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What's on your Work Bench?

Kim Dawson

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Picked up castings today. Drilled and tapped the step bumper end caps, de-burred the front bumper extensions, de-burred the front frame cover plates and cut and drilled the end pieces for them. I've been making two solar generators. I'm copying the Power Whisperer. I've got most of the sheet metal work done. Next is put them on wheels and fill in the electronics. Seems like now is a good time to have a little power back-up.
Probably be next week before I can get to the shop that will weld up the frame covers. Anyone interested, let me know.
 

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Ends are welded on the frame covers and some are packaged up and ready to go. Getting them out to those who asked. Anyone else want one, let me know. Solar power generators are coming along. The Jeep grab bars are going to make the perfect handle for the front.
 

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AdamH

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Can’t wait to get my frame cover @Kim Dawson it’ll sit on a shelf until I start on the ‘81 build but I can admire it until then
 

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Info on these "solar generators" please....
Thx
I'm learning as I go. A 12 V 100 AH AGM Battery is needed. The idea is to keep the battery charged until you need it. It powers a 2000 Watt Inverter so you can run110 Volt things such as a refrigerator or food freezer and small appliances. No matter how big or expensive the parts of the system are, things are only going to run as long as the battery lasts. You can add a second battery to the system. The Power Whisperer design allows you to recharge the battery either from 110 if available, or a solar panel (or two), or from the power socket (cigar lighter) in your vehicle. There are 4 breakers so you can choose what you want to work. This diagram used 30, 15, 30, and 5 amp circuit breakers. The later design changed from a 1 1/2 trickle charger to a 4 Amp trickle charger and upped the 5 amp to a 15 amp breaker. I'm using 2 amp trickle chargers with the 5 amp breakers. Had I known sooner, I would have gone to the charger with more amps. The solar panel needs a controller. Pictured is the one that I used. The metal box was made so a roll-up solar panel could fit inside to keep everything together and portable. A 45 foot lead cable for the panel fits inside also. That's the system. You can buy a new one for a little under 3K. You can build one for a lot less.
 

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mhinchliffe

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I CAN NOT TELL TOU how cool that is. I’ve been looking at truck campers and boondocking. This fits that perfectly. Thanks so much and I’ll commit this to memory.
 

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1972 model Emco V10 with the F1 milling head got some clean up and much deserved attention. I picked it up years ago and it’s paid for itself 10 times. It’s originally from a school system but isn’t an abused piece. It’s 3 phase 480 lathe motor and single phase mill. I made the rotary phase converter out of a salvaged 3 phase motor.
It’s not going to hog material in a few passes but small bites will get it where it needs to be. So it’s covered until the next “job”
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Found an old car horn refurbishing site. Now to get my old meep-meep to work =)
Jeep currently has a car horn 😣
Also shown, one of the elevator bolts for my rock guards. I ground them to slide right in. Easy peasy
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Got a bit distracted tonight, no transmission rebuild updates. But, I did get my last parts in today so I could build this:

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Missing a tooth up front, might need to scavenge a part from the Lego bin.
 

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Is that a kit? If not where did you find plans for it?
Unfortunately, not a kit. You have to buy the instructions which come with an inventory list, then buy each brick to create the kit.


I had to get bricks from 3 places. eBay, Lego USA, and Lego Denmark. The good thing is, you can sub the white bricks with red, or blue, or green. Then sub the stripe bricks with another set of colors to customize your build. At least within the limitations of available colors from Lego.

You can tell it is not an official Lego build by how sturdy it is. Definitely a display piece, not a play piece.
 

Kim Dawson

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My personal shopper came through with 10 wheels this year. Thanks Eric. I spent the day, and evening, prepping the wheels to be ready to leather cover. The power generators are mostly done. Just have to install the batteries and hook up the cables to them. I made the tops from cj7 floor panels (repos) that I hadn't used. Finally got to use them for something.
 

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