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What to build, oh, what to build

I would wipe them down with a wet rag to remove any metal dust first. If it's very small particles it may come right through your shop vac... :no: The waxy stuff might come off with solvent anyway, rather than such a crude attack as sanding. :D

I wouldn't think 2" mahogany would have troublesome resonances for speaker applications, as was implied above. Heavier'n'shee-it!
 
I agree Tox, should not resonate at all. And yes, my plan was to wipe then down with water then a mild solvent, but there is discoloration on every block and the waxy stuff, that is what the sander is for.
 
Dennis, if the test unit works out particularly well, It would be neat to make a mold of the horn parts so I can make one out of epoxy granite. :)
 
djnagle said:
That is my industral motor bike. I built it back in 2002.

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DJ,
Your fantastic custom jogged my memory of the "Roadog," also an in-line 4 cylinder. But when I Googled up a pic of it, I saw it had trailing link front suspension.
http://www.walneckswap.com/miscpage_001.asp
Can't wait to see what you do with the mahogany horns.
 
Hey Sky, in the winter of 2000 I was sitting in a biker clubhouse with some old friends very high and very drunk and there was a poster of Roadog behind the bar. We started talking about it and at one point I said, "I could do better". That was the start of the Industral Motor Bike.
 
Cool bike, I would think you have the makings of a dynamite gear rack (doesn't have to be hydraulic, though) :D.
 
OK, you got it!!! The stack of wood will turn into a pair of big ass horns for my JBL 2441 drivers and a gear rack. The place where my gear rack is now is a bit too narrow for the wood I have and Dan needs wood for a pair of horns so I have to rethink how much and what style the rack will be.

Dan had a great idea to use thick turned stainless steel bar stock for uprights on the rack instead of wood and that would work better....I think.
 
Looks like it would be easier to get into the cutting board business..

I still love that bike.... You still ride it, or just waiting to sell it to me? :D
 
djnagle said:
Hey Sky, in the winter of 2000 I was sitting in a biker clubhouse with some old friends very high and very drunk and there was a poster of Roadog behind the bar. We started talking about it and at one point I said, "I could do better". That was the start of the Industral Motor Bike.
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You couldn't have been too toasted if you remembered the conversation well enough to build the bike after that night.. :D
 
similost said:
You couldn't have been too toasted if you remembered the conversation well enough to build the bike after that night.. :D
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Hey Sim, that conversation took on a life of it's own. For weeks afterward I carried a notepad and scribbled out all the bits and pieces of the bike. It was done a year later.

I mis-calculated the hydraulic pump requirments so it only goes 54 mph before going to Pop-off. I got the pump for cheap and the real one is $3K and I just don't have that now. Other than that, it is complete and running.
 
A little planing, cutting, gluing, sanding and staining = nice mahogany coffee table (or end table) :)

Try it! I built my end table out of a pile of wood similar :)

(Its made out of red oak, but the stripes on top are mahogany to remind me of my hometown in costa rica, and the date is wrong.. I took it today)
 

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Those are all cool looknig pieces. Here is what I will start with. The big midhorns are Cosmos'. Mine will be mahogany.

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