tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775124843922325772024-02-18T21:27:26.811-08:00Monkey Likes ShinyA place for things that make your brain run wild. Motorcycles, concepts, Cars, Bicycles, Art, and who knows what else that comes out of the brain of Jeff TiedekenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03806030099077119102noreply@blogger.comBlogger298125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377512484392232577.post-35187875271819226552015-11-21T00:38:00.001-08:002015-11-21T00:38:14.520-08:00Going with the flow... plus a pat on the back makes it even easier ! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The last year has been so awesome... Everything has been moving right along with the shop set up and jobs... I love my craft just as much as I always have and its been rewarding mentally and financially.... well as long as people don't want their parts to be made the next day, as they seem to come to expect more then they should.... But overall its been awesome and the projects have been very fulfilling and meaningful so its easy to let yourself go the extra mile.<br />
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There is nothing better feeling that feeling of satisfaction in what you do and then to put the cherry on top, having someone notice it and want to let you know that you doing a good job.<br />
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One of these little rewards/pats on the back came in the mail the other day from the Swiss company <a href="http://www.optrel.com/" target="_blank">Optrel Welding Helmets</a> , the makers of in my opinion the best welding helmet I have used in my 10+ years of professional aerospace welding experience. I figured its kinda a neat little to show some of my old Optrel helmets in this post and thank Optrel for noticing me and my love for my craft and making sure my eyes are safe and I am stylized with their super sick helmets. People always ask me why I have so many helmets and a lot has to do with my field of work and traveling so much, it was always easier for me to have a traveling helmet and a shop helmet and over time one or more extra helmets popped up and I would give it to Gabe, Austin or some other helper, I have had a lot of Optrel hemets... heres just some of them main 3<br />
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Yeah I am smiling!</div>
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heres some of the line up and some stories....</div>
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This baby has so many miles.... Helmet #2</div>
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Shes been with me a long time...</div>
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This is a Optrel Satalite helmet before they went to numbering the models</div>
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The sticker on the side is the Good Sam insurance logo but modified to be a Bad Sam </div>
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My MLS logo stickers I designed to fit over the Made in the USA stickers because I was cheap and didn't want to pay someone to make me a fancy sticker.... I just scaled it and made it clear to fit over the top of another USA flag sticker and it worked!</div>
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Helmet #2 other side had some sweet cat stickers and the Exploratorium Science museum decals</div>
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This is Helmet #3 which has about 1,000 hours on it so far</div>
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Its a Optrel 680 , I beat this thing up to no end and travel with it. I have been doing a ton of Flux and heave steel Mig welding so its got some grime on it... </div>
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Who doesn't love Wyoming !!!</div>
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Red Bull rampage stickers because I make the decals for the event so hell yeah I am going to put one on!</div>
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The otherside of helmet #3 is plain with just my friends flower stickers...</div>
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I love flowers... Maybe if I ever leave my shop I will have a garden with some real ones...</div>
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This baby is Helmet #1 I got maybe in 2005 when Optrel was making the helmets for Lincoln Electric. This baby has seen a good amount of air time on Discovery channel and TLC welding on shows like Biker Build off and so on. </div>
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Awesome story is in 2007 while filming on Discovery, the producers of the show made me put a piece of tape over the Hanna Montana sticker because they didn't want to pay royalies if it appeared in clear shot. Dirty Kings sticker was my buddies band... they broke up ... as all bands do..</div>
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My best friend Thick pinstriped up my name because everyone in the shop while filming had the same helmets as a sponsorship deal so if you didn't want sweat from someone else ... you put your name on it... Some of the other decals came later when this helmet became the loner like the flower and the Oakland sticker. </div>
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Looking on helmet #1 other side you see the beloved shovelman sticker, this is a crazy dude that made a crazy amazing sounding guitar out of a scoop shovel... hell yeah I am going to put his sticker on my helmet, who makes a shovel your main instrument. Peter Fonda up top for the win!</div>
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Again.... do I need to say it... Wyoming rocks !!! </div>
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Here she is.... the newest and most badass helmet out there...</div>
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For you lazy guys... it does it automatically based on the arc intensity! </div>
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Heres the side view of the <a href="http://optrel.com/en/eye-protection/expert/e684.html" target="_blank">Optrel e684 welding helmet </a> .... its badass... I don't think I need to write anymore...</div>
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I can't thank Optrel enough for protecting my eyes in style for 10+ years and being a industry leader in the helmets with still enough heart to notice a young dude so stoked about sticking metal together that they feel they need send out their Rolls Royce of helmets just to make him smile even more!</div>
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I wrote this a while back and put it in my drafts to publish some day, for some reason it just felt like a good time to post something I wrote maybe a year or two ago.... I really wrote it about a special guy Dave who works at the museum, because he is one of the cornerstones of hands on science museums and its been amazing calling him a mentor of mine. - JT<br />
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Its the reasons I wake up every day and do what I do, I love to use my talents to share with others and open their mind to use their talents and explore farther. <br />
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What better place to work and combine all my loves then at the Exploratorium Science Center located in San Francisco... A dream job.... even sweeping the floors at that place is a pleasure... because you can't go a day working there without a smile and a laugh. <br />
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I always tell people " I know I won't get to walk on Mars in my lifetime... but I know that something that I will do in my lifetime will help the person or persons that will do it... I feel like the person that will be part of that landing is a little kid knee high right now, walking around the museum laughing having fun and something that I had a part in will trigger their young minds to love science and when they grow up their love for science will help unlock questions we all wonder and push the envelope of understanding."<br />
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I think that if you don't think like that and have some sort of dream or pride of what your doing and how your helping in the overall scheme of things you will never feel the true worth in your work and have the drive to create things that will push the limits... Its to easy to look at the majority and say disheartening things about where we as a human race are headed... but remember their is one in a millions out there... young Elon Musks and young Henry Fords ready to take on the world and change it for the better... dreaming of them learning from your passion will give you a satisfaction you can't describe.<br />
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That dude at the Exploratorium I am talking about has almost been there since day one.... that's late 1960s and his name is Dave Fleming the San Francisco legendary exhibit builder and mastermind. <br />
Dave has these goals of building amazing projects and exhibits that not only teach but display and interact in ways of having fun with science that keep kids and adults spending hours and days at science centers across the world...<br />
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I don't really know how many exhibits worldwide Dave has made in his lifetime ( but I want to guess 300+) since he started in his late teens at the Exploratorium while still in college working under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Oppenheimer" target="_blank">Frank Oppenheimer</a> . The concept of doing hands on science center for all ages was not even thought of in the 1960s.... as some know this early group of builders get the credit of saying they really build the model of " hands on, interactive science exhibits in a museum environment".<br />
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If the Exploratorium would have not planted the science museum seed in the 1960s for the whole world, its makes me wonder what would be different??... This museum was and still is a building block of the San Francisco tech industry that we know around the world today... I think that's a good example to think about. What if there was no young minds learning about relays and magnets at the museum... would we have Iphones today.... would we have Silicon Valleys famous wafers that brought us in to a crazy era of computing.... something to think about.....<br />
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The crew like Dave can still be found working around the clock, with his awesome drive and passion for teaching science... Its amazing, I only hope when I have worked 25+ years in a career I have an overwhelming drive like this crew still has for their passion.<br />
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This is a normal view of Dave working in the shop around the clock...</div>
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From machining to wiring to designing, hes flying around the shop some times power walking because hes so excited to get to the next thing...</div>
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One of the cool projects for the new location of the Exploratorium that I got to team up with Dave on was a really neat Bay Bridge model to teach about how the bridge moves. As you can see up above that's Dave and I standing next to the bridge concepts in the movie below.</div>
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Dave's concept was to build a small 1/500 sized scale of the bay bridge and it was to be designed to be outside in the salty air on the end of the museum's pier running parallel to the real bay bridge so people could look and shake the model and compare it to the real thing only a mile away to get a better understanding how it moves in the wind and how it moves with load on it. </div>
