Re: Worked on my 300u today!! Pics Inside!!

Posted by JayWalt on December 12, 2006 at 21:38:42 from (24.223.138.48):

In Reply to: Worked on my 300u today!! Pics Inside!! posted by JayWalt on December 12, 2006 at 19:46:41:

$$$ is the name of the game. 1X3 flat stock is $$$ around here. Probly $30 at the very least, depending on length. The valves are not cheap, going for 100+ a valve from the ones I've seen. I got these 2 selector vavles for $17 for both of them on clearance at TSC (was $67, marked down to $7.99!!!) It's all about being cheap. I had all this stuff laying around, so I did it. It may not be the best way to do it, but considering what I have, and not wanting to spend mney, I dont think I did half bad. I've seen alot more rigged and halfass setups then this. When I get the blade on and the points dont get ripped off, I'll consider it a success.
I dont have a torch (there 200+ with tank lease and fillup), no vocational schools or anything for them to do me some fabbing for free, nothing around here. None of the damn scrapyards around here let you buy stuff from them, even if you pay them what they get for the steel. They dont want the liabilty of someoe getting hurt while digging through the piles. I've called all scrapyards withing 20 miles to no avail.
If I had the correct tools, machines, and metal stock, I would have made a set of lower link forks, but this will have to do. When I get a second implement (I dont know what I would need tho), then I might consider a different setup. The drawbar is far from wasted, cut the pieces off and grindem flat and the drawbar is as good as it was. Nobody welded the drawbar in there, but its bent out and is a PITA to get in and out.

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