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Are you sure that there aren’t removable panels below the battery? My Bx24 has them.

The new heater works great. It was 15* F and with the fan on low I was moving snow with just a flannel shirt on. No hat or gloves.

Nice little Honda. I had a CT70 when I was in grade school. Got my first broken bone (collar bone) on it in the 5th grade.

Tried out the brake yesterday on a piece of 14 or 16ga. It works good and will bend slightly past 90 deg. Need to cut some blocks to fit along side the lower die to center it in the brake. Also, need to make a longer cylinder ram extension to reach the bottom of the large die. Bought a...

Lil Foot, I have that same exact paper at work. Had it since high school 30+ years ago. Got my lower brake die welded today. I also have a 24-1/4” lower die with 1/2” and 1” wide V’s for material up to 1/8” thick. The limit switch and stops for the knee feed are mounted.

Added power feed to the knee on my mill. Best mod ever! Lol I re-clocked the handle so it is horizontal. Building a 24” finger brake for my press. All that’s left is to weld together the large lower die.

Thank you. It was definitely worth the work. Working in sub zero wind chill temperatures sucks. Now, I will stay warm and cozy.

It definitely puts out much more heat than my homemade contraption of a heater. I’ll hold off on the Hawaiian shirt shopping until I have done more thorough heater testing. Lol

I finally upgraded the heater today. It is rated at 13,200 BTU so it should heat the cab nicely. The door latch handle needs to be reworked because it hit the heater.

Thanks for the offer. A coworker gave me a handful of old endmills that I can practice on. Modified my indexer by turning around the spindle and making a clamping hub to hold the indexing disc. Also made an adapter to use my 5” 3 and 4 jaw Hardinge chucks. Added a 4” dust collector hose...

I came across this custom built wood truck at a tractor show last week. It was built on a 1974 GM K20 or K30 chassis. The cab is from a Case combine. The wood splitter swings out and has a trailer jack on the end to support it.

Almost finished with my cutter grinder and sharpened a couple endmills to try it out. Went to a swap meet Friday and bought a few things. Brown & Sharpe 12” vernier height gage in the original box. 8” and 4” forged C clamps. Starrett adjustable parallels, 5C collets and spin indexer...

I left mine on as well as the backhoe. Made it easy to fit a bucket underneath to drain the oil.

This is a great match to the ROPS color.

Replaced my torn tie rod boots with the poly boots from Botaproducts. Much thicker and more durable than the factory boots.