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We are in production mode with our English Wheel adjusters. Wray discusses the various options that will soon be available for purchase. We also wanted to announce that our metal shaping classes are back! We understand in the current climate that many still won't be able to attend which is why we provide these videos for you. One of our viewers is from the UK, he doesn't have many tools and has an extremely small workshop. That didn't stop him though. After watching our Bonnet Build videos Praisehim bought our Flexible shape pattern tape and copied the information from a D Type Jaguar. With the knowledge he has gained from the videos he completed nearly all the panels now all he needs to learn is welding. Anything is possible when you put your mind to it!
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hi it's ray from proshape the workshop
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in charlton Massachusetts and we've been
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away for a little while but we're back
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now and hopefully we get some more
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videos made the classes have started
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again and we've been really busy with
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the English wheel project we've sold a
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bunch of the plans we hope to sell a
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whole bunch more and now the next step
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of that is not only building the frame
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the people that bought the plans of
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building the frame which takes some time
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the next step is the yolks and the
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adjuster and all the components you need
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so as you probably know I like high
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quality stuff but you have to balance
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the high quality with the price and I
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went through a lot of juggling to figure
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out how it was the best way to make a
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really high quality components for that
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wheel as you saw the wheel in the
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earlier video I finished it up pretty
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nice and it deserves these very nice
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components so and I'm hoping to sell
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them at different levels maybe just
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drawings and then also unassembled and
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if you finish it yourself type of deal
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and then totally finished well these are
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the production prototypes we've got
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three of them running now and we got a
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bunch of others in the works this is the
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top adjuster I've in them in my history
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of building English wheels I've probably
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had about seven or eight different
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designs for justice this is the first
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one that I've made out of ROM stock and
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I didn't do any shortcuts at all on it
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it's a really high-quality adjuster it's
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very nicely it works very nicely we make
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the the top wheel too you got about an
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inch and a half a travel that's all you
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need the D criteria for a adjuster is to
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limit the any type of play this limits
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the rotational play
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and then we've got a bronze bushing we
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were able to get a bronze bushing we
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have the machine but it's a big large
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diameter one and we cut it and it's
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about an inch and a quarter long or so
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that carries all the load right there
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and it's a it's a really elegant
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solution to a top adjuster or any
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adjuster this is the interface here for
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the upper yoke
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you have a nice live surface that the
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yoke will will seed on and it takes a
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half 20 the cap screw it allows the yoke
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to turn 360 degrees so if you want to
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turn the yoke to 90 degrees or 45
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degrees which you don't do every day but
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it comes in really handy when you have
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to so that's a really nice feature the
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thing is pretty much maintenance-free a
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little bit of dog the oil here and there
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and the thing the last 20 years it's got
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a really nice wheel we make that up here
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and it mounts with right on to the
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English wheel frame and there's these
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holes are a little bit bigger so you can
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you can adjust it around and dial it all
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in to get all your geometry correct
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you can also shim it if you made a
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mistake in the welding you have the
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ability to shim it and there's just a
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lot of nice features of this of this now
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this is how you we get it out of the
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lathe we turn these down and get a nice
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finish on them but on the finished one I
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was going to put wrinkle paint I was
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thinking of putting black wrinkle paint
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but now I'm thinking I'm gonna just put
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silver hammered finish on it
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you could leave it bare but you'd have
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to wax it otherwise there to rust up on
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you so when that's all done there will
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be some lock nuts on here to lock these
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adjusters this is an adjustment for the
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bushing the bushing is infinitely
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adjustable so you should get literally
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lifetimes where at the use out of this
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just as the bushing we're
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it's not a high where item anyways but
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if it wore it down and got a little
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loose you just tighten these here and it
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tightens the bushing so you know this
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will last more than one lifetime so it's
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a nice nice adjuster and now another
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potential on it is it can be mounted on
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the bottom and you just we just provide
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a longer screw thread here and then
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it'll become a bottom adjuster wheel if
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different people prefer the bottom
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adjuster wheel now I want to talk a
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minute about these yolks here this is
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the upper yoke and I've been using a
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water jet cutter for about five or six
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years now in Connecticut and they have
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state of the art don't like I think
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three or four axis cutting heads on that
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water jet cutter it's a major table it's
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a very very expensive water jet cutter
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all water jet cutters are not created
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equal this one you get you know super
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precise 90-degree cuts on it and they
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they give you a spec of plus of minus
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ten thousandths of an inch in my
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practice with them it's more like plus
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or minus one thousandths of an inch
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now I've cut all these pots previously I
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have a plasma cam CNC plasma cutter
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which is a bare-bones machine but it's
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actually a really really nice machine
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and I can cut these on this but I won't
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get anywhere near the the accuracy that
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I can get with the water jet and so it's
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a poison pill thing do you spend all
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your time cleaning it up or do you step
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up and buy a really nice water jet part
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and it's very little cleanup I just ran
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the grinder on these for two seconds
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there might have been a little nub or
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something on it and that cleans them all
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up they're all nice and square I
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provided all the drawings this is the
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top yoke there's the mount hole right
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here and unfortunately that was supposed
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to get six of these because I got three
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of these in the works right now
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the tapa just is and the only sent me
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one so they owe me five more and these
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are this is where your axle goes through
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for the top adjuster top yoke rather and
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it's a one inch axle I haven't cut that
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hole and I have a one-inch reamer and
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I'll just run it through here and this
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is this is about almost perfect now