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From day one I was pushing for Dave to design some really neat laser cut 316 stainless pieces with lots of details in them, so he did and thanks to Ryan at <a href="http://seaportstainless.com/" target="_blank">Seaport stainless</a> it was totally a possibility to make complex little part to look like the real bridge. </div>
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The next project was to bend up all the little pieces on my press brake and run them thru the tumbler to make sure everything was kid safe and no sharp parts. </div>
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My little DiAcro press brake bending up the laser cut bridge decks.. </div>
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One of Dave's major ideas on the mini Bay Bridge was to show how important the center cement anchorage support is on the bridge so he decided to build a interactive piece to show with and without the support.</div>
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THIS IS THE BEST PART !!!</div>
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Its been a busy summer like I expected moving in to the new shop....</div>
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Between traveling around and working with High schools and various other projects to traveling for Haas/Autodesk for tradeshows its been a blast and with all these social media things its sometimes hard to get back to the blog and keep it updated so I figured its about time. </div>
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I got a new Miller Dynasty 350 ( pictured in the back) for welding because once you use one you know how damn nice it is.... well I started to use it all the time and realized I got an idea... I am going to ship my older ( not really older) Miller Syncrowave back to my high school in New Ulm Minnesota without them knowing and see if they figure it out... </div>
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Ha Ha.... Well my shop teacher knew right away it wasn't any mistake and called me crying in joy... </div>
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That welder build me as an Aerospace welder and about 5 other top level fabricators I have trained as apprentices I can only hope it builds a few more being at the high school back in Minnesota. </div>
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I got a call out of the blue from some kids in a small community college in Hawaii asking for help....</div>
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They needed machining help on a project they were selected to be funded for, the project is super cool and called RockSat. Google it up and take a look, basically is a very simple version of satellites that shoot up to low orbit but fall back down to the earth without making an orbit, its more to teach students about getting every thing just right before you step in the next level which is Cubesats. </div>
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I offered to machine up the housing for them out of that giant block of Aluminum pictured above..</div>
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I love just cutting massive blocks of aluminium, what I don't love is having to haul my metal chip recycling in and dealing with the meth heads and weirdos of oakland that hang at the scrap place. its a give and take i guess....</div>
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USA made Doringer saw and the best beer out there Grain Belt from my home town in Minnesota!</div>
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I was asked about 6 months ago if I wanted to be an advisor and part of a group that would write the next level of Nation Standards for high schools and college students looking to get in to metal working. To give you an idea the other people on the board are Nasa, Google X, Sandia National Labs, Mori DMG, Autodesk and myself along with 4 other teachers. Its a great honor to be able to be part of that and know my questions are making kids scratch their head across North America.. </div>
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Just some good old Stainless Tig work.... I love building this stuff, this is my parts for my coffee maker for the shop but I do a ton of stuff like it for Ultra High Vacuum work for science labs and government labs. </div>
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Well its up and running.... It was the first big machine in to the shop and the last running.</div>
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Its a 6 axis waterjet that uses 50,000 psi of water pressure to be able to cut up to about 12" (1 foot!!!!) thick metal with one pass, it also has a rotary for doing advanced level tubing notching and cutting. </div>
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The cool story is the machine in the front was used at the NHS skateboard factory in Santa Cruz since the beginnings and it was so cool to see that its whole life it spent cutting off the mold flashing on the skateboard wheels and the machine had all kinds of programs for cutting the wheels still in the computer. The little machine in the rear is my little Mori SL-0h, both of these machines for the last 3+ years have been making hip replacement parts so its neat to see that an old Mori like that can still make great parts.</div>
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I turned 28 this year... Old bastard... behind me is my baby blanchard grinder, its the crazy machine that puts that wild spiral grind you see on bicycle disc brake rotors and really flat metal parts. It can be scary to run because shit flys off all the time and hits you in the stomach.... Watch out !</div>
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Its been a while since a post, I have been slammed traveling and working on getting the MLS shop ready. Its been such an adventure the last months of moving, setting up and traveling for projects, so glad to be around such amazing people all the time pushing for the future and how we make it happen. <br />
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He has been building this 1929 ford A for so long, looks like spring time dreams are going to happen for this guy, hes so close! </div>
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Went back to Minnesota for my best friend Jared's wedding because I was best man.. I made a trip to the Science Museum of Minnesota, this is a great place where a lot of magic started for me being a beta test kid for Lego Mindstorms V1 in the late 1990s. I was working with the Putting Green of New Ulm,MN designing a mini golf coarse that is now located in New Ulm and matching 18 holes behind the Science Museum of Minnesota located in St. Paul. So rad to be so young and given amazing opportunities to do something no one had tried yet... teach science using mini golf</div>
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Getting all these emails about how big the new Cincinnati press had me worried so days before it was to show up we decided we should beef up the floor for the machine and lock it down, always a good idea in California with earthquakes. </div>
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Move the kitchen table out of the way. We built this beast, Gabe and I did the welding, I designed it with Carl, Arthur cut the parts on the waterjet out of 1/2 steel plate left over from an old Exploratorium exhibit and Carl and Betz did the wood work. Any 1400 lb kitchen table needs lifting hooks, the green ends started its life as a old Rouselle straight frame punch press used for stamping steel sheet metal, the machine looked like it tipped over and cracked the frame and I found it at the scrap yard, put some life back in this old machine and enjoy USA in its sheet metal glory days. </div>
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Gabe and I broke out the floor and Austin finished it by putting in the 1/2 steel rod to tie it all together. We do a lot of the work ourselves because for Gabe and Austin its important they learn how to do it and were all not afraid to just get in there and work a lot. </div>
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I think I spoke too soon about people droppin presses because only days after moving my press table I got a call from a friend saying sorry he had dropped one of my machines I was hiding druing the move, he had tried to do the move alone and rigged it wrong and dropped it, cracking, bending and throwing the machine out of alignment so I decided that the legs would be a perfect match for my lunch table. Austin pictured here taking the machine apart for scrap and to keep the legs. </div>
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if you look above at that picture of Austin taking the machine apart you see on the legs that I can swing the machine for angle. People often ask why machines like this tilted? The reason was in a factory punching small parts tilt is not a big deal but in a factory that does long pieces like 10+ foot parts where the operators are swinging them around, you either put 15+ feet beween all the machines to allow swing around or you tilt the machines up to the sky and feed the material at a 20+ deg angle so all the long pieces stick up in the air. </div>
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Somedays I just sit around and watch Gabe teach pretty girls how to weld... I use to be 20 years old and did the same thing... </div>
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machined up bungs to allow for the loveseat to swing like the machine, I had the frame done in just a few hours. </div>
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Break time with Greg... ha ha anything that's like 160 proof and has gold flakes in it is a bad deal... you can see it on his face hes hurting. </div>
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I got the maxstar and syncrowave as backup but then I started to think from when I was back in Minnesota... What if I sent the Syncrowave back to my high school as a gift to the metal shop for opening up the door to me???? </div>
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Shes almost ready to leave Cincinnati !!!</div>
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Extended Ram, Stroke, 5 Axis backgauge... 135 tons !!!</div>
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my dream machine !!</div>
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Myself, John Ott from Autodesk and Bob Haas from Haas CNCs at the Titan American built TV show VIP </div>
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Around the clock we build... using the past to build the future. </div>
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The calm before the storm of machine deliveries.</div>
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All the machines that were in the shop had to be pushed up to the wall to make room for the forklifts and machines that were showing up the next day. </div>
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after months of waiting for this custom machine to be built !</div>
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Tom Lipton from OXtool Youtube channel and Mike my Cincinnati sales man chatting</div>
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These 2 guys go 20 years back in the San Francisco bay area metal fabrication world. Its cool that I could bring them together for an exciting time in my metal fab career. </div>
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Oh man... I have dreamed of this machine for years and years and now its crazy I actually have one.</div>
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Exactly like I wanted it. </div>
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Lawson rigging moving her in... </div>
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Tom and I unloading the Haas machines extra goodies in boxes.</div>
