I need a couple suggestions/recommendations
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Theres a guy in town here that makes custom braided fuel lines, i can get the guys name for ya if you want, its at work. if its just a hard line you need made up just give me a call and bring what you need made and i'll get ya hooked up.
The only shop i can think of off the top of my head with a lathe though is Thursons (i think thats right) on main west of I29.
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moparguy;176553 wrote:
The only shop i can think of off the top of my head with a lathe though is Thursons (i think thats right) on main west of I29.Are you thinking of Thurlow's welding and machine? They are west of I-29 , right next to Union Storage on main and have a lathe.
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Bookem;176573 wrote:
Are you thinking of Thurlow's welding and machine? They are west of I-29 , right next to Union Storage on main and have a lathe.thats them. I always get there name wrong. if you can get them off their coffee break they seem to do good work. haha
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Well, fargo hose directed me to Fargo Engine and Machine on 3rd ave. N just west of 27th st. The guy there was really helpfull and since I had to go get the fuel hose myself, he charged me a grand total of 2 dollars. What a guy.
Then I went to thurlows and that is not the place to get small, custom lathe work done, I'd rather buy a lathe myself than take something there. I'm sure they've done plenty of good work, but the guy who I talked to was all shakey and dirty as hell. Maybe I'd take my driveshaft there for some spicer joints, maybe.... if I wanted to wait 3 weeks.
So, I need to find a place that is open minded and creative when it comes to customizing car parts. Anyone have a lathe I can borrow for like 30 minutes?
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the guys that are dirty in that business usually know what their doing better. haha
u joints are easy to install though, so I'd just do it myself.
sorry the machine shop deal didnt work out.
I dont know of anybody else who has a lathe, at least nobody else that ive ever used.
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Eh, it wasn't so much the dirtyness of the guys, I just thought that was the most striking feature of the guy. Like maybe he hadn't showered in a spell.
The wait time didn't sound fun, and mostly, I think they are into bigger stuff that doesn't have any wires attatched. I will look a bit more. Maybe they'll have to do. We'll see!
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I was gonna say, my dad has a lathe in our gun shop, but its down in fergus falls. I also know a retired machinist from there that can make practically anything, from the tar wagon the city uses down to a completely homemade black powder pistol, which he machined every part from scratch.
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