MachineMan

Yes, it depends where you are when it comes to how many, when, and where. It "was" no limit no cost here in Commiefornia. Then it became popular,.... so came, "Pig Tags". Cheap and available, but of course the state had to get their cut. Nice to meet another competitive shooter!, you may have seen me a time or two on tv. For ten years I was a competitor at, "The Speed Challenge", an event put on by the G.O.A.C. (Gun Owners Action Committee) I am proud to say that in those ten years I never finished out of the top three. The last time the event was held, I, for the first time, entered all four events. Iron sight pistol, optics pistol, iron sight rifle, optics rifle. Finished with three 2nd places, and a 4th. I looked forward to that annual event way more than Christmas. Some of the best times of my life bar none. Great to hear that your father was considered a master machinist. Did you the pictures of my work in the "1975" thread? Those spools were for an ITAR project and the other piece with the big pretty crisscross were for the space shuttle. The space shuttle parts were made from "Inconel X - 750,..... A material developed by Satan, and manufactured in Hell. Was your dad also an expert in precision grinding? If so, and he knocked out jobs like those I posted,... then I am Very Impressed. (jobs like those are difficult to say the least!) At one point there was only three holders of an 07 FFL in the state, (full blown manufacturer) I was one of those three. Good times!

IZRL, "You Heard Wrong! I have "decades" of experience dining on wild boar! The luck of having been raised in the trade by "Hungarians",...my mentor was a "Fantastic" cook. Let me describe our group,... Joe, my mentor, (Hungarian), and, as I said, a Fantastic cook. Micky, (Michelle), former owner of a fancy French restaurant in Los Angeles. Wolfe, a professional pastry chef that was trained in Austria. Pascal, owner of a high end French restaurant in Los Angeles. Bert, a Swiss "Master Chef", and former restaurant owner who taught some of worlds famous chefs. And then there's me, a former competitive shooter, and gunsmith, born on an Army base in Louisiana. (who is refereed to by clients and peers as a, "Master Machinist" IZRL, look at that group, then tell me that wild boar taste like crap. "More than once", food was served, and after a few bites, the whole table exploded in "Applause" Look up the Hungarian recipe named, (peppery boar). Never judge how good a game dinner can be from listening to a bunch of Hacks that don't know their elbow from a hot rock. Those wild boar dinners, of which I ate "countless times", still hold the record as the best food I have ever tasted. MM

It's been lifted, it's on 33" tires, nice aluminum rims, (5 of them), has a roof rack. I have a pair of extra doors, "wing window doors", an extra tailgate, a bunch of interior parts, an extra passenger side front fender, two new headlights, and two new KC look alikes. And some more odds and ends. It is rough, no doubt about that. Was owned by a guy in Utah,.... it got passed around a group of off road friends. I took a bus up there and drove back down it here almost 5 years ago.

Hey Stoff, I bought this little 720 and have to sell my 85" 4runner. I'm in the Valley,.... any help would finding it a new home would be great. Any ideas?

His profile says he's in "Ohio" IP says "Nigeria" Enough for me,...... and any member here. I say take up a collection, hire a professional, and "retire" the worthless scum. (I mean that in the nicest way) MM

I tried to warm up to the guy,....... I called him, "an ignorant, uneducated, unemployed, piece of human garbage" Yes,....I tried to make friends with the guy,.......... got no reply. No one can say I didn't try my best to be nice. MM

Look,..... there he is, and Mike is just above him hopefully with a sledgehammer in his hands.

I reported it to Mike, and then generated this thread. Mike traced his IP to Nigeria. I thought the guy got bopped,.... maybe somehow he slid back in? MM

This Scammer out of Nigeria is still rolling around on the site. Take a quick look at my profile page,.... he visited about an hour ago.'' "Buyer Beware" MM

If you look at their account they started in 2023 and based out of Cameroon I'm not paying for shipping from Cameroon,.... or from "Scameroon" Now that I have said it,................ it's policy. LOL MM

Thank you so much Crash. I'm completely new to Datsun / Nissan and any help from members here is like gold. Thanks again MM

Thank you guys.