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5 simi truck that day showed up... it was amazing to see how fast all of the moving happened.</div>
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This is the Haas ST-30ssy lathe</div>
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We shut down the street... why not so Tom was chilling waiting for lunch. </div>
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Betz got food for all the crew... such a rad shot of everyone just working and enjoying the sun. </div>
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while all the moving was happening we had no more room for the 6th simi to show up which was an autoloader to pick up the scout... </div>
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In one day... my life changed so much...</div>
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From things I loved going to new things I have longed to love showing up...</div>
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its crazy how things work sometimes....</div>
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In this photo there is so much about my life... people that are close to me, helped me, and friends that have passed... its one of those photos that's you will look at your whole life and see the beauty that no one else sees. </div>
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Only 3 years ago on the MLS blog I was doing backflips for this little DiAcro press and how it changed my life and opened doors to concept projects changing the world... Now the madness starts, this thing has a fresh history record... someone needs to write history with it so when I get old and pass it down someone says " this machine built ___________ and its changed the world of ________"</div>
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This is the cornerstone of MLS.... for 10 years this syncrowave has sculpted me in to a aerospace fabricator and its made a lot of people in to amazing people they are today like Gabe and Art that can give me a run for my money as a welder. Figured there is only one thing to do like I said above in the welder picture... Send it to my favorite high school shop teacher Mr. Stuckey of New Ulm, Minnesota Public high school and tell him to let it build the next amazing fabricators.... tools are the key to success and sometimes that's all it takes because your heart and hands do the rest. </div>
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We bought a mag drill and now hes getting lazy on me...</div>
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I feel asleep at the Exploratorium Children's museum while working on a concept project.</div>
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My work was done and my boss was stoked, then I vanished and they came to look for me... hours later my boss sent me this on my drive home.... this is a rare photo of me sleeping, I rarely do it. </div>
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A USA fabricator.... faith is in his skills and tools, oh and baby Jesus. </div>
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With my exhibit done for the museum I could focus on Autodesk University projects and stuff for myself so I figured why not just combine them so I decieded to make that crazy crank set for the high speed bicycle.</div>
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whatttttt !! those tool paths !</div>
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BAMMMM !!! </div>
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Inspired by a photo of a dove flying and not doing something anyone has done yet I came up with this madness. </div>
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The next project was to build a custom bike 7 days before leaving for Vegas</div>
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I started with a Trek to take all the parts and use that stuff. </div>
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Wheels with those sweet Shimano Roller Brakes and belt drive. </div>
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Using Autodesk Fusion 360 I designed the fork crown to be machined.</div>
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We have no air and high amp 220 so we decided to just run all the parts on my Bridgeport Boss 10 CNC. Gabe became the coolent guy and was scared of hot chips. </div>
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I needed to design some other parts to make at the show on the 5th Axis Haas cnc machine so diving back in my history books I remembered the old Kelly bars.<br />
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Adjustable bars with about 3 different positions for riding by loosening up the front bolt on the stem and moving the bars. </div>
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Heres some of the drawings of the different placements. </div>
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I got some new boots and was so stoked I needed to show them off while I machined the fork crown. </div>
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Machining the fork crown out of a solid block of 4130 chromoly using Autodesk Fusion for driving the Bridgeport cnc. </div>
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Designing and doing cnc tool paths on Autodesk Fusion 360 - photo by spencer </div>
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Machining away... - photo by spencer. </div>
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so cool, had to look at it over a tire so I threw it on my 1938 Schwinn I ride everyday to get a look at what it will look like with forkblades. </div>
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so cool... its like a steel tongue </div>
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I finished the sprocket concept enough to get it on the bike but then classic the bottom bracket showed up as a empty box with a hole in the corner, aka " losting in shipping " so for the show it looked like it would be zip ties to attach it. </div>
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The frame for the urban assault bike coming along </div>
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I called in Adam Esposito from the Exploratorium to help me kick out the Kelly Bar concept. </div>
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Hes really good at Autodesk Inventor so it was perfect person to call for help in a time crunch. </div>
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Top view showing the 1.125 steer and the adjustable positions </div>
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Side view.. I was so stoked, the parts on the front are stainless steel 17-4 weld ons and the rear main stem body is 7075 aluminum </div>
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The rear hollow chainstay wish bone I sculpted in Autodesk Fusion turned out really cool</div>
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From concept to design and to machining in under 6 hours. </div>
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time to weld in the wishbone and chainstays</div>
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If anyone ever wonders yes MLS is sponsored... Yes we are - by the Liquor store down the street from the shop...</div>
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ha ha, we took Spencer there with us and did a photo shoot in the store, it was epic. With it being the last day of the build on the stuff before we leave for Vegas it was so important to be fueled up so I was getting some Mt. Dew and gummy bears. </div>
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Thanks to Artist in Residence at Pier 9 Autodesk named Paolo, he quickly printed out my Kelly Stem to take to Vegas. The print was done hours before we were suppose to leave for Autodesk University.</div>
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I needed them for my classes I was teaching at about 3d printing to machining to explain the benefits of 3d printing before running a job on the cnc machines. </div>
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Gabe and I built this custom tool box for going out on the road teaching Machining. </div>
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Its got a Kennedy tool box filled with MariTool CNC holders, 5th Axis vise and 2 Orange Vises mounted on it. It also carries all the material for demos and a 42" flat screen that mounts to the back of the cart to show what were doing on the computer. its the swiss army knife of tool boxes. </div>
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Our luck it started raining. </div>
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hammering thru the night in the ratty shop truck, we got to see the sun rising over Vegas..</div>
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Well I did... Gabe was sleeping dreaming of dancing girls....</div>
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Setting up for the show with Gabe, getting all the bikes out and setting up the Haas with tools.</div>
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I was flattered to see my face on the Autodesk posters cover the trade show !</div>
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here is my prototype 3d print of the MLS Kelly Stem/bar combo in front of the booth. </div>
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Ken from Haas getting the UMC750 ready to cut... me thinking about what I can eat and the bikes ready for the show, the booth was to look like my workshop with unfinished projects all over... </div>
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As soon as were ready setting up the booth we had to run across the place to make it in time to see Carl talk to over 10,000 people about the future of making and where Autodesk is going in the years to come. pictured behind Carl is a crazy Kuka Robotic arm with a Mig welder and it can " 3d Print " metal structures like bridges and sculptures using tacks as build material, SO RAD ! If you remember last year Carl talked about MLS during this talk in front of 10,000 about the leg that Bill and I designed for the a girl injured in war while serving the US Military. </div>
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Carl was making motorcycle parts at Pier 9 on the Haas, we just got back from lunch so that's why he doesn't have glasses on. Pretty cool to see the CEO working to break his own software products.... this is how America was built kids, the push to always be better ! </div>
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not just staying it because they gave me stuff but they make the best Clamps and Vises...</div>
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The big dog lathe - The Haas ST-30ssy with 3" thru spindle for working huge round bars, it has 24 tool stations inside 12 which are live which means I can, drill, mill, saw or anything you can dream of doing inside just like a mill, this thing is so sweet!</div>
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My new baby - Haas VM-3 mold maker cnc machine... shes got all the bells and ready for madness...</div>
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Its been crazy the last weeks and I will fill you in on all the projects leading up to Autodesk University in the next few days and post up some pictures but while I round that up I figured this is a good chance to post up a Pod Cast I did last week at Vegas.<br />
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Its a good listen if you got some time and want to know about what I do, where I see things going and whats happening right now with making follow the link below.<br />
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I was a little taken back for words when I seen this article... Thanks PikeBike for the write up... <br />
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So rad, I hope it shows kids out there not to get off the bike just yet if you are not going to be a pro athlete, this big world still needs you.... <br />
