Recent content by BrassBuilder

I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate...but I'm guessing you are a happy camper with this buy? :) Mike

I still pop in from time to time. But still no time to work on this. Still working 80-90 hr weeks. A couple of updates. 1. I am retiring sometime between Oct 2018 and Sep 2019 so that will free up some time hopefully. At this stage in my life, I don't want another full time job. 2. Never...

Rental trucks must stop at the MN/SD border one too. I am guessing UHAUL trucks are included. I've driven past in my Suburban and a UHAUL trailer without any problems.

Hey...quick update and to answer a question or two.... 1. The load....I need to get the truck done first! LOL. Honestly, when I first started in on scratchbuilding, I was going to build an M88 recovery vehicle. I even took a few hundred pics and measurements and started building the tracks. I...

Well....got the workbenches repainted and put back in. Moving forward anyway. Also took on a part time job to get a few extra bucks each week. Sighs....

No updates. I'd been thinking about getting back here but never seem to find the time. I got the basement project mostly done and have a huge area for the machine shop. Unfortunately, the surplus business is taking off and that eats up valuable free time. But I have a list of "to do" items that...

Thanks John! I will do that sometime! I know I haven't posted in a while, but the project is far from dead. I started over on the radiator (again) and made all new fins....only to decide that if I made the slots through the fins a little narrower it will help my ability to get a nice clean...

I might toss the radiator aside and go onto something else so I can get some progress. I just cannot for the life of me get a small enough amount of solder put in place. The space between the fins fill up with too much solder. The stuff I have is 1/32" but I don't know the melting temp of it. I...

Hey Everyone! This project isn't dead...just haven't had any time to work on it. After I got back from Afghanistan, the Army decided it was a good idea to send me to Germany for a couple of weeks on a project. Then I had a bunch of weekends tied up with work...and I have a shop in town that we...

Hey Dennis, Yeah...I was buying the film from a US supplier for awhile and then they just up and stopped stocking it, so I went the China route. I was searching around after this last fiasco and I found a company in NC. The thing is, they aren't too much more expensive than getting it from...

No update yet but I am working on this. Been having issues with my photo etch operation that has been driving me up the wall. Without going into a great many technical details (unless anyone is familiar with photo etch processes...), the last batch of photo resist film I received was bad....and...

Getting into too thin category. I think I used .032" aluminum strips to keep the spacing between the fins uniform. I think I have some .025 around that I'll use instead. Starting to make the new fins. Hoping to get a bunch more run this weekend. I want to start building! Mike

I'm baaaaaack! Hoping to get back on this project soon. I'm going to start over on the radiator. After I figured out a technique, the last few fins that I soldered in look a lot better than the first few that I soldered. I'm also going to etch the fins out of .003 brass instead of the .004 that...

I'm in Afghanistan right now :) Life just can't get any peachier for me LOL. I'm going to get back on the truck just as soon as I get back. Been itching to work on it again. Working on getting a CAD program down to help me get some parts made. Should be back in a few months. Thanks for the...

I should have thought of that myself.... Total tally so far: 88 fins 44 "tubes" (actually 1/4" strips representing tubes) 3872 solder joints (each intersection of the fin and tube gets soldered....one at a time...) The setup so I can see what the heck I am doing. I got a trinocular...