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Got four Venturi burners in the mail today. I saved these when I built the new ceramic facilities for Temple University. I thought they'd be good for something else one day. I contacted Temple to see if they were still there and if they'd be willing to send them my way. Time to get things hot...

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deviant said:
Got some Venturi burners in the mail today. I saved these when I built the new ceramic facilities for Temple University. I thought they'd be good for something else one day. I contacted Temple to see if they were still there and if they'd be willing to send them my way. Time to get things hot...

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You gonna start melting metal in the garage? I worked in a shop making pewter figures up in Estes Park CO. I was involved in making to scale Mary Go Rounds and a bunch of these: Poured tons of tin and lead bars that year. I also took a foundry class in school, I had made a nice set of widened skate trucks and put them on a ton of boards way back in the 70's

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Tune-A-Fish said:
You gonna start melting metal in the garage? I worked in a shop making pewter figures up in Estes Park CO. I was involved in making to scale Mary Go Rounds and a bunch of these: Poured tons of tin and lead bars that year. I also took a foundry class in school, I had made a nice set of widened skate trucks and put them on a ton of boards way back in the 70's
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Every forge and foundry I've built has been forced air. I plan to try two of these out for both a forge and foundry application. I have my hopes the btu's will be plenty.
 
deviant said:
That is very cool. I still skate- been going strong since 1984.
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My firs board had steel wheels :-[ haha... this was all new back then and I remember my brother pulling one of our friends behind his bike "street surfin" and the kid Tony hit a rock and did not let go of the rope... busted teeth and skinned elbows kind of blood fest. Some things never leave our memories mang... Then it was BMX and I never looked back.
 
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Then it was BMX and I never looked back.
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Mid to late 70's we were all about tossing the banana seat and ape hangers off the bike we got for a birthday a few years before, stealing a seat off someones 10 speed and scoring BMX bars from the local Schwinn shop. OEM gooseneck would never grip the bars good enough so gramps taught me to drill a hole thru it and the bars and run a bolt thru it...if the bolt was too big bars would snap and make things real interesting.
 
Hah... Then came composite stars and those were everywhere (no more bent bunny hop rims) until we realized how heavy they were and spokes were back in a flash. We had no idea really... Once places like Woodward came on boards and bikes exploded, but still had to compete with the X-Box... Video killed more then the Radio Star!! It killed our kids health.

Oops, sorry keep it between the lines... fishy fishy fishy :eek:
 
95 - 96 YZF600R front discs for a certain GL conversion...

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On my way to another state to get a rigger/shipper sorted out for this guy right now, and to see it run in person before we fork over cash.

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deviant said:
I guess a forum full of garage builders is fading away... :eek: ;)
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Running manual machines is fun and all, until you start turning down a lot of money because you can't keep up, and the stretches of two, three weeks in a row of 18 hour days when a nuke plant places a big order are getting to be less and less fun.
 
A CNC mill would be great but it's the same size and price as a new car. Now a stamping press would be cool to make my own tanks...
 
Ha. Just a bit of needling. No criticism, just observing as there have been many conversation recently lamenting the difference in this site between now and the past. Of course you get the necessary equipment to run a business and keep up with workflow. But, building bikes with hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment is different than building bikes with hammers and logs in your garage late at night. Personally, I think it's good to have a place where you can rub elbows with industry guys.
 
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I just want good deals :eek:
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Same here. We don't finance shit. Bought too much stuff out of shops that has the bank selling it for them. If we can't pay cash for it, it's not for us. Keeps the overhead low.
 
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