You know there where the boot is larger than the shifter,...... a short piece of the right size hose, (measure the shaft and the boot), maybe power steering hose? slit it and stick it in there like an adapter. I would follow up with one of those skinny mini hose clamps. MM

My boot came today, looks nice. I have another question,.... where the shift stick enters / attaches to the transmission. There is a small rubber boot. Mine is tore up. Is that small boot available as a replacement piece?

Let's Vote, members speak your mind with your Vote,...... Bring back 3 strikes,.... Yes or No?

District Attorney George Gascon is reeking havoc here. Former San Francisco DA. Hard to believe, but he was too much even for the folks up there. They voted him out,.... and he came here. We tried recalling him, didn't work. His own assistant DA's have tried suing him,.... didn't work. We seem to be stuck with him. Lots of uninformed voters here, that is how things like this happen MM

Politicians and straight up socialist district attorneys are ham stringing law enforcement here. Lots of talk to use social workers instead of police in many instances. The inmates are running the asylum. MM

How many here have seen the movie "They Live" By John Carpenter? The question was, "How many here have seen the movie?" Have you seen the movie? MM

Mike, and IZRL, honestly? I'm just shy of 50 years in the trade, (six years in school not counted), I posted a picture of some of my work in the 1975 thread. And you think I can't tell one thread from another? Plus, I actually was the "Quality Manager" for an OEM supplier of lug nuts to General Motors. (Amcor Industries, maker of Gorilla Nuts) I can't tell one thread from another?,.... really? I have instruments here in my shop that read down into "millionths of an inch" I can show the difference in size between two different Gage Blocks of the same stated size. And you figure I can't tell the difference between two threads. Gee, thanks for the insult,.... likely the worse I have ever received. MM

Sorry, no chance of that what so ever!! OK, time to teach, class please pay attention. Let's start with taps. You may have noticed, (or not), good / high quality taps have an "H" or "GH" designation followed by a number. (examples: H3, GH2, etc) What that indicates is the amount of oversize from the true size. Each number reflects .0005", a 3 for instance indicates .0015" over true size, H2 would be .001" over. So guys, in lay mans lingo, it's a "half a thou over for each value of the number stated" Why? Easy, what happens when you "plate", apply any "coating", or, in this instance, "Case Harden" a workpiece? Answer,.... the workpiece "Grows". Now consider a thread, in this case an "internal thread", growth in this feature creates "shrinkage" An O.D. grows, and I.D. grows as well,..... an I.D. grows "IN". Think about it,...... you send a batch of fasteners out for plating, some nuts and some bolts. If they are plated "all over" the external threads will grow larger, the internal threads will grow "Smaller" That is why a plating house will "Mask Off" threads as to not change their size. If the blueprint says, "plate all over", and it's a threaded workpiece, you have to plan ahead,....... You go under size on an external thread, and the plating brings it "up" to size. You go "oversize" on an internal thread, and the plating brings it "down" into size. Right now you're saying, "makes sense", "but case hardening isn't plating" Of course it isn't, but it has the same effect. Case hardening "introduces carbon into the workpiece" It has to go somewhere, "it's pure Physics,.... "two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time" So, in the case of an "internal thread" that is subject to Case Hardening you have to "plan ahead". You incorporate the use of a higher number H or GH tap. Depending on the specs. An example would be to use an H or GH tap, depending on the requirements, perhaps an H5 or H6, (GH5 GH6). Then when the predicted "Growth" takes place the internal thread "shrinks" into size, (H2 or GH2 or so). It's called, "Planning" That is why blueprints state, "final sizes reflected here are "after" plating and any other outside processing" Now, these chi-com Hacks used a tap size that didn't allow for the "Growth" that would take place in Case Hardening. Yielding an "under sized thread" do to the processing "after the feature was established" That is why these lug nuts are "Squeaky" tight and actually get hot, (due to friction), when trying to install them. I am not just a, precision machinist, precision grinder, and toolmaker, with nearly "50 years experience" I'm an expert in "Failure Analysis" Which is why the FAA offered me a job as a crash scene investigator. Class dismissed. MM

