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Ya know what we REALLY need? The slotted washers used to pull the upper and lower front end bushings. I could supply dimensions in the spring when I harvest some beams but they would need to be made from hardened steel so they wouldn't bend and cutting the slotted hole in them would be the fun part. Keith Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo" 65 Squareback "Eggcrate" 87 golf "Winterat" 93 RX7 "Redstur" -----Original Message----- From: Russ Wolfe [mailto:russw@classicvw.org] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:58 PM To: Type3 Subject: Re: [T3] My (redesigned) pulley lock. On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:27, Toby Erkson wrote: > I originally found a local place that specialized in aluminum but after a year > of them constantly putting of the design work I decided to work this project on > my own. The price list that comes w/the software showed aluminum to be almost 5 > times more expensive than steel. Also, using wire EDM was necessary for cutting > the tight and accurate curves for the teeth. I designed it to be > professional-grade and tough -- quality. I hate cheap tools!!!!!!!!!!!! > > I'm a computer programmer, not a mechanical engineer nor machinist (I just play > one in my garage ;-) I wish I had the education! I also don't have easy access > to a shop so I have to get by with what I can find and emachineshop is the only > place willing to do one-offs, as well as batch jobs, for joe-shmoes like me. > Plus the free CAD software used to allow one to design their own stuff is very > cool for me! Yes, there are definitely much better applications out there but > for what this does, I'm not complaining! Like computer programming, I'm sure > there is more than one way to make this tool. > Well, the advantages of down sizing in a big corperation. Guess what was unloaded into our tool room from a plant that closed ?? A CNC mill, a CNC lathe, and an EDM. And the tool room supervisor is familiar with VW's and might be willing to help on "little" projects. They are not in place and hooked up yet, but we are getting there. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~