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I don't even really know what to say and how thankful for the great people in my life that are making sure everything is happening and lending a hand! I have been having the time of my life building for the greater good and enjoying everyday of life to the fullest.<br />
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Welcome to the new home of Monkey Likes Shiny</div>
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I teamed up with Carl Bass the CEO of <a href="http://www.autodesk.com/" target="_blank">Autodesk</a> to build and share one of the most badass concept development shops on the west coast!</div>
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First it took a lot of cleaning.... </div>
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10,000 square feet of craziness in the heart of the Bay area. </div>
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Alexis, Gabe, Betz, Johnathan and I wire wheeling the walls clean to ready for paint!</div>
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The move started and behind the wheel leading the show was none other then 20 year old Gabe. </div>
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Hes been with me 4 years and hes taking over! </div>
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He drives the forklift and I strap up the machines, we work well together moving.</div>
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While all the madness of moving was happening I kept on building and moving. It was a race to finish jobs on machines so they could be loaded. </div>
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I was doing some second operations milling work on an aerospace flight part using the <a href="http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview" target="_blank">Autodesk Fusion 360</a>. I have been able to work with the Autodesk development crew since the start of the machining program and I have been stoked to see my improvement get added all the time.</div>
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Christian even made a swing thru to help finish up concept projects for a software company. </div>
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He helped putting the finishing touches on prototype wiring before they had to be shipped.</div>
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As soon as that order went out we broke this room down and hauled it out. </div>
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Without my crew of friends I don't know where I would be. </div>
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Jesse, Matt, Alexis, Liam, Austin, Gabe, Steve, Carl, Betz, Al, Anthony and the many more... </div>
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My dog Mr. Poe isn't so stoked on the madness....</div>
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As machines started to arrive the pressure started to turn up to make sure the layout I planned was perfect. </div>
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This is a little 1991 Mori Seki SL-0h CNC lathe, the smallest Mori lathe ever made. It can run 24 hours a day and make near perfect parts, I got it for the Gabe and Austin to learn CNC on. </div>
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<a href="http://louisechen.com/" target="_blank">Louise</a> is not only my best friend but an amazing painter that turned a concept we had in to an amazing colorful wall all freehand in 1 day, you will see below why she is so amazing. </div>
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I called her and told her... I want Airplanes and Flower!!!</div>
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MLS02 was born.... </div>
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As soon as some of the machines were put in the new building we did temp power to them and started making parts to keep the customers happy. Gabe running parts for Boosted Skateboards. </div>
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To all the pretty ladies out there... Hes Single and can be booked for dates! Call him!</div>
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17 year old Austin has joined the MLS team a few months ago.</div>
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If he isn't at High School learning, at the science museum, at MythBusters TV show then you will find him at my shop building madness with all of us. Hes got a bright future ahead as a very skilled prototype machinist as long as he cuts that rats nest off his head. </div>
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I flew out to Chicago and Detroit to see some amazing history being made. </div>
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The first 3d Printed drivable car happened before my eyes in this Cincinnati machine behind me. </div>
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So amazing... So much for clay... the future is NOW!!</div>
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You will see more action from Cincinnati at our shop in the next months as our big sheet metal press brake shows up. </div>
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I was so stoked to get to drink beers with the crew from Deckel DMG and Porsche beside the 919 that raced at Le Mans. Such an amazing piece of engineering. </div>
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I was shocked to load up the new <a href="http://fusion360.autodesk.com/about?ts_c=search&ts_s=Search&ts_d=NA&mktvar002=Fusion360Search" target="_blank">Autodesk Fusion 360</a> and to my surprise was the leg that Bill and I designed for Catherin who was injured in war is the load screen putting MLS on the map for madness. Some amazing hydraulic mastermining inside that little ankle... damping, rebound and travel adjustments all with the turn of knobs !!! </div>
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A pallet showed up - Surprise !!!</div>
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<a href="http://www.wiltontools.com/us/en/home/" target="_blank">Wilton Tools</a> - makers of the USA built Bullet Vise and other great tools like C clamps and F clamps for welding, decided I needed some fresh tools to make the madness happen. So stoked to be working with them and the R&D team to make more amazing products in the future.</div>
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This bike has been a project between my brother and I for a while now, every time I start working on it I get the idea to make it crazier and crazier. I got the front steering all machined out of titanium you will see in my older blog post. </div>
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Fresh in from Baileigh tools is a tube roller and bender to make some tubing madness!</div>
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When Red Bull heard that we were working hard... they made sure we were well refreshed with cold drinks. </div>
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Gabe working on parts for the Childrens Hospital and Austin working on parts for the Exploratorium Science center in San Francisco. A good shot of the Boeing 787 on the wall that Louise painted. </div>
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Because they treaded me like gold while I was there I freestyle built them a chair using all the left over steel from building the BMX starting gate pictured below. </div>
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The two place I love in San Francisco with some of the most amazing people and amazing tools and skills. </div>
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Every few weeks I mentor groups of High School kids around to local machine shops to show them where their parts come from and how the journey of simple things can be complex. </div>
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I have been traveling non stop...</div>
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Europe a few times this year...</div>
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The last year has been epic and I am finally starting to feel like the San Francisco bay area is where I belong... <br />
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Between building crazy inventions for Google to the small inventors that cover this area, its the perfect place for me to not worry about my looks, what I drive and all the other bs and focus on my work, inventing, teaching and staying happy.<br />
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I was fortunate enough to be chosen as a stopping point on a road tour traveling across the USA finding the top invators using 3D software to make reality happen. I felt extra cool knowing that they were making a stop at my shop after they made a shop at NASA Ames....<br />
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TJ McCue,his wife and Son have been traveling the USA in a sweet Jayco Rv all custom decaled up with cool logos and stuff and all kinds of crazy tools inside like Faro scanners to document the trip in words and 3d images. <br />
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As some of you have met me and some just notice from reading the blog... I love to talk and especially talk about my passion which is metal working and designing, so what better person to describe my passion for metal working to then an acclaimed tech writer from Forbes Magazine who is in my shop and all ears about what and how I make it happen !</div>
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From working with Autodesk Fusion and Inventor</div>
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I was having fun talking with TJ's 11 year old son about stuff that I build and the coolest part is he is documenting the trip as well and you can check it out here <a href="http://www.refinedigital.com/mini3DRV/2014/05/20/drones-bazookas-berkeley-ca/" target="_blank">Mini 3Drv tour</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03806030099077119102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377512484392232577.post-82184849302057870552014-06-21T06:05:00.000-07:002014-06-21T06:05:57.844-07:00if you think your in control... your going to slow.... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Over the last weeks my life has been shifting in to 5 gear... or maybe I was already in 5th gear and now for some reason I am just noticing it? <br />
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Between bouncing off the walls working on projects for Google X, Oakley, Make magazine, getting ready to go to Italy for Red Bull and one of the main things happening to me - MOVING TO A NEW SHOP IN BERKELEY !!!!<br />
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I will have more info about all this madness when I take a breath of air in less then a month.... I mean as an example of my life lately - its like 4 am right now and I am waiting for the CNC to finish cutting so I can take a quick nap while it runs the next parts, this is becoming more normal the more I do prototyping work, I feel like I haven't slept in years because theres too much stuff to do. <br />
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Peace and quite at 4am... well maybe... the streets of Oakland always have some odd activity going on 24/7, you hear some noises that kinda resemble a animal but it is clearly a human making those noises, I think you can figure out the rest.<br />
