1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I have never wrecked a car.


But I’ve bought a few wrecks

 

When you have multiple personalities in small person

 

Y’all cray cray

 

Says the guy with multiple personalities

 

I thought they were a little wild when they came out but the blue gauge dials are neat

 

I don’t mind there truck, prettty nice, idk if this is the 2.7 or 3.5 but I don’t hate it.

 

@Wulf

Because we talk garage stuff, and since you fabricate more often than I do.

I don't know what you use to square things up, at least for tacking shit but I found these wood working (they're aluminum, anodized) squares to be useful.



Specifically because you can clamp them down to shit with the knurled handles.

 

Shit, looks better than stuff I've seen!

 

@Abeyancer

I know you guys try to do most all your stuff in-house, but are there specialty brackets/etc that you guys often find yourselves buying?

Just more of a reason to get that laser or cnc setup we talked about.

 

I like those, squaring stuff up is a pain. Do those have a name?

 

I'm all for a laser or cnc setup, that with a bender capable of giving crisp 90 bends in 3/8 mild steel and I'd be able to make damn near everything in house. But the owner doesn't want us "fabricating" he wants us assembling :/ he wants all the brackets made by someone else so we're just slapping it all together.

I think that's a bad business model personally... and if he doesn't realize all the money he's losing I might just have to start my own competing equipment company, that way all his lost sales when people are buying my shit would teach him a lesson

 

Thanks! I need to make a jig and get a coping saw so I'm not filling an air gap around the pipe radius.. that would help alot in making it look cleaner.

I was just amazed I could get it to glue together with the wrong gas and wire lol

 

At a former job I worked for a company that was dead set on building absolutely everything in house that they could. It seemed like a real mixed bag. Custom stuff was so easy that everything was custom, and so we had a zillion part numbers. Quality control was interesting because instead of just saying “this is wrong, go figure it out better or we aren’t buying”, it became “well the shop made 4000 of these slightly wrong items, how can we use them anyway?”

I dunno, the idea of in house manufacture on a lot of stuff sounds good, but it’s something to approach very carefully

 

Unless you're a machine shop, if that's not already your business model then something when horribly wrong haha

 

https://sacramento.craigslist.org/pts/d/sacramento-selling-whole-car-toyota/7511233197.html

found this in the auto parts section. sounds complicated, but cheap.
thought I'd share in case anyone in the Sac area is looking for a 2nd gen 4runner or a good project to flip.

 

$39 W B D WEIBIDA 90 Degree Clamps For Woodworking, Positioning Squares Right Angle Clamps 2 Pack, 5.5" X 5.5" (140 x 140mm) Aluminum Alloy Corner Clamps Tools For Cabinets, Picture Frame, Drawers

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XH8JX8Q

Though those aren't exactly it, but you'll see all the 'similar' items with it.

 

No one likes 2nd Gen 4R's

 

@0xDEADBEEF

To piggy-back on my own post, they were especially useful when I tacked this thing up.







I do wish I had welded it all up with those squares in place, but I rushed the whole job within a few hours (including grinding).

Still came out OK I think.