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Tunnel Frame Up
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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One Tunnel Frame Set
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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Potentiometer as a Sensor
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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Adding Limit Switches to the Drop Down Sides Motor Circuits
System at rest
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Wiring two relays to reverse the rotation direction of a DC motor
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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Electric Signs
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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Custom Ford Tailgate
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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Right Hand Drive
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…
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Honda Accord Body Resto and Paint
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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Eclipse Rear Quarter R&R
1991ish Mitsubishi Eclipse. I bought it for a $250, did the body repairs and sold it for $2500. Nice little car until it got T-boned and it was a nice little car again when I got done. The old mobile home in the background is something I picked up for free and used for storage…
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Skylark Rear Quarter R&R
A Skylark that got rear-ended. I worked the right rear quarter with hammers and dollies but the left was too damaged so another had to be welded on. Black, again and not only that but it had fine, multicolored metallic powder so it had to be done with basecoat – clearcoat and the clear had…
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1970 Chevy C20
Pretty much a body restoration and in my favorite color (NOT), black. Being a Florida truck(humidity), it not only rusted out down low in the usual places but also the roof, just above the windshield so I had to weld a whole new(used) roof on it and the glass had to fit back in afterwards.…