Would you reuse these rotors?

Are these rotors (pictured) safe for use?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Measure first before voting

    Votes: 9 90.0%

  • Total voters
    10
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It's never to late.

We got a great FABO discount at our shop. I will make what ever you want at no charge. Just come hang out or send me your drawing.

Ask Jpar I spent a ton of hours on his scoop and he didn't like it so It went into the scrap bin and I still wanna make him something.
That is an awesome discount!! Where are you located? I'd like to hang out with some fellow members. I have thought about adding a scoop to my car. I always wanted to put a shaker on my ram thought that would look cool.
 
Cool I always wanted to get into machine shop and never did It. I always like metal work I do some amature gunsmithing. I can do a some stuff with a lathe but I wish I would have went to school and really learned it. It would be so cool to work for myself. Machine work weither it be for engines guns knifes or just general fabrication is not cheap wish I would have pursued that dream. Oh well live and learn lol
I always wanted a lathe,never run one. So i found one that was affordable. 1947 southbend.
Then i watched tubalcain videos on youtube. Smart feller. Learned a lot.
 
It's never to late.

We got a great FABO discount at our shop. I will make what ever you want at no charge. Just come hang out or send me your drawing.

Ask Jpar I spent a ton of hours on his scoop and he didn't like it so It went into the scrap bin and I still wanna make him something.
Just curious do you have a pic of the one you made jpar?
 
Looks like a long drive for ya. My shop is in San Jose (bay area) California.

If you can think it up, I can make it.

It's worth the free advertising and my hours to make stuff for good FABO folks.
 
I always wanted a lathe,never run one. So i found one that was affordable. 1947 southbend.
Then i watched tubalcain videos on youtube. Smart feller. Learned a lot.
I can do the basics on a lathe. I have turned a barrel, crowned, chambered etc the only thing I didnt learn was threading and it basically does itself you just know how to set it up change the gears etc.
 
I do not. It was a tapered Pentagon with the 5 point star in 3D as the front for a twin carb tunnel ram.
 
Looks like a long drive for ya. My shop is in San Jose (bay area) California.

If you can think it up, I can make it.

It's worth the free advertising and my hours to make stuff for good FABO folks.
yea that is quite the drive lol. I'd love to see some of your work you should post some pics. I may have you make me a scoop just to add some character and so I can advertise for you!!
 
PM me your number and I'll take some pics of stuff and text them to ya.

What we do is metal work. Aluminum interior, roll cages, flat beds, bumpers, consoles, scoops.

If its metal I can build it.

Hopefully.........

:)
 
PM me your number and I'll take some pics of stuff and text them to ya.

What we do is metal work. Aluminum interior, roll cages, flat beds, bumpers, consoles, scoops.

If its metal I can build it.

Hopefully.........

:)
Cool deal thanks
 
Sorry to side track your thread.
I remember I was 16 and ran the machine shop at my family's auto parts store. My step dad played me minimum wage. One day a guy walks into the shop and asked "hey kid, who runs the shop?" I replied "I run it, what can I do for ya sir?"
He kinda looked around at the cars on the lifts, all the cylinder heads, the steaming hot tank, roasting oven, a head tumbling in the tumbler, short blocks on stands and said, "where's your mechanic?" I replied that's me sir, what can I do for ya?"
He said, you can come work for me. I'll pay you 10 dollars cash an hour. I walked up stairs. Told my step day I quit and moved out the next day.
I use to work until the boss left then I would sleep in my car in the parking lot until a half hour before he showed up and act like I got to work early...
Good times!
Not sure why all this came out but turning rotors just brought me back.
Long story short. Buy new rotors.
:)

Love that story.

Happy Mopar :)
Arron
 
Looks like a long drive for ya. My shop is in San Jose (bay area) California.

If you can think it up, I can make it.

It's worth the free advertising and my hours to make stuff for good FABO folks.
That's good to know man. I'm in the gilroy/ Hollister area. ;)
 
Me, in my younger days, I would take an angle grinder with a sanding pad, with the rotor on the car sand away. If you was good with holding the grinder/sander, it will spin the rotor while your working. It was just enough to get the glaze off and the rusty edges. And I have also brought the rotors in to have them turn, only to be told it would be to thin to have them cleaned up. I told the guy to clean up the one side with the grooves, it passed the thickness test.
And to make sure, I am not telling any one to do such things, not recommend by NO means. But this is what I had to work with. It got me by......Now days, measure by the book, no pass, buy new....
 
I can do the basics on a lathe. I have turned a barrel, crowned, chambered etc the only thing I didnt learn was threading and it basically does itself you just know how to set it up change the gears etc.
Threading is very simple really. If you can turn a barrel you can cut a thread. Start with a thread that has a pitch corresponding to your lead screw and you can engage or disengage the thread feed on any mark on your threading gauge.

Take small cuts and work the threads deeper and deeper until you have the desired contact. Start with scrap and just get the feel for it. Its almost magical watching it work. I am no machinist, but I took classes all through high school and in my mid 40s now all my buddies ask me for parts fabricated and repaired.

Very rewarding.
 
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