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One of the cool projects I forgot about that I did last month because I kicked it out so fast was these trophies for Red Bull Ride N' Style a bicycle race event they were putting on in San Francisco, the call came in to make something quick, cheap and cool looking so I fired up the computer and put my brain in to Sheet metal mode, by the time I finished that call I had a concept modeled up and emailed to Clayton at Red Bull. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03806030099077119102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377512484392232577.post-49660736283498178492014-06-05T01:33:00.000-07:002014-06-05T01:33:26.361-07:00Bringing the Monkeys to Uncle Toms...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If your not following Toms YouTube channel.... Do it now... <br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/oxtoolco/videos" target="_blank">Tom Lipton's Ox Tool YouTube Channel </a><br />
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You will be come a better machinist, fabricator or engineer attending Uncle Tom's YouTube University classes ! <br />
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His tips and trips are gold !<br />
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How do I know Tom Lipton? <br />
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I started working for a company a few years ago that was developed and started by Tom and another guy Bob Switek in the San Francisco bay area.<br />
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The company was really started in the early 1990s after Bob the mechanical engineer teamed up with Tom to develop an R&D machinery company for various industries with most of it being in the vegetable industry. <br />
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Some of the wild machinery was patented as well, like a machine that cut broccoli, really a first of its kind in the broccoli production world, some of these machines still run and are being built today.<br />
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The two teamed up and built a really neat prototype company called California Vegetable Machinery, CVM for short, later the name just became CVM as more of the R&D work went toward Clorox and the tech world, the vegetable part would take a back seat. <br />
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The company is still around today and doing very well, with a very skilled team. Tom happed to be offered a job by the USA Gov. R&D Labs located in Berkeley and decided to leave CMV, that's about when I got hired in 2010 or so, just missed working with Tom by a few months. ( I was at CVM for a bit over 2 years and learned so much, vital to what I do and how I do work today)<br />
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But it was pretty fresh scar that Tom had quit when I started at CVM, so I needed to meet this Tom guy, so I tracked him down and we have been buddies since then. Its cool, not a lot of really precision mined fabricators out there willing to bounce ideas off with the experience. <br />
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Tom makes visits to my shop all the time but every so often its good to pay him a visit and so the Monkeys ( Gabe and Austin ) from my shop and I happed to call him and see if he was up for some tool trading.<br />
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Bending sheet metal is my love.... Welding it together is my love and making shiny parts is my love.... <br />
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People always wonder what I do to make money to stay alive because everyone thinks all I do is build crazy projects for myself all day.... Then I explain I don't really make any money and am poor because I am addicted to what I do and spend all the money on cutters and more material to build more stuff... <br />
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Then they understand and offer to foot the bill for dinner...<br />
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But when it comes down to what gets me that little bits of money to move to the next personal project here is a good example of concept to reality and working with designers and engineers to make it happen. <br />
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I teamed up with Lukas of <a href="http://shibuleru.com/Feature-Furniture" target="_blank">Shibuleru Designs</a> out of San Francisco about a new type of outdoor chair he had designed. He had the design and drawings pretty much fully locked down but it was on to me to do a lot of the little tweaks in the prototype and to do all the parts to allow it to be broken down to fit in a box and lay flat. <br />
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Just a really cool example of putting the cherry on top working with the designer/engineer to make a product just a little bit more rad but not straying from the original design plus it kept me alive and building another month.... <br />
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Lukas finished up all the arm rest design and then I realized he only wanted them on the inside of the frame ( as you can see in the photo they are on both sides of the arm rest) so I had to cut off the one side of the laser cut sheet metal arm rest... no worries, small details...</div>
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It is a total of 5 steel pieces per chair and the fabric, then shipping all flat in a box designed for bicycle frames makes it really easy for everyone.</div>
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When the phone rings most of the time for rush work there is normally a time line to get the work done like 2+ days or so... Like normal it was Anthony from HSMworks on the phone with the request to design and build a quick trophy to give away at the event the next day for the launch party of Autodesk Inventor HSM 3D ( the intergrated CAD/CAM for designing and then machining parts in the same program).... I just laughed and said " you got to be serious Anthony, you can't call me the day before, your crazy!" <br />
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I really owe HSMworks, Autodesk and NextGen and all the kids tied in a bunch of favors, really when I look back, meeting this crew has truly changed the shape of my business, skills and built a good amount of my reputation in the concept world because of the ability to kick out crazy 3D machined masterpieces in hours not days or weeks, I can't even imagine what I would be doing, who I would know, and where I would be had I not run in to Anthony while filming a TV show in LA, oh yea, plus I stilled owed Anthony like 50 bucks from Autodesk University in Las Vegas when I ran out of money and needed to eat, so I kinda owed him some favors.... <br />
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Because I had no time to make anything special or time to send anything to anodizing and with the event less then 8 hours away, I searched my shop for anything that was black anodized. The only thing I found was... A test piece for Red Bull Rampage trophies, another HSMworks project a few months back around August. </div>
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Before I cut out the circle on the backside I engraved the Autodesk logo, I knew that I could keep moving all over the part until I got the logo just right. Once I got the logo just right, I cut it out roughly on the K&T horz. mill and then turned it perfectly round on the lathe.</div>
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I put the logo in with a .001 press fit and did some locking nicks with a small chisel to really lock it in without any visible hardware or glue. I also put on the little feet that I had laying around from an only Exploratorium project. </div>
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I needed some blue Acrylic, then I looked up on the wall and seen a left over piece from the Americas Cup Red Bull's Youth Cup trophy I had used HSMworks on as well about 8 months ago. </div>
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This photo is at about 10:30am... Completely smoked... but it was done..</div>
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3 people that had held the fastest time at Autodesk University in Vegas for doing Cam Mania, a timed contest to see who could cnc program on HSM the fastest. All 3 of these guys happened not to be machinist or even have any background in machining, they all were Autodesk users in someway but not really on the manufacturing side of things. Think that made the story way better!</div>
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About a month ago I was selected to be a sponsored monkey for Instructables, the online " How To - Show and Tell " website where people can add their own How Tos on to a large data base of crazy projects for others to enjoy and build from. <br />
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<br />If you havn't went to the website, I encourage you to take a look ...<br />
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The program I am getting involved with is called the AIR program or Artist in Residence .... Which because I am not a Artist, I have changed the name to MIR, way more space age sounding and stands for Machinist in Residence. <br />
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So either way I am taking my MIR timeslot in the amazing shop to write some really cool How Tos and also just classic Tips and Trick for the shop. <br />
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Here is one of my Instructables I have make so far, take a look around the site and see all the other cool things people are building. Just do a random search for something and see what turns up, some really good food stuff on there and always really neat contests going on.<br />
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<a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Bending-Thin-Wall-Tubing-for-bicycles-and-furnitur/" target="_blank">How to bend thin tubing</a> - this is one of my first Instructables that really has taken off, I really watched the search hits on the MLS blog and seen what people were always coming to my blog to check out so I figured I would write an Instructable on it and it happened to make the home page as a featured article.<br />
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A few months ago I teamed up with Bill working on that custom prosthetic leg and Autodesk was pretty stoked about us using new software they have out so they did a write up on the project. Check it out.<br />
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This talks about the new Autodesk Fusion I am using - pretty rad.... Plus if your not making money using it and want it for personal projects... IT FREE !!!!<br />
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This project has been nickeling and diming me for years on my time but now I figured I should just hammer down and build it because I have the tools to do it...<br />
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When I started this concept a few years ago with my brother, I knew I could finish it quickly and it would turn out like the Gravity bike and everyone would get stoked but the more I ran with the concept and split off with my brother the more I realized I was becoming a machinist for stuff but I was still missing the CNC part to really make my parts stand out... <br />
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I can machine anything by hand to a point but it often requires special attention on things like finish work because its not a perfect smooth finish but cnc offers you a showcase of the machining effort you have put in to it, its why people love aircraft parts and crazy cnc bicycle and motorcycle parts. Theres something about leaving the raw machine marks all over it and not polishing it to a glass like finish that sometime once anodized looks like plastic... <br />
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The more I left it sit on the frame table the more it would bug me looking at it but my customers come first and its not to say that I am short on work, what you see on my blog is about 20% of the projects I can show without getting sued or thrown in jail, so it took the back burner... maybe not even the back burner, maybe almost refrigerator with a cover over it...<br />
