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Don at the wheel
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The wheel itself, acme thread car jack in the lower arm is run by the handwheel
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Don demonstrates how the anvil may be moved sideways to work the very edge of a sharp bend.
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Wire frame model and hood for custom snowmobile.
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Don shows Chrissy one of the battery boxes he made for the prototype of the Excelcior-Henderson motorcycle and the pull-max dies he used to make the parts.
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Don forming on the shot bag with a wooden slapper.
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Don's post dolly. Like a tailors ham it has constantly changing radii as you go around it and is symetrical so you can do both sides of something.
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Metal to metal repairs. the parts are welded in and then forged smooth.
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after forging and light sanding any tiny pits are acid etched and soldered. before finish sanding and painting. Solder does not pop out like bondo.
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Misc jigs and hammers that Don uses.
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Don's kinking tool, used to start shrinking the edges of a panel. Don says the have to be soft steel or they break, and that the inner surface radii are important. From the way it looked and he described it a flat ellipse, so that it held the material for kinking but still left a rounded edge that was easy to beat smooth.
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Don and his son, with a pet project, a quarter scale Cobra.