Ok, that's hawt.I needed to add a couple electrical accessories to my buggy. The builder made it very easy to access all of the wiring by mounting the cowl with 4 bolts. Pull those bolts and move the body panels forward, and it’s all open.
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Glorious paint. 😍Pulling this old girl out or the shop after a month long t-case seal change that turned into a T/C overhaul, oil change and tons of cleanup
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Finally getting to play with some new tools, got the compressor mounted and started on the MJ front bumper with my new JD2 Model 32 w/ Swag air/hydro, I'm very happy with the setup. I also picked up a couple JD2 bendicator protractors and a Swag off plane bend bracket which are pretty sweet. I need to figure out an air dryer system for the compressor and route lines around the shop at some point.
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Finally getting to play with some new tools, got the compressor mounted and started on the MJ front bumper with my new JD2 Model 32 w/ Swag air/hydro, I'm very happy with the setup. I also picked up a couple JD2 bendicator protractors and a Swag off plane bend bracket which are pretty sweet. I need to figure out an air dryer system for the compressor and route lines around the shop at some point.
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Have you seen the new Swag bender? The pins are giant and the arms are all 3/4" instead of 1/2". Pretty sweet looking.Works well but there are times I wish I had the larger diameter pins for that extra peace of mind when bending thicker walled tubing.
Have you seen the new Swag bender? The pins are giant and the arms are all 3/4" instead of 1/2". Pretty sweet looking.
Mine goes compressor --> condensor--> tank--> outlet. With the small air regulator and water separator/filter dryer I get minimal moisture if drained regularly like it should. If I leave town and come home after a month or so and the compressor has been used by my boys/wife it's a different story.
Very helpful. Thank you.I have not seen the Swag bender. I know my Model 2 has 7/8" pins and the newer Model 32 has 1-1/4" pins. That's a substantial amount but not enough to make me sell my Model 2 with all of my dies and move to another bender. To be honest, most of the tubing I work with is .095" and thinner wall in 4130 chromoly so the Model 2 works perfectly. When building the suspension links for my son's WJ using 1.75" diameter .250" wall tubing was the only time I really wished I had the larger pins as I slightly bent one of mine. Nothing a little persuasion in the hydraulic press didn't resolve but at that time I had wished for larger pins but that was the only time in all these years. Other than that it has performed flawlessly.
Mine is routed in the same manner. Out of the head, to the "auxiliary" condenser, back into the tank, out of the tank through a ball valve and about 5' of hose to a water separator mounted on the wall with a drain. I open the drain weekly, each Saturday morning, and seldom get anything but a light mist out of it. I have a ball valve with a small hose on the bottom of the tank as well and I keep a gallon jug next to the compressor that I dump the air from the tank into once a month and only get a small amount there as well. It takes me quite a while to fill the gallon jug before disposing.
Here you can see the ball valve and hose from the tank and it is heading to the water separator mounted on the back wall of the RV/storage bay.
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Here is the plumbing that I added coming from the head (discharge side of compressor) to the auxiliary condenser mounted to the back of the squirrel cage. I also added the pressure relief here in a cast "T".
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Here you can see the new copper line coming out of the auxiliary condenser to the tank.
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Hope the pics are helpful.
Mike
Talk to me about that staircase. Looks 'shallow' which I love and need something similar in my home shop.