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Pile of parts

Well-Known Member
Location
South Jordan
I've heard of mexi-chrome and understand the ghetto-gold, but I've never seen this type of rack. You'll have to educate me on it.

I built this one last week because I needed a way to get the kayaks to the lake when the camper was on. Then, I thought, I might as well make it capable of hauling a couple of bikes too. So, with a modified cargo basket and a dual receiver, I made this.

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Gravy

Ant Anstead of Dirtbikes
Supporting Member
Makes it easy to drag your SUP and all the kid's gear to the lake from the truck in one trip.
You just strap the SUP to the rack.
You should make one for your kayaks. You could even pin it together with toggles so you could disassemble it and bring it with you. It would make portage a breeze!
 

zmotorsports

Hardcore Gearhead
Vendor
Location
West Haven, UT
Silly little project that I did after work yesterday. I decided I had looked at my cut downspout long enough. I had cut one of them with my line trimmer about a month ago so I came up with a plan to add some thickness to it and while I was at it I may as well do the other two that are in the grass as well.
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I purchased some 4” thick walled couplers to wrap around the thinner 4” drainage pipe.
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I chucked them up in the lathe and removed the outside mold seam as well as the inside dividing ridge so they would fit snugly around the pipe.
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After removing from the lathe I clamped it in the mill vise and cut a section out of each one so they would snap over the drain pipes fairly snug.
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Ready to dig up a little grass and install.
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I cut a little grass out around the downspout and then replaced the grass after installation. That should prevent further cuts.
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Now I can trim with ease of mind that I won't cut through the thin wall drain pipe.

Mike
 

zmotorsports

Hardcore Gearhead
Vendor
Location
West Haven, UT
I don’t know why I waited so long to get one of these...

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This thing is awesome!

You will like it. It's a nice tool to have for smaller projects and is well thought out. I've had mine for several years and finally got around to painting it about a year ago. I would like to have a larger press brake as well as a pan brake but just can't justify the footprint for the projects that I do so this one fits the bill nicely.

Mike
 

zmotorsports

Hardcore Gearhead
Vendor
Location
West Haven, UT
Last night after arriving home in triple digit heat I mowed my lawns and then cut down my pole jacks in the shop. It was a little cooler in the shop @ 93 degrees.

I have been doing a lot of suspension work lately and have discovered that a shorter pole jack or two would be beneficial. Summit Racing had these Sunnex 1500 lb. capacity pole jacks on sale a couple of weeks ago so I ordered two of them.
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The Sunnex ones are actually a little nicer than my NAPA ones that I’ve had for about 8 years now so I decided to cut my older NAPA pole jacks rather than my new ones.
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I figured ones in the 38”-42” would be ideal so I removed them from their base and cut about 22” off of each one. I then had to machine a small amount off so they would slip into the base.
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After test fit I marked where the 5/8” hike needed to be drilled for the retaining pin.
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One down and one to go.
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Those should work perfect with a collapsed height of 31” and a raised height of around 52”.
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Thanks for looking.

Mike
 

Herzog

somewhat damaged
Admin
Location
Wyoming
what's with the 5 different blade pieces? is there a reason they aren't equally sized or just a single piece?

This video will explain much better than I can. :cool:


You will like it. It's a nice tool to have for smaller projects and is well thought out. I've had mine for several years and finally got around to painting it about a year ago. I would like to have a larger press brake as well as a pan brake but just can't justify the footprint for the projects that I do so this one fits the bill nicely.

Mike

I've used it to bend up some brackets already and it's amazing how much time I've saved so far. And the bends look quality! I'm really liking this thing.
 
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