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planer crib.



Planer jig



Air Connection System



Hockey Stick Cat Track



Reinforcements (The Flat Bar is actually 5mm Square tubing, i didnt know that name at the time and the rod is 1 inch)



There is three of these truss supports





Poly Ethylene Cassette

Great post- keep 'em coming!

Nice start! Don't worry about cheap tools, we all start somewhere, and you're starting early! That fridge cabinet looks great too, I'm impressed.

But dude... sell the cavalier... You'll impress girls a lot more with homemade skis than with a clapped out cavalier

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(it's funny that you typed more saying you were too lazy to correct the capital letters than just re-typing the letters in lower case)

Do you have a drawing or sketch of your press? What kind of beams are you using? I-beams, or something else?

We have to do emissions in washington state too. Who buys a cavalier in the first place! :p

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a.badner wrote:
the frame feels sturdy extremely sturdy, but those 2x4 of steel, they seem kind of flimsy.

Our press was originally just three 2x4 steel beams top and bottom (two laying down flat, the middle one vertical). At ~30psi the beams had deflected about 3/4"!

We had to add vertical supports to keep the loads a bit safer (we did three 2" square bars on either side of the press)

You said the router bits got dull fast. If they are plain steel bits they will dull rather fast compared to higher grade bits. Not sure how you use your router but always do a rough cut w/ a jig saw. Then use the router. The bits aren't really made to go straight through material, especially if your router uses 1/4 inch bits. A 1/2 inch router can handle it but the bits will dull quicker that way.



As for the Cavalier.....We have emission inspection too in Mass. My daughter has a 1996 Volvo, a solid car (220,000+ miles) but the cost to fix emissions isn't worth the value of the car, IMO. After dumping $850 for emissions last year the check engine still came on so it failed again. So I found this "fix" by accident... Look for the ECU (Electronic Control Unit). It must have one somewhere or something similar. Unplug it. Then plug it back in. This made the check engine light turn off and pass emissions. Eventually the check engine light came back on. Mass used to use do emission tests from the tail pipe. Now they just plug into the cars computer.

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a.badner wrote: If you are reading this Iggy, these are Rich Fahey's old skis... before he got on the on3p team. tell him that. Oh if you guys dont believe me, go to you tuba and look up rich fahey slamina. he used this ski in the segment.

Wait.....so you want me to tell Rich that you are angry at his/now your skis?

I can do that, I suppose.

Maybe if you bought some ON3Ps instead your trekkers would still be alive

a.badner wrote:Here is my back country ski. I'm kind of angry at these skis. They broke two pairs of alpine trekkers. Sad

Just a thought...but you sure it wasn't those bindings that broke those trekkers?

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Looks like you're cracking on. You can re-sharpen the router cutters. You're checking the spinal speed matches your router speed before you trim your materials? Routers ...

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