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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
The "How-To" of a Shop-Made Rod Lathe Using Only Hand ToolsBy Richard Wetzel2301 61st Street, Lubbock, Texas 79412-3320 Last fall, 1997, I sent pictures of a shop-made rod lathe using only hand tools, a ¼ inch drill motor and some welding. You expressed interest, so I submit this article which might be of interest to your readers who need to re-babbitt their connecting rods during their restoration process. The chassis is a Ford cylinder head, however, any block iron could be used, as long as it had a milled surface for the top, and a milled surface on the side and end, with each surface 90 degrees to each other. On one end the chassis is supported with angle iron legs. The other end is supported with a plate ½ inch thick with 6 inch width---to this plate 2 inch x 1 inch channel irons were placed ¾ inches apart--these channels are placed after the center line of ... 800 of 2995 characters shown.
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