I believe Van Norman made a resurfacing grinder like that. A guy in the Albany, NY area had one for sale that I came close to buying, but didn't. I'm long since out of space due to my machine collecting habit. Imagine the game tetris with all the blocks shaped like lathes, mills, grinders, shapers, ...

I have a 6x18 surface grinder to resurface the manifold. If you meant Ford 427 before, you are probably aware of the long cast headers. I have a set of C5 headers in my 68 wagon that took a lot of flat sanding on 60 grit paper glued down to a drill press table. It was probably still quicker than set...

If I have to try it I might. I saw a video of a guy welding a crack on a cylinder head in a BBQ grill like mentioned above.
427? The way you say 7 liter makes it sounds like a Galaxie. Or do you mean Chevrolet?

The crack is in the up close pic.

Thanks for the how-to replies. I might have to attempt it on my own as I haven't yet found a shop that this is their forte. I don't want the "well, I'll give it a try..." and have it not go so well. There are guys around me that are very good welders, but no specialist of cast iron.

The manifold isn't available new. But, there are plenty of used ones. I'd gladly go that route if date codes weren't important. I have a few of those and none are as nice as this one. This manifold is original and has the proper casting and date code. The manifold will be painted and the car isn't a...

How in depth?---well, I was looking for a heat treat oven for a while to be able to preheat and control cool this part. But, I think sending it out might be the best bet. Just not sure where.

hi CJ737,
I've seen that episode before. Jody did say he thought it wasn't a good repair for a manifold that goes through heating and cooling cycles.

Hey guys, What I have is a cast iron exhaust manifold that has a crack. The easy thing to do would be to replace this manifold. However, it is original to the car with the correct date code and in excellent shape minus the crack. The repair I am looking for needs to be not visible. A row of dimes wo...

If I am the end user of an item, like tools, then I pay the tax. Here is an example. If you buy a die grinder with a cut off wheel to use for work performed on a customer's car, I would pay tax on the die grinder because am keeping it as the end user. The cut off wheel is considered a consumable use...

I'm quickly finding out Airgas is a pain in the ass. They are charging me tax. I have a shop with a tax ID for resale. Consumables used in performing the work are covered by this exemption. I know I submitted my tax number when I opened the account last year. Maybe it needs to be submitted annually....

Yesterday, I received the new CK torch and hose set for the tig welder. I got everything hooked up. This time, I made sure to fill the Miller Coolmate 3. I turned it on and nothing. It would trip the breaker on the machine. The unit was brand new, but sitting around for who knows many years. I took ...

WHOA!!!!!!! adding the S does work!!!! Thanks DavidR8 for that tip!

Thanks for the technical reply. So I would need to have Hi-freq switch set to start or continuous for welding steel?

10% prestone, with the 90% being distilled water?

Thanks,
Mark

Yes, it was at 150a. I started at 70 amps trying to imagine the setting I'd use with mig or stick. I kept turning the amps up hoping the arc would appear without shorting the tungsten. I wonder if the wire was corroded. There was residual liquid in the hose since I got the welder 6 years ago. It cou...

Yup, good ground. Definitely the torch/hoses. I was about the walk out the door and head home and spotted a set of jumper cables on the wall. I pulled them down and got out a piece of welding stick. Hooked the jumper cable to the Electrode lug on the machine and struck a hefty arc with the stick. No...

Here is what I just tried. I turned on the welder. Using a volt meter Between the workpiece and the tungsten, the voltage measured -56 volts. Test between the workpiece and the electrode lug and it is -71 volts. The negative number is just because the polarity of how I attached the volt meter. To fu...

Hi Alan,
Thanks for the quick reply. I did try resharpening the electrode. Still, ther eisn't even a spark when I touch the electrode to the workpiece. My feeling is something is off or failed. Just need to narrow it down.

Mark

Tonight, April 25th 2020 I struck my first TIG arc. The Miller Syncrowave 300 I have is possibly of 1980 vintage. I held the TIG tip close to the workpiece and nothing happened--on-off-on-off the pedal. Holding the pedal on, I got it a little closer until it touched the workpiece, then the arc start...

Some of the guys on PM are very particular and will let you know about something they don't like. 'ya think? :lol: What about the merc resonators, did you mig those? If so would you have tig's them given the Syncrowave was setup? The reason I ask is I see people that do tig on body panels, but rece...

After a further researching I did find some stuff at Airgas Website. Instead of giving the part numbers to the sales guy at the local airgas I decided to order them from the website. This way it avoids me a 40 minute trip to AirGas.

thanks,
Mark

Hey guys, I'm not sure why I am having such a hard time finding a water hose to go from a Miller Syncrowave 300 to a Coolmate 3. I don't even need the whole hose. Just a 1/4" hose barb adaptor. I called airgas, he didn't know. All the water hoses in MSC and Grainger seem to only have one end---...

Some of the guys on PM are very particular and will let you know about something they don't like.

I have the same name on Practical Machinist. If you do a search through there you might some of my machines. Also, I have a youtube channel, not a whole lot of uploads, but some stuff I think it cool.

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hi Alan, Anything is possible and we could find out as my mother gave me one of those ancestry.com DNA kits. I haven't used it yet as I feel it is somewhat of a "big brother" scam. Now, my heavy iron fleet in the shop consists of 3 Van Norman mills, 2 P&W lathes, Monarch 60 series lath...