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The day came where after some sweet wheelin and dealin I scored the CNC Bridgeport Boss 10 and did the retro fit to a brand new drive and PLC ready to take on the most complex jobs, then came the teaming up with Autodesk's new company called HSMworks which links to Solidworks and Inventor for CAM ( see the old blog posts for more details) and with those 2 things the door finally opened on making crazy parts a reality... No paying for machining that I can't afford... I would do it myself and let it run all night on crazy parts. <br />
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This is the project my brother and I came up with to build and I have been running with it since it was sketched... Lots still to come but day by day this thing is coming together....</div>
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I wouldn't call them softjaws really because it would still hurt if you got them thrown at you, but in the machining world anything made of Aluminum is called SOFT... ha, whatever.... </div>
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Looks great but it was ringing like crazy so I put this wrist band I got from Autodesk University on it to reduce the chatter, perfect!</div>
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With the mounts for the floating rotor!</div>
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Called up Tom at <a href="http://oxtool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ox Tool</a> to make sure I had everything right, hes rattled off the numbers on the phone by memory....</div>
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Well.... I made it another year older and if you don't know I am 72 years old.... or maybe its 27.... either way I feel old in the bones...<br />
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I was standing around and I said to Gabe, lets build something really really rad that no one seems to think is a good idea or safe, something we can build in a day or two and take to Salton Sea to have fun with for my birthday and with all the friends from LA. <br />
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We thought about if for a few and we came up with a crazy idea to build a new flame thrower but making it powered by people to keep it more of a team builder and involvement... <br />
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The more I stood there thinking the more I realized why not go backwards and build something that's suppose to put out the fire.... Like a fire pumper truck.... to shoot flames... now were talking....<br />
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We decided what would be cooler then making it kinda like a engine and making the people the pistons and have it hand cranked as opposed to hand pumping vertically... </div>
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Using some stuff laying around we made a fixture and started making a hand crank.</div>
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Gabe did a sweet job cutting these holes in line... </div>
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And is now CERTIFIED as a level 1 Machinist</div>
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Ok... Well I didn't take many photos that afternoon because my camera went dead so heres where it went to next... A swiveling gunner seat and the Hawl Pump mounted..</div>
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Hes been waiting all year for photos like these so he can put them on facebook</div>
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He should have been a gunner in the Army...</div>
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That chair was in the trash.... so we welded it to a giant lazy Suzan bearing left over from a bar stool..</div>
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Having a good stop for the swiveling seat I used the axle sticking out. </div>
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Ok so that night I made some stuff on the gunner seat...<br />
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That's some old garage door bearing rollers I cut apart and just welded the bearings on to make the gun have movement in 360 degs. </div>
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That pressure washer gun I found in the recycling at the Exploratorium because it had cracks in it... </div>
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This is a shot of the wood chain guard which was a backup for a exhibit at the Exploratorium called Echo-Tube and the pump was found during the move out of the old museum, Dave Fleming and I found some really good stuff while packing up. </div>
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Close up of the brown and sharp gears that I got from the Koehn Machine shop and the big monster #50 sprocket was from when I did R&D work for Clorox, it got the wrong bore in it... </div>
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Close up of that sweet pain job and pump....</div>
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Sweet 1" aluminum pipe over 1" steel tubing...</div>
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As you will see that's some left overs from Greg Minnaar's Bike Shop racks...</div>
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The seat was mounted on this giant Stainless Steel Gate Valve I found in the recycling at the Exploratorium.</div>
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I cut the back and shaped it so it didn't hang over - custom & FREEEEEE</div>
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Those are engine puller ( cherry picker ) legs at the bottom with wheels, Some one stole my cherry picker from my shop ( classic Oakland style ) but they forgot the legs.. so that week we decided it wasn't going to return so we welded the leg on the bottom, That engine puller was free so I can't complain... Making those Legs FREE too</div>
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I can't say it was the best idea....</div>
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The healing process in California is styling... My titanium hand made pipe got used for a few days...</div>
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Well... I am resting these days but it was a bummer we didn't get to go to the desert and test.... Maybe soon...</div>
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This video shows us running the pump at full speed, its bypassing pressure and is not easy to pump...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03806030099077119102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377512484392232577.post-81867574013524424292014-02-12T07:30:00.000-08:002014-02-12T07:30:03.005-08:00the little leagues...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well before I had customers like Google, Red Bull, Boeing .... <br />
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I had customers like Larry the BMXican, Sonkway and all the other BMX punk kids in my hometown of New Ulm,MN.... <br />
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I am guessing I was about 11 or 12 years old and I was getting in to metal working thanks to my Dad, Brother and my school/city by making it easy to go for it...<br />
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My town is a very special place..or maybe it is just to me but when I look back at it now I see a lot of my roots strong in what I do now based on that foundation that was built by what was around me.<br />
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The town I am from in Minnesota is a little one of about 15,000 called New Ulm, its very very strong in its German heritage and it shows it in work ethic as well. The name New Ulm comes from the Germans that landed in the Minnesota river valley in the late 1800s and when deciding on the name they said... This is just like ULM, Germany both in weather and land... Just to give you an idea in Germany what Ulm is known for - its a little city not far from the big city of Stuttgart which is known for Porsche and Mercedes Benz just to name a few... the metal working runs strong in the heritage.<br />
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My school as well had great teachers that were super focused to show us about the worlds of crafts and trades, one I will always remember was the tool and die workers that fill New Ulm because of a mega 3M plant there best know for these little bad boys...<br />
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The famous 3M wire connectors ...</div>
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All of us as a full school classes would snake thru the 3M factories every so often stopping to say hi to parents of fellow classmates working in the factory, but we got to see some really cool stuff that got me hooked on making stuff... It was truly an incubator for my making addiction. </div>
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At age 12 this was the coolest thing seeing a 300 ton Arburg press clamp down and fill...</div>
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This isn't the 3M shop in the photo above but it gives you an idea about what we seen as kids and how cool the feed tubes with all the colors were!</div>
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With all this curiosity in making stuff it was a blessing to have some tools in the shop. </div>
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Far from what I use today my dad taught me on the old Miller Thunderbolt, I would watch him then he would yell at me to quick go crank up the top for more amp, if you have used one of these you know what I am talking about, its kinda cool to crank it up. Then I would watch him burn a giant quarter sized hole in part and then he would yell at me to quick go turn it down so I would run and uncrank it to about half what I turned it before. </div>
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It was a slow process.... but I learned a ton...</div>
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Pretty ghetto but it worked and worked well and I made like 30 them with my dad and they sold plus you could use your existing headset cap.</div>
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I would have them all cut and ready and when my dad would come home for lunch during the summer he would help me weld them all up with the thunderbolt and then I would paint them with crappy callers like off green and browns... Colors you didn't want on your bike...</div>
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The company of the future... It said it in our tag line...</div>
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Later down the road we would see a full integration in to the MLS family for Weasel Fab, but that would take years of struggling for Weasel fab before the buyout, mostly because I was still in high school and I had to worry about hanging out with girls, plus I was the only person of both companies so who would I rather hire then myself... Now I am confusing everyone... </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03806030099077119102noreply@blogger.com1New Ulm, MN 56073, USA44.3144394 -94.45930179999999244.2235519 -94.62066329999999 44.4053269 -94.2979403tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377512484392232577.post-86131838778593811962014-02-04T08:00:00.000-08:002014-02-04T08:00:04.110-08:00Oakley's Madness <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Before I went to South Africa I made a post about teaching Gabe to build stuff and doing work with tubing...<br />
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One of the projects was that dirt bike stand I designed and Gabe and I built for Oakley....<br />
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Well they were stoked and the computer fit inside it and people love it...<br />
