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Old 11-05-2002, 08:39 PM
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OK fellas.

I'll be the first to admit that there's no such thing as "Bolt on" when it comes to a CR Cobra. The handiest tool in your toolbox is a die grinder, because EVERYTHING!!! needs a scosh more clearance. The next handiest tool is a tap and die set, both english, and metric.

And everyone needs an account at a welding shop for those one-off jobs that can't get done any other way.

And every 15 minute job takes at least two weekends. OK, don't get me started!

But there are solutions to these dippy this won't fit, and that won't fit problems. The tougher ones are "This just doesn't make sense", and you start making sketches to take to the welding shop.

And I'll be the first to admit that 80% of my build time was spent procrastinating how a subassembly should fit and work based on 30 or so years working on similar applications.

So I make like this simple bracket as no big deal. But to some of you, it is!

Bottom line. That's what were here for. This forum. To take what should be a dippy little what fits what, where do I get it, and what do I have to do to it after I get it to make it fit, and/or work.

If I have a "been there - done that", I'll share it. I hate to see people waste money on things that don't fit, or work.

If I have a "I'm there now, haven't done that yet, have you?" Is there a consensus? I'll ask. There's no such thing as a stupid question. And its the dip****ty little details that make or break the finished product.
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