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What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!

I ended up just slathering the entire area with jb weld. I figured no need to find it if I'm just covering everything lol.

Nah, but its 4x4 and it didn't take that much to so that. So I figured why not just put a layer over it all, and to help smooth it over, so hopefully when I paint it it wont look quite as bad.
 
Blankblank said:
Reason I havent done anything like jbweld, was because I wasn't sure how effective it would be on something containing oil..
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I fixed a leak in an oil pan with jb weld one time. According to the owner of the car it was still holding 3 years later when he sold it...
 
A.McPherson said:
I fixed a leak in an oil pan with jb weld one time. According to the owner of the car it was still holding 3 years later when he sold it...
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That's easy . Many years ago on Romanian roads , I damaged the plastic fuel tank of my 205 GTI. The only thing I had on hand was a Bazooka chewing gum in my mouth.... Some years later I sold the car along with the chewing gum 🤣
 
DanF said:
Chewed , or unchewed?
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Chewed :) When I got home, I checked several times. I have no idea how, but chewing gum became as hard as epoxy, so I left it. I informed the guy who bought that car from me about it and as far i know he never do something about that ...............what I really don't understand is how she got hold on the plastic while the fuel was leaking ?
 
Imagine what that stuff does if you swallow it!!! LOL
 
Yeah. I checked today. After filling it up. Didnt leak at all. So I poured the oil back out again, and I sprayed another coat of paint in it. It looks significantly worse now. Because I just didn't feel like wire wheeling all the original paint of, and it's got some wierd lumps near the base where I kept adding more metal, and eventually put the jb weld over it.

It's fine though. It's going to do the job, and the main reason I want the paint on it is to prevent rust anyway. Now I just need to wait a bit for it to dry, then flip it, so I can remove the burned up primer from the bottom so I can go ahead and paint over that.
 
"The neighbor's child swallowed a pebble, they called an ambulance. When I was little, I ate half a cow flatbread, my grandmother said, it's fine, we don't have to give him dinner."

I'm guessing that's a euphemism for cow pat? They're just fibre, it'll be fine, worst case you need a shot of an antiparasitic med. A pebble could actually block you up.
 
this blade is almost ready for the oven!
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REK Knives said:
That is interesting! How's that swedge gonna work?! I like the swooping plunge too, good job on that
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thanks man! I've been wanting to figure out how to do a plunge like this for a long time and somehow it seemed to work out today. I spilled my coffee this morning and broke my cup, so maybe that had something to do with it 🤔

I wanted to keep this blade full thickness along its length to minimize the chance of warping during the quench. So what I'm planning on doing is continuing the primary bevel through the swedge once it's heat treated, with the top of the bevel being about in line with the tip. The stock thickness should taper a lot where the two bevels meet so even though the grind line won't be too high up the geometry should be fairly acute toward the tip
 
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