359: Grandpa’s Old CNC Machine
Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto
I Like To Make Stuff
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So last week I think I talked about the Land Cruiser. I was going to get the motor that |
| 0:07.6 | day, right? |
| 0:08.6 | Yes. |
| 0:09.6 | And you kept on. |
| 0:10.6 | So you made it safely. |
| 0:11.6 | I did make it safely back. And I have to say, I was a little proud of myself, and this |
| 0:19.0 | is dumb, but whatever. So I drove all the way down to Tennessee, like three hours to get |
| 0:24.8 | this motor. I got to this farm, this late name, Aaron, was the one that sold it to me. |
| 0:31.0 | She was super cool and driving a tractor and totally like picked up the motor and set |
| 0:36.0 | it in trailer and everything for me. She was awesome. And so we strapped this thing |
| 0:40.8 | down, and it was a little five by eight trailer, very light duty trailer. And so we dropped |
| 0:47.2 | the entire motor. This is everything, not the transmission, but the entire everything |
| 0:51.3 | else, right? |
| 0:52.3 | So big hunk of stuff. I dropped the thing over the axles, and then I strapped it down. |
| 0:58.3 | And I strapped it down with ratchet straps, because that's what I had. And I realized, |
| 1:02.8 | as I got there, I'm like, I have no clue how to strap this thing down. So it's sitting |
| 1:07.5 | on a tire, you know, so it has a little squish and has a little stand for it. But I'm like, |
| 1:11.4 | I don't know how this thing is going to try to move. Never even thought about it. |
| 1:15.4 | I don't know. |
| 1:16.4 | The brakes will go forward. |
| 1:17.4 | Yeah. Well, I didn't know if it like, you know, is it going to, is it more weighted in |
| 1:22.8 | one side than the other? Like I just didn't know anything about it. So we decided to strap |
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