Made a billet exhaust flange

[90nut]

Holy cow man, that looks as good as a Paul turner part!! Very skilled indeed. You can drive on over to indiana any time to use the Mill, or lathe or any other tools we have at the shop. It usually takes me a few tries to have something absolutley perfect. So great job!!

[Billy Golightly]

I guess I should have taken some pics of the actual work being done. To cut the flat flange area nice & straight, I took the piece from pic #2 and bolted it to a flat board through the center hole. Then I centered the board on the drill press table, and clamped it down. I put a 4" fiber cutoff wheel into the drill press chuck & raised the table to the proper cutting height. I left the table clamp loose enough so I could spin the table around, allowing the cutoff wheel to gradually cut around the circumference of the flange. When the front side was done, I then had to flip the flange over & do the same to the back side, leaving the little lip that mates to the cylinder. It took about 30 minutes to cut each side, but it made beautiful, straight, & square cuts.

Thats pretty smart thinking. Way to go McGyver

[Red Rider]

Holy cow man, that looks as good as a Paul turner part!! Very skilled indeed. You can drive on over to indiana any time to use the Mill, or lathe or any other tools we have at the shop. It usually takes me a few tries to have something absolutley perfect. So great job!!

Thanks, I appreciate the invite. I know exactly what you mean about taking a few tries to get it perfect. If I made another one, I could do it so much better, now that I've perfected a few of the techniques that I used. There was a lot of trial & a few errors made, which I'm still pissed off about. Yeah, I've been called a perfectionist before, as well as a few other choice names.

Billy, they don't call me MacGyver for nothing. No, wait. They don't call me MacGyver.