How many here have seen the movie "They Live" By John Carpenter? Years after the movie was in the theaters Roddy Piper sat down for an interview. He talked about how the movie was way ahead of it time. Not long after,..... he was found dead.

Well here is a "Very Good" example of the subject at hand!! The little 720 I just bought,......missing a lug nut. So I spring for some replacements for all four wheels. An existing lug nut came off without any issue. "The replacements on the other hand!!!" Absolute out of spec Garbage!! Sent them a "Flaming" message, even enlightened them "How" their vendors screw up happened. Talking to an agent on ebay,.... I guess that doesn't happen anymore. Some AI assistant that didn't understand jack crap. It's not just that I have so many years in the trade, back in the day I was the "Quality Manager" for "Amcor Industries". Amcor Industries Inc Amcor Industries, Inc., doing business Gorilla Automotive Products, provides automotive products. The company offers lug nuts, lugs and locks, racing lugs, lug bolts and bolt locks, valve stems and tire pressure gauges, thin wall sockets, lug wrench adapters, sockets, and power wrenches. Gorilla Automotive Products serves clients in the State of California. They were at the time, and for many years, OEM supplier to General Motors. Lug nuts for the Corvette, Firebird, Trans Am,... etc. "I" was the one entrusted to make certain the lug nuts were within all the specifications. The spec was, I still remember it, PQS 15-200. It has since been superseded. Much more than just the minor ID, the thread dimensions, and pitch. I had to verify the material, (stainless and carbon steel), had to part samples in half, lap the faces to about a 4 finish then under the toolmakers microscope measure the depth of the case hardening. Tension Testing, Elongation,.... the whole deal. There was even an accelerated "salt spray test, to check for corrosion resistance. Those idiots sent those pieces of trash to the wrong person. I am tired of dealing with crappy companies, buying the cheapest trash available,..... then not inspecting the parts they receive, and again not checking before they ship to an end user. An end user that is out on the public streets and highways a danger to themselves and all around them. I'm giving a heads up to the DOT and the FTA. I these were aircraft fasteners with one phone call they would be in handcuffs. The seller is, get this,.......DP SPEC AUTOMOTIVE LOL, they wouldn't know a "Spec" if it jumped up and bit em' on the backside. Let's see how much luck these hacks have explaining their themselves to the feds.

I remember IN-N-Out closing that location. Too much crime was the reasoning as I remember. One of the earliest IN-N-Out's is down the street from me a few blocks. (Lankershim Blvd) I watched them build it,..... 1971 I believe. I used to train across the street, "Bill Ryuzaki's Ryu Dojo" next door to the school,.... Joe Woo's Chinese Kitchen, across the street, Suzuki Fun Center. The "Animal Style" is attributed to my high school football team. North Hollywood Huskies,..... they ordered their burgers a certain way. One day when a large group was there devouring food, the manager said,...... "What a bunch of animals" Thus was born the, "Animal Style" Some years ago I called IN-N-Out corporate and ran the story by them,...... They Laughed and confirmed it. Good Times! MM

These "square barrel" units were used by friends of mine for Desert Racing As were "AJS", and "Greeves".

My bike is in storage. The only vehicle I ever bought new. 1975 Suzuki TS 250 Preston Petty tank and fenders, shouldered Akronts, Bassani pipe, Andre's bars, UNI levers, the forks are off the MX version, (TM). I have a TM engine complete up stairs. Yes that's a custom made "Red Line" swing arm. Tons of fun, up to all the accidents. MM