by Donnie Hurt | Feb 1, 2020 | OTHER SHOP WORK
TIGHT TUBE BENDING Sometimes you may attempt to make a short tight bend in a piece of steel or copper tubing. If your tube bender will not make as tight of a radius as you might desire and know that if you try by hand it will kink, try this. By melting soft solder...
by Donnie Hurt | Jan 1, 2020 | CYLINDER HEADS
TAPED FOR PROTECTION When working with a customer’s brand new cylinder heads, I cover the finish machined ends with painters tape to avoid scratches during any finish procedures and assembly. When someone pays big money for a set of heads, the last thing they...
by Donnie Hurt | Jan 1, 2020 | TOOLING
ANYWHERE INDICATOR My Linebore didn’t have any indicators on the column and it’s nice to know the amount you are moving the bar. I just siliconed magnets on the back of these small indicators for easy set-up. I use them on the LineBore and other Machines....
by Donnie Hurt | Jan 1, 2020 | BLOCK WORK
SUNNEN CRG-750 FIXTURE TUNE UP I just used a set of LS main caps to shim the fixed surface plate (opposite the clamp) on our cap grinder. LS caps are normally cut very square to the sides, but first I verified these with a machinist’s square. I use dye chem on...
by Donnie Hurt | Jan 1, 2020 | OPERATIONS
WHY DOES THE HVAC TECH CHARGE MORE THAN THE MACHINE SHOP I had a short visit from our HVAC repairman today. It took him about 2-minutes to pop the access cover, grab a tester and proclaim that the flame sensor had shot-craps in our 10-year-old furnace. He’d been in my...
