First aluminum duramax rod!!

dmaxlover

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Relax sport. Figured you like communicating by talking down to others, so I wanted you to feel at home. ;)

I started making chips the year you were born. I was machining landing gear boxes for DC-10's when you were still in diapers. 2000lb aluminum forgings. I've never hit the green button on a NC/CNC/DNC machine. All the various machines I ran were all manuals, and few if any had DRO's. You read dials, venier scales, and optics.

Ever run a jig bore? We were the guys who saved parts from the scrap bin by moving a hole 0.0005", or held the true position of .0002" on compound angle feature locations. We never got a second chance at anything. You hit the mark, or you lost your job.

Back then, all of us considered guys like you button pushers since you always got extra stock to play with, and you left the hard stuff for us.

I learned exactly the same way you did, on manual machines, just 20 years later. The guy that trained my while I was going through my apprenticeship was an old school toolmaker from Pittsburgh that made nuclear reactor parts. As you can imagine he was very anal, and it sucked sometimes, but in the long run it made me a better machinist, and gave me the foundation for everything machining related I know today.

If you were still in machining, you'd be in the same shoes I am, setup, programming, and running a cnc machine.

Are you saying it takes more skill to make a 2000 lb part, vs a 2 lb part? Because that's sure how you make it sound.
 

WolfLMM

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I dont hold a candle to you guys with manual machines. I can make parts and what not, its just not my cup of tea. But CNC is another story. Good luck with the haas, I hope it treats you better than they did me.:)
 

duratothemax

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I wish I was as smart as you guys. The only lathe ive touched is the delta 12" POS I made wood bowls and plates with in 5th grade wood shop class. CNC? I know it stands for computer numerically controlled, and....? I dunno, I walked by one once.

off topic...pat, whats a "landing gear box"? Im a pilot so I suppose I should know what it is, but im lost..
 

McRat

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I wish I was as smart as you guys. The only lathe ive touched is the delta 12" POS I made wood bowls and plates with in 5th grade wood shop class. CNC? I know it stands for computer numerically controlled, and....? I dunno, I walked by one once.

off topic...pat, whats a "landing gear box"? Im a pilot so I suppose I should know what it is, but im lost..

On heavy aircraft, there is a large forging that supports each of the gear. It's about the size and shape of a large bathtub on a jumbo jet.
 

Accelerator

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Wow the change in direction here makes my head hurt. Is there a topic here?:D

On Topic: Looks like Childs and Albert rods to me! :cool2:
 

Accelerator

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Aluminum d-max Rods
 

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Accelerator

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Nice deflection.

Answer the question.....

Wow, i missed that one,i dont have pics of them in the engine....not much reason to do that. the short block is assembled, i have vairious pics of the rods and pistons together and assembled if you like?
 

Mike L.

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there is two pics there, one has the piston assembled to the rod.

Another direct answer.:baby:
According to my sources at CompD, Chucky is not allowed to get any pictures of the aluminum rod he developed. Can you believe that? The nerve of those guys.:baby: