- 1. Re: Shipping an engine (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 10:30:52
- That's what I did when I shipped my tranny. I made the box from either 1/2" or 3/4" plywood (I can't remember right now) and added some places to bolt the tranny rear mount. I bolted the bellhousing
- /html/shop-talk/1998-09/msg00012.html (7,798 bytes)
- 2. Re: Shipping an engine (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 10:44:39
- Let's see, I've got two stories. I used a moving company and they managed to drop a large, heavy box on a freshly painted (as in, I picked the car up from the bodyshop the night before the moving van
- /html/shop-talk/1998-09/msg00013.html (8,026 bytes)
- 3. Re: Kerosene (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:46:21
- I dunno about the big city, but around here many of the "convenience store" type gas stations have one pump dedicated to kerosene. In fact, the station that used to have a Cam2 pump converted it to k
- /html/shop-talk/1998-08/msg00009.html (8,090 bytes)
- 4. RE: Shop Equipment for sale (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 07:09:01
- Maybe so, but some companies *will* sell the tanks. I bought a set of tanks years ago, because I planned on keeping them and didn't feel like paying rental charges forever. John Lye rjl6n@Virginia.ed
- /html/shop-talk/1998-06/msg00053.html (7,855 bytes)
- 5. Re: Leak-Down Testing (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 07:44:49
- I'll do my best, but you'll get what ya' pays fer... Yup, that's about it. Sorta - if there's little to no leak, a larger orifice will just allow the system to stabilize faster. If there's a big leak
- /html/shop-talk/1998-05/msg00083.html (8,585 bytes)
- 6. Re: Leak-Down Testing (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:00:15
- Good point - I built my own before I knew this and probably spent close to taht (even if you don't include my time). John Lye rjl6n@Virginia.edu
- /html/shop-talk/1998-05/msg00089.html (8,308 bytes)
- 7. Re: Leak-Down Testing (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 07:11:44
- Check out the British cars monster vendors list (there's lotsa other good stuff there as well): http://www.dimebank.com/monster/vendors.html later, John Lye rjl6n@Virginia.edu
- /html/shop-talk/1998-05/msg00095.html (8,073 bytes)
- 8. Re: Cheap workbench advice wanted. (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 07:32:19
- Mine hasn't, but then I put a fesh piece of cardboard down for every new job. That gives me a nice clean surface each time. John Lye rjl6n@Virginia.edu
- /html/shop-talk/1998-04/msg00082.html (8,950 bytes)
- 9. Re: Loc-Tite vs. Anti-Sieze (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 07:33:59
- ...except heat. Lok-Tite breaks down with heat over 250 degrees (F) for most of the products (there may be a high heat version, but I don't know about it). So, if you can get heat to the part, you ca
- /html/shop-talk/1998-04/msg00148.html (7,834 bytes)
- 10. Re: From: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu> (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:13:25
- About 25 years ago, when I worked in the gas station, I used one of the big overhead-type air-driven grease guns and it worked quite well. Can't help you with specifics, but I'm thinking about one, t
- /html/shop-talk/1998-03/msg00005.html (6,636 bytes)
- 11. Re: From: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu> (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:46:16
- Its never stopped me before! The only real advantage that I see, is that the air-powered ones let you operate them one handed. All you have to do is pull a trigger, not pump the lever. What this lets
- /html/shop-talk/1998-03/msg00008.html (7,333 bytes)
- 12. Re: Air Compressor (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:40:00
- Eh, what's that you say????? I'll second that. I wished that I had realized just how annoying they can be *before* I'd bought mine! I've got one of the Sears "6.5 hp" models and while it puts out eno
- /html/shop-talk/1998-03/msg00019.html (8,450 bytes)
- 13. Re: HVLP Spray guns (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 07:05:28
- snip The guy I share a garage with has one of those self-contained HVLP guns that he got at Lowes- I think that its a Campbell Hausfield brand. It actually works quite well; we've painted the race ca
- /html/shop-talk/1998-02/msg00100.html (7,266 bytes)
- 14. RE: HVLP Spray guns (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:12:01
- No question about that; I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Again, I'm not too surprised. My only real point in the original response was that I was pleasantly surprised at how well the C/H sprayer wor
- /html/shop-talk/1998-02/msg00102.html (7,478 bytes)
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