Aside from automotive work, I spent 20+ years building custom electric signs, I did quite a bit of work for theme parks like Disney and Universal Studios. They’re pretty picky, especially Disney who have their own electrical and mechanical engineers to spec out how things are to be built and they inspect everything before it […]
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Here’s a little better view of the truck crane. I have to climb up and reach over the yellow straps to crank the come-a-long to raise/lower the tunnel frame. And the straps and chain bracing inside the bed of the truck. The ladder is footed against a pallet and the pallet is chained down because
Here’s a little better view of the truck crane. I have to climb up and reach over the yellow straps to crank the come-a-long to raise/lower the tunnel frame. And the straps and chain bracing inside the bed of the truck. The ladder is footed against a pallet and the pallet is chained down because
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I had rigged up a 24vdc gearmotor to run a drum/spool with cable and was planning to use it to open/close the drop down sides on the high tunnel. The cable would start mounted to the drop down frame, go up and wrap around the drum 4-5 times, go back down through a pulley at
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Here’s how the two SPDT relays work to reverse polarity/direction of a DC motor. I’ll be using this circuit to open/close high tunnel sides and gable vents based on the temperature inside the tunnel and will also be closing the sides in high winds. If it’s hot and windy, I’ll have them close 80% of
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This was a fun project. The customer didn’t like any aftermarket Air Gates so he had me build him a custom job. He had no idea how I was going to do the latch system and neither did I when I started. That’s what made it fun, freestyling it. I used stainless steel aircraft cable
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My wife worked as a Rural Mail Carrier for a time and they have to provide their own vehicles. Some people find old rhd mail jeeps, some people use other factory rhd vehicles like Subarus and newer model jeeps, some people use aftermarket rhd kits and some people straddle, using their left foot and hand
Did this for a buddy’s daughter. My buddy was watching me paint it and I don’t like having an audience, so while I was spraying the base coat, rather than walk around the car with the air hose, I flicked it over top of the car while looking at him and I wasn’t exactly smiling.
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