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10-25-2006, 07:33 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Green River Kentucky
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|  How to turn down stock tlt shocks. I am working on a scale tlt build and was wanting to run the turned down tlt shocks but I wanted to do it myself and save cash for other things so here is what I did to turn them down. First thing you need is a drill press a file and the tlt shocks  The second thing you need to do is chuck the small end into the drill press like this.  The next thing is to turn the drill press on and use the file to remove the aluminum from the shock body.  What I did was watch the shock body and keep removing material till the main body was level with the small end then when it was I removed the shock and chucked it back into the press so that I could turn down the small end just enough to remove the gold.   Here is a stock shock VS the turned down shock.I will use sand paper to do a smooth finish on them later on.  Here all all 4 shocks done and ready to be installed.  |
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10-25-2006, 07:39 PM
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| Gold Star Baby!   Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In Kahoots!!!!!
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| Nice job JB. I think thats how I'll do mine. How long did it take to do each one? |
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10-25-2006, 07:41 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Green River Kentucky
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| After I did the first one and figured out how much pressure they could take about 5 minutes a pop.Its super easy to do and looks O so good.  One thing I do have to do is use some oven cleaner or something to remove the gold on the shock tops or I will polish them from top to bottom. |
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10-25-2006, 07:47 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Central NY
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| I'm going to do that with the ones I got just for the hell of it. Looks really nice just for a file. Good thinkin'. |
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10-25-2006, 07:49 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: North GA
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| Nice job! I did pretty much the same thing, but mounted a file in the clamp on my mill.  A wire wheel does a nice job getting the rest of the gold off and gives a cool brushed finish. |
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10-25-2006, 10:09 PM
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| I wanna be Dave   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding from Goodall
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| Did you have trouble with the file clogging? |
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10-25-2006, 10:12 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Green River Kentucky
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| I just tapped it every 30 seconds or so to get all the crap off it and it never clogged. |
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10-25-2006, 10:21 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Reno
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| thats a good cheap trick, i might do that, or do it to my friends  i like how they look turned down |
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10-25-2006, 10:22 PM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Louisville Kentucky
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| Neato. I would just leave the cap gold- kinda breaks things up a bit. |
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10-25-2006, 10:43 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: It's good to be a Pirate!
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| Those look really good. I have a couple of sets I might need to do. |
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10-25-2006, 10:43 PM
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| AKA TOKEN  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: "Used" Mexico
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| Is this a sticky yet? Nice job dude.I'll post pics of mine! |
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10-25-2006, 10:45 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: It's good to be a Pirate!
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| Paint them white and put Rancho stickers on them. |
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10-25-2006, 10:51 PM
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| 1 man, 2 sons   Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Recovering@ the hobby garage MT.
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| nice pics and write up JB, great Scale idea to put in the scale tricks thread 1BJB;) |
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10-25-2006, 10:54 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: May 2005 Location: United States Of America
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If you have some spares you can cut them down and produce a "reservoir" type shock. | |
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10-25-2006, 10:55 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Green River Kentucky
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Thanks for the idea I will do that. | |
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10-25-2006, 11:15 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: So*Cal
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10-26-2006, 01:07 AM
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| Moderator   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In my head
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| Good job looks cool!!! |
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10-26-2006, 12:48 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Green River Kentucky
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| Can a mod PLEASE sticky this. |
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10-26-2006, 12:58 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Bethlehem, GA
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| VERY Nice job. Easy too. I like it. I will use that for my next scale build. |
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10-26-2006, 01:06 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Tennessee
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