Kern Dog

[Photon440]

How about some micro laser welding?

 

[Kern Dog]

Dang....I'll bet that welding rod is as thin as sewing thread.

 

[Kern Dog]

 

[kiwigtx]

How about some micro laser welding?
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That looks like the 10mm socket I lost last week.

 

[Islandkent]

Jesus Greg, your famous!

"Kern Dog" The Movie

 

[Mike67]

If you are using flux core ( gasless) MIG, you might need to reverse the polarity on your machine...

 

[beanhead]

Welded some aluminum plate and supports up for my guys to mount some panels....I don't do it often, but I've done worse

 

[Dajkzo]

My homemade rotary weld positioner and the exhaust pieces for my boat (it's got a 431 stroked B block and a tunnel ram)

 

[Dajkzo]

None of my friends will ride in the boat, what is wrong with people?

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

None of my friends will ride in the boat, what is wrong with people?

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Sign me up for a ride in that bad boy!

 

[moparmarks]

None of my friends will ride in the boat, what is wrong with people?

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Hell with riding in it. I want to drive it like I stole it and then ski behind it. Way cool boat.
Back in the 80's a friend had a 24' ponyhaul V-drive with a blown 392 Hemi. Scary fast.

 

[Roger63]

None of my friends will ride in the boat, what is wrong with people?

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Maybe it's not the boat? But the operator

 

[Dajkzo]

Hell with riding in it. I want to drive it like I stole it and then ski behind it. Way cool boat.
Back in the 80's a friend had a 24' ponyhaul V-drive with a blown 392 Hemi. Scary fast.

The boat is a 1968 17'6" Rayson-craft built by the late Rudy Ramos. I've stripped the hull down to nothing and built new stringers, spent a lot of time getting several old paint jobs off. The motor ran "ok". Basic 9:1 383 with 452 heads and a Comp Nostalgia cam. I used the block and the main caps...... Got a 440 source stroker kit and heads with an XE280S cam. Found the Wieand tunnel ram on EBay.With a 25% overdrive and a 12x11 2 blade wheel it turns 6800 which is 75mph. I know it will pull the same rpm with more overdrive, but this hull is not safe at those speeds. The hull is in body shop jail getting paint. The transom is an exotic wood veneer I vacuum bagged on. And then I liked the Mopar motor so much, I went and got my RR and I'm building a better motor hehehehe

I apologize for going off on a tangent. But I bet Kern Dog likes drag boats.

 

[Dajkzo]

Maybe it's not the boat? But the operator

BTW, I named the boat "Doc Holiday". It's a nickname I picked up while deployed with the Marine Corps.

 

[Budnicks]

I like Drag Boats

I lived next to the owners & helped out with their
Record Holder BFFB & Nostalgia Dragster

Driver/more like a pilot, renowned Al Bush RIP
we were talking about his wild rides, in Blown Fuel Flatbottoms
I once asked Al how many boats he had sank, blown up etc.
he still holds the records as far as I know still today
they stopped racing BFFB, too dangerous, too many deaths & wrecks
(like the fuel altereds of drag boats)
he said;
"All of them" with a snicker

 

[Geetex]

I like Drag Boats

I lived next to the owners & helped out with their
Record Holder BFFB & Nostalgia Dragster

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Driver/more like a pilot, renowned Al Bush RIP
we were talking about his wild rides, in Blown Fuel Flatbottoms
I once asked Al how many boats he had sank, blown up etc.
he still holds the records as far as I know still today
they stopped racing BFFB, too dangerous, too many deaths & wrecks
(like the fuel altereds of drag boats)
he said;
"All of them" with a snicker

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As they say, there's only two kinds of boat racers, those that have been wet and those that are gonna be. I've spent some years around boat racing also, I love it.

 

[snakeyes]

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Nice quilt

 

[BDF6]

None of my friends will ride in the boat, what is wrong with people?

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Sissys.
1st time I went 100+ MPH was on the water in my uncle's flat bottom v-drive with a 4 Webers powered 426 HEMI.
That's when I caught the need for speed. I was about 8-9 years old and he had the fastest boat on the lake.
I need to find some pictures of that boat.

 

[Kern Dog]

Holy crap.....That sounds equal parts dangerous and fun.

 

[Dajkzo]

Sissys.
1st time I went 100+ MPH was on the water in my uncle's flat bottom v-drive with a 4 Webers powered 426 HEMI.
That's when I caught the need for speed. I was about 8-9 years old and he had the fastest boat on the lake.
I need to find some pictures of that boat.

I was about the same age. My family always had boats, I grew up on the Jersey Shore on the Navesink river. Someone in the boat club built an SK (eastern version of a drag boat) and took me for a ride along with my grandfather. I sat facing the engine which was a big block Ford.
Over the years I got into sportfishing and then got away from boats until I was lying in the hospital having gotten several units of blood and was told I had stage 3 cancer. I was looking at youtube and came across a video of a restored drag boat and that "SOUND". So I decided I needed something I could do while going thru chemo. I got a boat with a B-block and then got the Mopar bug and here I am, cancer in remission, back working at a job I enjoy, spending my time/money on a hot-rod boat and car. At least they use a lot of the same parts.