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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Jul 21, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: "finished" my tower |
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Turned these feet and towpoint out on the lathe the other day:
More to come... _________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!"
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sanddragon2004 Outlaw
Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 152 City: San Jose
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Posted: Jul 22, 2005 6:07 am Post subject: |
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wallrat? do you ride quads? their is a guy with that name in glamisdunes, and planetsand? _________________ sport nautique |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Jul 22, 2005 6:32 am Post subject: |
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Yeah I've got a YFZ 450, a banshee, and a CR250. I dunno if I'm the 'Wallrat' in question since although I believe I've joined both planetsand and glamisdunes, I rarely if ever post there. Mostly I'm on bansheehq if anything. _________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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sanddragon2004 Outlaw
Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 152 City: San Jose
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Posted: Jul 22, 2005 6:35 am Post subject: |
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Thats where ive seen you! im an advertiser on bansheehq!
so what else are you making for towers?????????? _________________ sport nautique |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Jul 22, 2005 6:41 am Post subject: |
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Well right now I gotta get the tubes bent. I was hoping to rent or buy one but nobody rents em around here and the cheapest they go for is $800 with one die. So I gotta pay about $200 on Monday to get everything bent, then weld it all up and send it out to get powdercoated. After that I'm gonna work on racks and a fiberglass speaker enclosure for the tower.
Now that you mention it I recognized the name...your the guy in the LT thread. _________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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sanddragon2004 Outlaw
Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 152 City: San Jose
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Posted: Jul 22, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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how much you planning on selling them for? _________________ sport nautique |
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sanddragon2004 Outlaw
Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 152 City: San Jose
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Posted: Jul 22, 2005 8:45 am Post subject: |
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If your interested in selling them Let me know! _________________ sport nautique |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Jul 22, 2005 10:22 am Post subject: |
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Which part? The individual pieces, whole towers, or racks and speaker enclosures? Regardless I'm not ready to sell anything just yet. I'm just trying to make a tower for myself at this point, afterwhich my buddy wants me to make one for him. I'd have to see how the final product turns out before I thought of charging anyone for it. After that it really comes down to cost and time. _________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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sanddragon2004 Outlaw
Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 152 City: San Jose
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Posted: Jul 22, 2005 11:39 am Post subject: |
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i would for sure be interested in the tower mounts? I have been toying with the idea of fabricating them myself, or maybe at least building all the mounts for them. _________________ sport nautique |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Aug 05, 2005 5:18 am Post subject: |
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Here's an update: Figures that the one that had to break did so on the last bend. That piece is being rebent and should be ready to go this week. I need to pick up some 1/4" aluminum plate for the bases before anything. Hopefully next weekend I'll be fitting everything up on the boat. Shouldn't take me more than a week after that to be done. _________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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JHerb42 Outlaw
Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 180 City: Columbus
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Posted: Aug 05, 2005 6:46 am Post subject: |
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Looks great, wish I had the shop and tools to do that. |
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sanddragon2004 Outlaw
Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 152 City: San Jose
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Posted: Aug 05, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: |
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are those mandrel bent? _________________ sport nautique |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Aug 05, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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Couldn't tell ya as Santa Fe bending did it. If you're looking for a good bender they're some of the best/cheapest in the biz. My company has been using them for years.
Santa Fe Bending
16220 Illinois Ave
Paramount, Ca
(562) 633-5197
Talk to Dennis or Frank _________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Aug 12, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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Got all the metal in from the benders, welded the feet into the lower hoops. Stuck everything together via duct tape to see how it would look. That rear hoop is gonna have a few inches taken off so that the top of the tower is parallel to the boat rails. I'm making the mounts for the boat now so hopefully I'll get to stick something onto the boat tonight.
_________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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Vampyre Addict
Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 622 City: Ooltewah, TN
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Posted: Aug 17, 2005 10:27 am Post subject: |
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Looks good! _________________ Be an organ donor! My father is alive today because of kind souls that donate life... |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Aug 21, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Might not look much different but the upper portion is now actually bolted/welded to the lower portion instead of just being duct taped. Unfortunately work has been keeping me busy so I've only been able to get an hour/day in if I'm lucky.