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It may not get as many chicks as riding a real dirt bike but its still super cool<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03806030099077119102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377512484392232577.post-56554767796746799952014-02-03T07:10:00.000-08:002014-02-03T07:10:00.057-08:00Expectantly planning for the unknown <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I look at things sometimes and wonder why I love to over complicate things...?<br />
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I needed a vacation because I have been hammering non stop on projects this would be my first vacation since the week before at Autodesk University ! ha really its all work but I love my work....<br />
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For my break over Christmas and New Years I decided to help a friend on his newest project.. My buddy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Minnaar" target="_blank">Greg Minnaar</a> ( known as the fastest dude on a downhill Mountain bike with a stack of world champs to prove it) has 2 bikes shops now in his home town of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.<br />
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Christmas was cool in South Africa, just like the good old USA they eat a ton of food and wait for the fat dude to slide down the smoke stack and dump presents under some sort of tree.... I didn't feel out of place at the Minnaar family party as well, between the crazy aunt telling stories and everyone drinking beers it wasn't far off from my family.<br />
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New Years was really cool and we traveled up the coast towards the north eastern part of South Africa on the boarder of Swaziland, where we stayed for a week on a Rhino Reserve and game park called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hluhluwe%E2%80%93iMfolozi_Park" target="_blank">Hluhluwe</a>. The place blows your mind and seeing how hard it is to protect the animals from poachers and just the day to day life is pretty crazy.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03806030099077119102noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377512484392232577.post-25291993510526598012014-01-09T07:03:00.000-08:002014-01-09T07:03:00.311-08:002014 its here....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03806030099077119102noreply@blogger.com0Pietermaritzburg, South Africa-29.6006068 30.379411800000071-29.8214428 30.056688300000072 -29.379770800000003 30.702135300000069tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377512484392232577.post-32526088999071409342013-12-17T08:47:00.000-08:002013-12-17T08:47:00.622-08:00Autodesk University - MLS style.... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Over the last year I have been getting more and more involved with advance machining, the more I get involved the more I fall in love with it... A true brain twister, one of the big companies out there noticed my love and they took me under the wing, they are the next generation of CAM ( aka - Computer Aided Manufacturing or Machining)... The company is called HSMworks, which is now owned by Autodesk. ( HSM in the machining world mean = High Speed Machining )<br />
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CAM is the step that turns just a 3D drawing in to a crazy amount of numeric lines for a machine to understand where to move to make cuts and do operations, its also tells the machine what cutter tools to use and how to use them...<br />
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Without CAM we have to do it in our head and type it by hand, which by todays level of madness being drawn in 3D, its too complicated and time consuming to try to write out by hand but could be done, if you don't mind your life sucking for a lot of hours.<br />
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You have the part drawn in CAD - All 4 of these silver parts</div>
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The yellow lines mean thats where the tool is going go up and down to clear the part and the green shows that its not cutting anything but air because there is no material there so it can go a bit faster to save time. </div>
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I would say it was like, getting a amazing cake ( cad ) and getting a cup of frosting ( cam ) and some tools to put them together but they came separate for years... it took a lot of time and people made messes all the time but it just was the way it was done...<br />
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Now with all these announcements the cake comes with the frosting already applied and no ones complaining plus extra things on top.... The only people complaining are making plain cakes and plain frosting still... No more messes, spilled frosting or wasted time!!!<br />
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Same cake... just way easier !</div>
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1. Conventional - doing it the old way - by hand<br />
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2. Writing NC codes by hand and simple CAM systems to write basic CNC programs<br />
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3. The new Integrated CAD/CAM systems over the last year to design crazy complex projects.<br />
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I hope I look back at this post in a few years and laugh at how excited I am about this and how it took so long to get to this point.<br />
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So whats this post about?<br />
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Well its about me Partying of coarse.... What else do I really blog about !!!!<br />
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Well first things first.... The day I dragged that Bridgeport CNC back to the shop and got it all set up I knew I wanted to push it making stuff for me...<br />
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Every Red Bull trophy project I have done in the last year I have done mostly on the Bridgeport CNC...<br />
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I wish I had a Haas and maybe Mr. Haas will read this and feel like that lonely machine in the back of the Haas Oxnard factory needs a better home and MLS is the perfect place to send it too... but for some reason I feel like the Bridgeport is going to be the main machine in my shop for the next years but you never know...<br />
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Ok Ok ..... The last month around Halloween I was asked by some of the crew to team up and work on a cool project involving a prosthesis leg project for a girl that was hurt in live fire serving in the USA armed forces. This was a really neat project to give back to some of the people that make the USA such an amazing place so I had to do it... My dad is like 30 years military so its only more of an incentive to do it to make him proud.<br />
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The team at AMPd Gear lead by Bill near Santa Barbara, CA brought me in to help hammer on this project and Anthony from HSMworks made sure all the people were on board to make it happen. Heres a little video they did a year ago for HP computers showcasing both Bill and HSM<br />
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We decided that we would use Autodesk's new Fusion 360 program via the Cloud which is amazing for doing both CAM and CAD... We designed a really amazing leg for Catherine in a short time frame and it was very cool looking. <br />
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I did a lot of the design with Bill over web chatting services and bouncing files back and forth, we came up with some really fun designs but we were under the pressure to get it done quickly so we locked down on some designs that Bill and I had talked about using hydraulic dampening thats tune-able<br />
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Anthony decided the best place to unveil this pilot project for both the Autodesk 360 software and the prosthesis leg project was at Autodesk University hosted in Las Vegas.<br />
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Check out this video with Carl Bass CEO of Autodesk talking about the new products and he talks about the leg project as well as Monkey Likes Shiny !<br />
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Carl is a buddy of mine and one of the most rad builder dudes, truly a very rare dude that runs a 2+ billion dollar company pushing his own product to the limits on his free time and when he catches a problem... He fixes it himself.... This is what a CEO should be like.... Take notes CEOs<br />
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Limo ride from the airport - Fuck yeah </div>
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Me the morning after about 5 gallons of free drinks.... No comment....</div>
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Thanks to Bill for this memory.... trust me I didn't forget....</div>
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MLS original that no one can get unless you run a 2+ billion dollar company and make it happen!</div>
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So we took it to the race track - Fuck it ..... I may have to buy a Haas with Cash due to my aggressive driving around the Haas big wigs but I can say I did win some races but did cause some ( non Intentional ) accidents with people I shouldn't pick on if I want to get a machine....</div>
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These are just some of the crew that makes amazing products, its so amazing to have these guys working on this big project of CAM integration, because they love machining and making as much as they like the computer side of things! The knowledge these guys have is so amazing, truly a great team Carl has at Autodesk and I only see really good stuff coming in the next years on the CAM side of the company. </div>
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Thats Jon ( orange cone on his head ) a reader of MLS blog and wind turbine mastermind from out by Boston, Mass. </div>
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If you had about 30 beers and 5 pounds of fish you would be this happy when you meet a pretty girl.... Thanks Autodesk for the free beer.... The girl ran away long before the last beer was drank</div>
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Addressing some issues I see from a young maker view point.... I don't give my age away a lot but I felt pretty special to be 26 and be up there with some of the big names in the machining world and having them listen to a different point of view that they don't normally hear.</div>
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If you have solidworks or autodesk products you can download a 2.5D version of HSM which doesn't do the super wild 3D tool paths but is enough to do almost every thing most of the time.<br />
Its a good way to try it out as well and find out how easy it really is...<br />
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Giving me Cad and Cam has opened so many door for madness and kept me up even later making stuff then before.. </div>
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If you have followed the blog for a while you have got to see Gabe learn all kinds of stuff over the 2 years he has been with me, pretty rad to think this kid that wondered in to the shop 2 years ago was some punk with no drivers license or GED...<br />
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Amazing what a little swift boot in the ass can do for a kid and how just trusting and believing can make someone push themselves to get all the things needed to keep them wheels amoving... Now hes becoming a good fabricator with a GED and a drivers license and going to school to become a machinist so then I can retire and do nothing but write blog post so I can quit getting emails from people about how little I blog because what they don't know is that I am doing secret projects for companies that would strangle me to death if they found out I was talking about their project...<br />
