Showing posts with label Fuel Cell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fuel Cell. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

A blast from the past to help the future....

I have been sitting on a box of these U-lock tools for a while so I figured what better way to get the ball rolling on the next big project ( Titanium Sheet Metal hydrogen fuel cell race bike ) then selling the last bits of these bad boys to keep the sparks flying and keep the titanium chips curling...

I decided this would be a great time to team up the U-lock tools with some T-shirts to really help fuel the project a bit quicker.

If you don't know much about the Ulock tool its a product from years back created with my buddy Dan Berlant from LA and myself, we were just sitting around drinking beers talking about making stuff and this baby came to be.

This is the tool, mounted on a U-lock
The tool is a 15mm socket that uses the ulock as a lever.

 It wasn't really a money maker but the idea was fun, unique and its still neat to see people around the world enjoying that on a daily basis.

Its kind of like having mini time capsules in my shop, it was a very happy and weird time of my life back in the hood in Central Los Angeles when MLS was just coming to be and the future was so unclear....

The tool stays on your lock at all times and locks up just like normal.
You can see the 15mm Hex on the end

Without the T-shirts the last year MLS wouldn't have been involved in some crazy life changing projects some that can't be told on the blog and some that have or will be told,

 but you can be sure that it couldn't have been done without the press brake and some of the tools that were helped funded by T-shirt sales and people truely believing in my passion and love for my trade with the main goal to spread it to others and build for whats right. 



Shirt size
Ulock style
This is the button for Both a Ulock tool and a Shirt for the kids in the USA...



Shirt size
Ulock style
This is the button if it requires a bit of a trip around the world and needs some extra shipping...

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Just a good old U-lock tool only...
Maybe you have so many MLS shirts but just don't have a Kryptonite Ulock tool.... Then you can just buy a Ulock tool here, shipping is included already.

Kryptonite Ulock tool


Bulldog Ulock tool
Maybe you way to many MLS shirts but just don't have a Bulldog Ulock tool.... Then you can just buy a Ulock tool here, shipping is included already.


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T-SHIRTS only Below

T-shirt with some good old USA shipping

Sizes
T-shirts because everyone loves them and it keeps the lights on and Gabe and I working.

Below is the classic T-shirt with some International shipping to throw it over the pond.

Sizes

Sunday, March 4, 2012

DI ACRO !!!!!!!!

Well....

Between everyone buying a ton of T-shirts and getting a huge robotic concept project the other day,  I had to hand over the cash and add to the fun at MLS....

I have dreamed of having a Di Acro press brake for about 4 years now, and with new crazy jobs coming in, I got a random phone call asking if I was still looking for a press brake.

" there is an aerospace company not far from your shop looking to get out of sheet metal and they have your machine fully tooled and ready, your the right person for the machine, you deserve it, bring some money and we will make it right! "

I showed up a day later to take a tour of the company selling the machine, I needed to look it over and run the machine, it was in near perfect condition for a 1967 machine, my eyes were in disbelief, this was all my money I have been saving so it had to be perfect !!
Nate from All Power Labs came over to help unload

The old CalTrans GMC truck was the perfect truck use


Enjoy the post and Thanks to everyone for helping out who have bought shirts, and to those who are going to be buying T-shirts if you haven't already, theres still a lot of stuff to get for it before the magic starts.. Thanks to Kane Lynch and Matt Ducot for the photos, I was to excited to take photos.

The crazy MLS concept Titanium SheetMetal Fuel Cell Race bike is coming up and this little machine will be making it happen at the MLS skunkworks.



 

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                         I will give you a quick test drive
                                                     
I had to make a quick video of the machine because I was so excited.
I will teach you to run it in posts down the road but for now, I will just show you the 18 tons of Hydra-Mechanical power built in good old Minnesota.

Each T-shirt has a small machine or tool on the arm sleeve indicating where the profits from the T-shirts sales went to, this shirt I am holding was part of making the Di Acro Press Brake happen this last week. 











Size


If your ordering from overseas extra shipping will be required.


Sizes
International Order

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Years !

Hope everyone has a blast for the New Years!

 MLS is throwing the big ball bash tomorrow night and I am getting ready but like normal something shows up to throw me off from my task and get me all fired up about building something.

Bear from All Power Labs in Berkeley, CA decided it would be perfect to push in to my shop the 500 watt PEM Hydrogen Fuel Cell for my next project during my party set up...

And like normal the party planning and set up stopped.... because I had to get my hands dirty and check this thing out.
Bear wants to be a model for Sears so bad! 


Its a really cool set up made in the early 2000s by a company called Avista Labs, I don't know a ton about it yet and I will be doing some research about it but I do have some fuel cell experience and I think this is going to make a cool electric race bike project. I need to decided should it use 36 inch wheels or 29 inch , Coker wheels or Velocity wheels, that is the question ????
12 PEM Cells all packed in to a crazy brain of controllers


Either way - Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all - Its been a good time in 2011 and 2012 is looking very bright already !