Recent content by Moparmat2000
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Custom made shop tools
Not a shop tool, but wife wanted a unique wine rack. Bottles purposely angled down to keep corks wet. Bought 12 "00" horseshoes from tractor supply and welded them up. Used some steel rod to tie both ends together.- Moparmat2000
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- Forum: The Garage
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Custom made shop tools
The belt loader truck at our station has 2 service doors on the side right next to one another. One for fuel and one for hydraulic fluid. Even though these panels are clearly marked for gasoline and hydraulic fluid, the people at the terminal have put gasoline in the hydraulic reservoir 3 times...- Moparmat2000
- Post #228
- Forum: The Garage
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Custom made shop tools
We were "gifted" a "new" to us lav service truck for our station. Ford 2.3L fuel injected, automatic trans. I say new to us because the fuel was stale, and I think they pulled it out of storage somewhere and said hey ABI needs one, just give it them. lol. Several pieces of our Junque is...- Moparmat2000
- Post #227
- Forum: The Garage
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Custom made shop tools
That sounds sooo typical. A buddy of mine was a senior master sergeant running the local AFB GSE dept, and the waste that the military does is epic. The stuff he told me just shocked me.- Moparmat2000
- Post #225
- Forum: The Garage
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Custom made shop tools
Civilian use. Our pickup trucks, and the 2 company vans are gasoline too. We get what they give us to use. We go through their parts dept in DFW to get what we need to fix this stuff and they just put it on a flight coming in. I suppose that's why we have what we have motive power wise, because...- Moparmat2000
- Post #223
- Forum: The Garage
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Custom made shop tools
So I made this for the GSE guys for their battery charger and battery related stuff out of 1" square tube, and 1" angle. The hooks are for jumper cables, table top is for the batteries they might be charging. Underneath the table top is for a wheeled battery charger. The top shelf is for the...- Moparmat2000
- Post #222
- Forum: The Garage
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Custom made shop tools
As everybody here knows, I am an aircraft sheetmetal mechanic and I run a sheetmetal shop for a major air carrier. Well myself, and the crewchief opposite of me at the heavy check base I work at were "voluntold" that we would take over the GSE (ground support equipment) shop in addition to our...- Moparmat2000
- Post #219
- Forum: The Garage
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Tool Warranties... Who cares?
I have Snap On ratchets for home and work. No questions asked when warranty repair or replacement is needed. These rarely break. Other than that I have harbor freight sockets, craftsman, stanley proto, S&K, snap on. Never an issue with any of it.- Moparmat2000
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- Forum: The Garage
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1995 Silverado K1500 ECSB Starcraft Conversion
I promise, I wont clutter your thread. Just letting you know theres some good tin in my area. Got one salvage yard here that's 10 acres of stuff.- Moparmat2000
- Post #45
- Forum: Member Trucks
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1995 Silverado K1500 ECSB Starcraft Conversion
About $500-$600 for a good bed. Hard to find those not beat to hell though. Lot of burbs and Tahoe's in the yards. Same front clip. Buy a whole truck out of the newspaper, bring it home. Take what you need, and sell the rest. Up there, you will get more for it than we will down here. Down here...- Moparmat2000
- Post #43
- Forum: Member Trucks
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1995 Silverado K1500 ECSB Starcraft Conversion
My 94 has lived its whole life here. Not one rust hole in it anywhere.- Moparmat2000
- Post #42
- Forum: Member Trucks
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1995 Silverado K1500 ECSB Starcraft Conversion
Abilene TX junkyards. Lots of rust free steel here.- Moparmat2000
- Post #39
- Forum: Member Trucks
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1995 Silverado K1500 ECSB Starcraft Conversion
Make a trip to Abilene Tx. We have these things all over the place rust free.- Moparmat2000
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- Forum: Member Trucks