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Ok back to Gabe ha ha because this post is about him and his skills so he can look back and use the blog like myself, to see how silly he was and how much he has grown over the years.<br />
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One of the biggest challenges when becoming a prototype fabricator is just understanding things in 3D and what it take to make something work.... Its not always you get to work on flat things that just land perfect 90 degs to each other and a tape measure just hooks too perfectly... I wish, and I am guessing he and every other fabricator out there do to.<br />
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Training is one of the biggest things that makes anyone the best ( no news to you, I am hoping), training in the metal working industry basically sounds like a fancy word for WORK but really when it comes down to it, its important in 2 ways the way I look at it....<br />
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This also helps a lot with quoting which is one of the biggest problems with fabrication and where people fail, if you have built it then you sure as hell know that it takes you X amount of time to do it... Plus tacking on a few extra because you know your buddy is going to swing thru and bug you and that will slow you down plus other factors but for the most part you are very close in the ball park.<br />
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2. Just being good at what you do gets Chicks ! I don't think I need to go in to details about that....<br />
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Over the last 2 years I have had Gabe making frames out of steel tubing, doing sheet metal, welding, machining and just being an all around fabricator/machinist and builder. I don't know if he will stay around forever but thats not really the reason I teach, I teach so I can learn and be a better teacher of my craft. <br />
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The project is to build a crazy dirt bike stand for a company ( no name given yet ) that will be for Virtual Reality Dirt Bike Racing and the real bike will be bolted to the stand with a computer inside the stand to run the VR equipment.</div>
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Hes landed a really rad new job as a fab kid at a famous Hot Rod shop in the Bay Area.... Not going to blow it up yet and talk about it until he at least has a few months in and feeling good... So far things are looking really good !</div>
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As my love for my craft grows everyday, I ask myself whats the next level?<br />
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With my love for welding being my passion and having really locked it down and all its processes I start to look for new doors that haven't been opened in the metal fabrication world.<br />
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Machining is one of my newest sparked passions but one of the things I have been doing the longest, the quest to be one of the best all around prototypers pushes me to know how to be faster and more accurate then the average joe machinist/fabricator.<br />
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Thats what sets me apart from them, my speed, quick thinking, design and precision - all of these come with a lot of training and studying.<br />
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I watch Gabe work in the shop and it really shows me what I have learned the last 10 years of being a fabricator/machinist, when I turned 16 I got my first job running New Britain Screw Machines and CNCs at <a href="http://www.mico.com/" target="_blank">Mico</a> in Mankato, MN.<br />
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These machines really paved the way and Gene and Matt in the Mico shop really were the dudes that seen a dorky kid with big black framed glasses begging to get on those machines. At age 17 I had already scored one of the dream job for most of the shop crew by being able to float from dept. to dept. running everything from parts for UPS trucks to John Deer tractor brake parts to brake calipers for Caterpillar's largest mining rigs.<br />
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The trust these dudes put in me and the machines they let me run now blows my mind, I sure as hell would have been nervous about letting a kid run every machine in that shop, I was practically hated by about 50% of the shop because of my love for making stuff on the machines.<br />
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Anyone that has worked at Mico knows the worst jobs are Pins, every foot pedal on every tractor, bulldozer,mining dump truck, and so on has them. Its Mico's baby they love to make, the pedals are Cast and there is a stainless pin that goes thur them.<br />
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Somehow my love for being in the shop and running stuff always led me to making pins ( think it was because they wanted to see if I would quit).... Well the average was about 300 pins a day and that was pushing it for most of the crew, well I loved running these machines and some how I ran around 550 pins in a day making everyone look bad that was in the system for running pins. My hatred of employees grew to well over 75%, I can't say 100% because management had NO problem with me making an extra 250 pins in a day...<br />
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Either way, I have been dragging these Mico pedals around for 10 years now to remember what made me who I am and my love for just making stuff.<br />
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Plus the parts I made at Mico are used on the most badass things in the world, hell yeah I want to brag about that... I was 16 and having fun...</div>
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Somedays I find myself back in that mindset while making repetitive parts and I think " the best chefs in the world wash dishes, its a humbling experience and brings you back to square one, no one is too good to not have to do it"<br />
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Now when I look at what I am doing and where my brain is at I see myself moving so fast sometimes I can't keep up with my brain. I love it, but when I get that little bit of down time when you would expect to relax and sit around and watch tv, I find myself reading and practicing my skill. Who knows why, but it feels right.<br />
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My espresso machine has become one of those tests of my skills and there is a hidden reason I am building it not money related, mostly a test to myself and to others that have been watching me with doubt about my skills. Its a test to see how far I can push my design, fabrication and just skills to build something like this.<br />
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Its kind of like writing an essay about what you love to do.<br />
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There is other people out there that really push for me to finish it and see its true value in what I am learning on it, people like Tom of <a href="http://oxtool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ox Tools Blog</a> who has pushed for me to keep learning and progressing as an all around metal crafter. The crew at <a href="http://www.autodesk.com/" target="_blank">Autodesk</a> like CEO Carl, Anthony and Al of HSMwork/Autodesk who provided me with the software to be at that next level of prototyping, design and fabrication.<br />
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These people will be the first people to get a cup of coffee from the machine ( I didn't say good coffee, who knows what it will taste like)<br />
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Heres a test of my skills to see what I can kick out, lets call it a quiz.<br />
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Mission - Build a cool bracket to copper weld to the side of the espresso machine<br />
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A big block of 110 copper</div>
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12" x 6" x .5 thick = $140 = not eating for a week</div>
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I started my tool paths with the pockets and the working around the outside.</div>
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Maybe not the quickest but I was worried about gumming up the cutter so I took small bites</div>
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My buddy Rodney at Roland Sands Design made me this MLS badge</div>
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I have wanted to use it for something... This is perfect</div>
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What happened here is I forgot to put the radius in the copper so the badge could sit in the pocket.</div>
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Using the handy Starrett radius gauges I was able to find it was a 7/32 (.220 roughly because of the casting) These little radius gauges are cheap and a really saver sometimes when your reverse engineering a project on the fly and need a perfect match up.</div>
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Without moving the part I adjusted the model for the radius and then did a new tool path on HSMworks </div>
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Took me under 5 minutes to adjust it, repost the G code and load it on the machine.</div>
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Talk about fast, thats why HSMworks is perfect for prototyping stuff.</div>
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It didn't cut anything but the radius in the corners that I adjusted.</div>
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Next was the flip over to side two and doing all the windows and match up.</div>
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That way when I flipped it all I had to do was put a 1/4 pin in the drill chuck and zero it off that point. Not the ideal way to do a high precision part but for what I am doing its totally OK, I know that there will be a need for clean up on the belt sander. </div>
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So one of the great parts of having a CNC Knee mill and doing parts like this is I can slowly walk it around the part and raise and lower the knee leaving little web connections so the part doesn't just drop out, as you can see I left like 5 connections on the part, those I would just band saw out and drop the part from the copper plate. With the price of copper so high, I try to not waste any chunks of this 140 dollar piece of copper. </div>
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I trimmed it out on the band saw and had to get a picture!</div>
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Over all it took me about 4 hours from design to finished cut out part, not bad.</div>
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Rodneys little badge looks great on there. </div>
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Had to do a quick hold up on the boiler to see the fit up.</div>
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I have way more plans for this bracket then just looking cool but right now I can't explain because I have to run out front of my shop and cheer on someone in a high speed car chase as they rip by my shop in Oakland ! </div>
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I love Oakland !</div>
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