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so the Rema will just make it absolutely
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perfect and I make these so it also have
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these holes cut and these are the
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correct size for tapping them these will
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get tapped out to a 3/8 I believe 18
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thread or so the coarse thread and that
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allows these to be adjustable up and
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down and then the adjustment on them is
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on the bottom that hole there gets
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threaded with a 5/16 18 and a set screw
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goes in there and these all get welded
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together and this becomes like a machine
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surface so you don't even have to do any
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machining it's all off set boy right out
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of the water judge just a little bit of
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cleanup with the file so these will have
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to be welded together and tapped and of
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course I'm missing the other piece here
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and that will make a really fine
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full-featured upper wheel yoke well now
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this is the lower wheel yoke and this
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could be used also if you wanted to use
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this wheel with larger lower anvils you
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could use this yoke for both the upper
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and lower and all of these components
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I'm going to package them up into a big
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package but also you'll be able to buy
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any of these components separately so if
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you have another wheel that has a yoke
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that's not up to snuff or you want a
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better adjuster you can buy any one of
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these pieces individually so here's the
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the bottom yoke and it's the same deal
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it has this nice machine surface where
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this piece here is
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the active piece that's adjustable and
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that allows you to set the attitude of
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the anvil so you can tilt the anvil or
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make sure that your hand will of contact
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area is running dead center on your top
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wheel so these are really high quality
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pieces I might just sell them just like
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that as a Zapata case they're easily
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mailable and printed and priority mail
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so the shipping won't be that bad you
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can tap them out you can weld them and
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you can you got to make sure they're all
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square when you weld them up and
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everything and you'll end up with a
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really nice piece and then you can paint
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them the color you want and stuff same
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thing with that yolk so keep watching
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the website and you'll see all the
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different options we're still waiting
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for a bunch of stuff for my suppliers
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and we're also going to do a inexpensive
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lower adjuster the lower adjuster
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generally can be made for less money so
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people are very price conscious will
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offer that that will also offer the 360
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turn potential on both upper and lower
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yokes and they'll be bolt on and and
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that that will will you know give you a
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real wide spectrum as far as the pricing
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structure goes so I just wanted to show
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the detail of what that waterjet does is
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that lower yoke for the three-inch
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anvils and you can see it cuts out these
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beautiful square holes like that now
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this is going to be welded here and then
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this gets attached to it and then your
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champ for this edge here and you weld
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these right together it makes a really
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solid solid assembly I've been making my
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yokes like this for probably about 15
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years or so now but previously I cut
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them mostly in my plasma cam cutter the
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CNC plasma cutter but nothing beats this
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water jet
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and you know it has to be a really
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high-quality machine - and to get these
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incredible results so the classes are
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now back on again if anybody's
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interested in taking classes and we've
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got some really cool t-shirts check them
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out right on each one about videos
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teespring t-shirts this is a really nice
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one I love this one and we'll be
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following up with another assembly video
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on the frame we've got the second one in
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play right now but we're going to get a
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third one going and I might do that
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assembly video and we might show some of
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the assembly process and the machining
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process and makes this to make these
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pieces I understand that not everybody
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can come to my classes and with this
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Kovan 19 situation we're all in it could
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be a year and a half before Europeans
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can come back and the australians that
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were coming and i mean i have people
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from all over the world coming plus the
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united states and so there are a lot of
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people watching my videos and one of
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them was a an IT guy from UK
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his name is praise and his first name
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and he's got he had zero experience and
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somehow he got enthralled with a d-type
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jaguar i see on his website on his
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Facebook page he took a ride in one and
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he had an opportunity to buy a
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fiberglass D type Jaguar body which he
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wanted to trance translate it into an
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aluminum Jaguar d-type body so he's now
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in a hiatus on his job because of the
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Kovan 19 he's got some time he's got a
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little tiny workshop and he's been
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watching my videos and this just shows
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you the power of video and he ordered
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some flexible shaped patent tape from me
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and he's got a very small English wheel
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that he bought every thoughts tools are
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very inexpensive and he's building a D
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type Jaguar complete aluminium
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and he's got a lot of it done he's
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working on it every single day
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now the panels are not up to you know
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world class coach building standards but
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they're pretty damn good and he's not
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welded him yet he's got to still learn
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his welding skill sets and he has to do
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a bunch of planishing on him but I was
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gonna have MOC put those pitches in and
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you'll see that my video is not only
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inspire but actually have actual results
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so if if you're getting some kind of
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result like that from watching my videos
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we'd love to hear from you just private
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message me or email me two pitches of
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what you're doing and that'll help
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inspire everybody else so keep watching
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and keep giving us the support we could
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certainly use a lot of support and this
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o'clock comment current climate that
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we're in not everybody can still come to
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the class the the flights are not up to
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snuff yet so any any help that you can
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give us in purchasing tools or our plans
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greatly appreciated and it helps expand
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into new areas I want to do other tools
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I want to finish up a lot of the
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projects that we're working on but it
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takes time and money to do all that
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stuff so thank you very much and hope to
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see you soon
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