NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Yeah I figured as much, I was just seeing if would be worth it to do on my own.

 

Good luck. If you're that conscientious about the cost of buying it, making it yourself is your cheapest route.
Plot it out, mark, drill it and tap it using a drill press. Tedious, time consuming task.

Depends how determined you are in "wanting" the end result.
Very time consuming to layout and create by CAD, and milling machine.
You don't "need" a machinist, you need to be creative.

What's it for, anyway?

 

I guess technically I "need" qualified information to make a decision and it sounds like I have it. I was just feeling out the reason behind a seemingly high cost. Its for mounting a laptop to a stand or tripod for tethered product photography. They sell a bunch of doodads that screw into the holes in the plate so you can mount external hard drives and all kinds of other stuff.

 

This website is freaking me out today

 

i can pretty much guarantee you that it’s more efficient to buy something that’s available for sale. 99/100 times you’ll spend more of your money and/or time to make duplicate it. If it’s not custom one-off, just buy it

 

A large percentile of people are below p50 intelligence then? Lol. Fair point though averages are super skewed. Medians and percentile are generally best in statistics.

 

It’s pretty awesome

 

Does anyone know where to source these locally in the Seattle area? 1" body with 3/8" pin.

 

Don't know of anywhere local but thanks for reminding me I need to go order a new one from McMaster-Carr since I broke another one on my swing out last fall.

 

I need one like now, lol. I'm trying to finish up a bumper build this weekend.

 

I think I have the threaded weld on piece floating around at home from the replacement I bought the first time I snapped off the pin.

I can take a look when I get home if you want it.

 

It's all good. I have one on hand that I can use to locate all of the locking brackets.

 

So the only thing I don’t do myself on my truck is my alignment. So I brought my truck into best tire center in marysville and I guess they didn’t think it was important to tighten my lugs. Lost my tire going about 25

 

they needed to take the tire off for just an alignment?

 

Apparently it comes with a free tire rotation

 

Yikes dude anything break on the truck?

 

I need a new fender and new studs

 

uhhh dude you should make them buy you new rotors.

 

yea, and make them buy OEM Toyota. fender+paint job, studs, rotor, and supercharger

 

Might need a few lug nuts too