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How big is the sheet metal brake?
Flywheel cracks
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slimt
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Dang
you have everything there.. do you do alot of rebuilds? any Fabric work at all? like on the Cubs , Scouts, Vikings?
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Boy we're taking his thread way to the left.. lol. Which one?? That's an 8' in the picture, I also have a 12' in the hangar, as well as 4' and 12' power shears... and a Bridgeport..
You bend it.. I'll mend it! .. but I HATE fabric!
65wgn440
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Can I ask why you are using a lathe to turn your flywheel when you also have a Bridgeport ? I have turned flywheels for commuter car jobs a couple times myself, but always have my flywheels surfaced on mill, per my machine shop guys recommendations.
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It's a lot easier to dial it out on the lathe to make sure it's running true than to make sure it's sitting flat on a milling bed.
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Well I got my flywheel back from the shop today. Apparently the cracks were deeper than I thought. Is it scrap metal now? The guy at the machine shop said it’s fine and that he runs em like that all the time. Idk
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How much did he take off of it? And from what I see in the pic, I would run it behind a stock engine.....
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I’m not sure how much he removed but it wasn’t much.
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