_________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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danimal Newbie
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3
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Posted: Aug 24, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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if your interested I would like to buy 4 of the mounts that youi made on the lathe,also where didi you get the tubing from and what size is it? |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Aug 25, 2005 4:34 am Post subject: |
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I won't be turning out extra parts anytime soon. Tower's almost done but I've still got board racks, speaker enclosures, etc. to make and then a whole 'nother tower for my buddy. I used 2" OD x .125" wall 6063 tubing. Most I had at my work so I only needed to buy one 20 foot piece. I got it from Santa Fe Bending - number and address listed above.
Stupid me forgot the camera tonight but I got the tower mounted onto the boat via duct tape. Tacked all 4 corners down, chopped the uppers to the right length, and got a pretty good idea of how this thing is gonna look. I decided to keep the rear hoop a little long and not have the top of the tower parallel to the boat rails. I started thinking about how a boat goes nose up when you pull a rider out. Seemed like a good idea to keep a little angle forward. Its tall enough that I can just barely reach the towpoint and I'm 6' tall. Tomorrow night I'll be notching the tubing for the braces on the uppers and tacking those in as well as make a few braces for the feet. Hopefully I'll get far enough along to pull the whole thing back off and finish welding everything. After that I just gotta mount the tow point and its ready for testing this Sunday. _________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Pic from last night:
Stupid tower looks better than the boat does. Oh well...its a work in progress. _________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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super4011 Criminal
Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 65 City: puerto ordaz venezuela
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 7:28 am Post subject: |
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wow thats grate...im planing to do mine for my glastron. the bad thing is that here where i live nobody wakeboards and they dont know anything obout towers. but ill trie to do my best _________________ --imposible is nothing-- |
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410fortune Soul Rider
Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 314 City: Morrison
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 7:32 am Post subject: |
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BITCHIN work man. |
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super4011 Criminal
Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 65 City: puerto ordaz venezuela
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 11:40 am Post subject: |
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how tall is it? _________________ --imposible is nothing-- |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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about 8 feet, it looks kinda small in that pic for some reason. Here's another angle, I hope everyone enjoys my pimped out gold interior:
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super4011 Criminal
Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 65 City: puerto ordaz venezuela
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Posted: Aug 26, 2005 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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send i pic when you are using it _________________ --imposible is nothing-- |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Sep 06, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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Well its basically done. A few minor tweaks but its 100% useable - I'd be testing it out today but don't have a 3rd. Now I just have to test it out and make sure everything's solid, then I get to scotch-brite the hell out of it and its off to the powdercoater's. Turned into alot bigger project than I thought it would be, but it does look nice. Hopefully it works as good as it looks. BTW I'm in for $300 at this point. Oh yeah and I know the boat ain't much to look at. I bought it for a project for $3500 a few months ago, you're just seeing it at its (very) early stages.
_________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!"
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GeniusBlock Criminal
Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 78
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Posted: Sep 06, 2005 8:46 am Post subject: |
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Suuuuuhwweeet. |
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PeeDeeRider Criminal
Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 77
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Posted: Sep 07, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice... what are you planning on doing to the boat. My friend has a boat very similiar to it. |
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Wallrat Soul Rider
Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 328 City: Huntington Beach
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Posted: Sep 08, 2005 2:15 am Post subject: |
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-All the orange & grey exterior vinyl is coming off, dark blue & black going on instead.
-Interior is being completely torn out. Changing the layout to wraparound seating with a captain's chair. Going grey with navy blue accents. Also provisions for a subwoofer and making a sundeck that can convert to a couple extra seats.
-Installing ballast. Already have a couple sacs, now I just gotta wire/plumb the pumps I got so I don't have to throw a pump over the side.
-Fiberglass swim platform
-New bimini
-New dash/gauge cluster
-fiberglass tower enclosure for speakers and lights (single unit)
-board racks for the tower
-new ski locker door (old teak one looks like crap) _________________ A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will sit next to you saying, "man that was cool as f*ck!" |
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KurtInCincy Addict
Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 645 City: Cincinnati OH
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Posted: Sep 11, 2005 5:49 am Post subject: |
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Nice choice with the old Sea Ray. Those things hold their value great. Even better after you do all those improvements. _________________ "Do not be alarmed, Continue swimming Naked!" - Chief Wiggum |
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