Manufacturing Possibilities

03/08/2018

Building e bikes and doing conversions. Will be making my own brand of bikes this year if everything pans out. This motor is 3000 watts. Has more torque than a Honda CBR 600 but tops out at 4hp. This size tire should do 45ish, a 27" tire is around 55-60mph ish. Not a toy.

I found a supplier who is on the ball, responds to my questions imediately, and makes a quality product. 100amp speed controller. Fully programmable, w/regenerative braking, etc etc.. Darrell is building the battery pack now. The frame is a chopper design (adult size).

We do have a legal(max rating without motorcycle endorsement) 750 watt hub motor on the chopper now for test rides. It's actually pretty impressive itself. The new pack will have a 600 mile range. 150 mile range uphill with a 500 pound load.

We are still in the testing phase for building or own product, but can convert what ever bike you already own as well. How much range do you need? 12 miles? 600 miles? We can build you a battery pack to fit your needs.

09/07/2017

Bad mojo vs good mojo. 50 degree drop from inlet to outlet now. That little j tube pipe was transmitting so much heat, it cooked the check valve. Not as cool as the intercooler on the other compressor, but way better anyhow. Need to solder one more brace to the frame or head bolt and I am done. I was going to pipe it into/thru a mini fridge and throw an accumulator and auto drain on it, but I need it going now. Maybe next week. 😉

02/07/2017

Machining plastic (Delrin) today.

12/16/2016

Still at it. Doing the double shift today/tonight.

12/15/2016

A big bolt with a coarse thread....

07/21/2016

Life hack for machinist. Old insert boxes make great mixing boards for epoxy. Even has built in spatula...

07/13/2016

Our latest listing on Ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331908077485?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

1000 in Sporting Goods, Fishing, Terminal Tackle

07/08/2016

An engraving tool I made while working at a day job. Before I made this tool, we would chip two or three carbide engravers per run of parts. After I made this tool, 6 years later, the same carbide engraver was still being used. We were putting part numbers on airplane lug nuts which were made from a fairly hard material and were "squished" so to lock on the stud during installation. This squashed nut was pretty out of round for a rigidly mounted carbide engraver. A similar spring loaded tool in a catalog was going for just under $400 dollars and was large and awkward looking, and there was no way it would clear the back of the machine in the turret of the lathe. So I made one from scrap materials and some spare springs in a couple hours, while I was running parts on two different machines...
It fits in an ER-16 collet and you can rotate the turret all the way around in a lathe on not crash it(this tool) into the back of the cabinet. I try to make my own tooling whenever possible/time permitting. This was made from some "scrap" 303 stainless steel bar ends that were laying around. I grabbed a short screw, a set screw, and a spring out of a misc spare parts tooling box. The "extra" springs are for harder or softer material. Like switching from plastic to a hardened 17-4 stainless steel. I made it while on the companies clock, so I left it behind. I may redesign/improve this and produce for market. There are infinite things to make, but what will actually sell?! This is not exactly a high demand item. Next...

What idea would you like to manufacture and market? Let us build it and see if they come.

07/08/2016

Turning a pin +/-.0003 with a 2-56 tapped hole.

07/02/2016

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-16ths-18-S-T-I-Standard-thread-insert-bolt-/331898111220?

1000 in Business & Industrial, MRO & Industrial Supply, Fasteners & Hardware

06/28/2016

We are still offering a VERY low 65 an hour for high end work for Darrington residents and outlying areas. 85 an hour non-local. I still do quickie (not requiring special tooling) in and out stuff for around 45-55 an hour. For example if you need a simple shaft turned down. or a bolt hole pattern put in something, etc... That's half the cost of most aerospace shops...

Inventors also welcome. If you have a product you would like to design, manufacture and sell, we would like to help you bring that to market. We can draw it up in CAD/CAM and go from there. I have resources that can cast some pretty intricate things in large or small quantities, or scale. Including titanium. They have a titanium vacuum melt furnace and heat treat facility in house. This is Seacast Inc located in Marysville, WA.

06/20/2016

Today I am putting a square plug (hex actually) in a round hole, 4 parts at a time. I throttled back the coolant for the video. Tool order. 1 spot drill, 2 drill (9.7mm), 3 broach, 4 .375 drill to pick out the burrs. I would used taller jaws, but I need to order Jaw material. No problems after thousands of parts, so meh... oh ya, this is mild steel.