2-1/2" dovetail slide type boring head to bore the final size in one pass. It wasn't a very time efficient way to do it, the next time I'll throw it up on the manual lathe in the four jaw chuck and bore it out close and then finish it up on the CNC mill. I would have done it that way this time except I really wasn't in that big a hurry and while the mill was cutting away I was working on other projects.