Craftsman GT3000 "MUTT" Part I

Actually I had to screw around with an insert and regrind the threading tool lol, HSS isn't hardly even used out in the real world anymore!

Haha because if this was HSS I would be like but nevertheless it's still amazing machining.

When they were moving over to the new trade school they threw out a bunch of stuff, lot of random scrap and HSS and whatnot. Thought about grinding a piece of HSS into a broach or something, would be cool to be able to make square holes.

RichieRichOverdrive wrote:

Actually I had to screw around with an insert and regrind the threading tool lol, HSS isn't hardly even used out in the real world anymore!

Perhaps, but for a home shop, or special shapes and whatnot, it is essential. I am looking for another bench grinder so I can put coarse, and fine wheels on just for HSS.


Its cool to see some machine work being done, even if you cheated.

I freaking love machining. I hope to get a career as some sort of machinist someday.

Yeah from what I've seen you do that's what I think you need to pursue.  The most money I ever made in one year I made while working overtime at a machine shop running a giant Mazak vertical mill that that 30"x102"x29" travel!  That job had benefits too.  Yeah monster 50 taper machine.

TBH that's what I would like to do as well. Probably start off with the post secondary 1 year welding program that is offered in town for very cheap.

haha sorry for threadjacking lol. I thought this was the talk about anything thread.

I bet there's no Slime in them tires eh? Haha. The rack should be cool for sure.

AllisKidD21 wrote:

I bet there's no Slime in them tires eh? Haha. The rack should be cool for sure.

Hardy. Har. Har.




If I ever catch any of you using tire slime, I will find you and I'll make you drink it! AAAAGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!

They're so...small! And soft! heh...never had those problems before

Think you’ll use em over the others or is this just playing around? Maybe take both to haspin, if these are soft then they’re probably better on rocks.


...yeah I bet you haven’t lol

If I can somehow go I'll bring both lol.

Had to do a lot of messing around, the left ITP has like 3 dry rot cracks in the sidewall, not worth the effort to (attempt to) patch, so I took the tube out of my left Exec and put a tubeless valvestem in(wanted to do that anyways), and put the tube in the ITP. After all was said and done, nothing leaked, so that's cool.

Sooo...this is about where this will be...


Had to think about this one for a bit.


Think I'll have it hinged so I could swing it up like this when I wanna fuel up (separate from the seat hinge). Thoughts?


Oh, and I threw this on. Looks really dumb in the middle like that, but the hole was already there, all I had to do was hook up the wires.


Illuminati confirmed?


Best 2/3...heh. It's decent I guess. Still mad at myself for breaking that right light.


Pretty bright...I like it.


Thinking on stealing some fender flares to put on too, we'll see.

Oh, and I may or may not have fried the stator when my slightly("out of it") self hooked up the battery backwards. She let some smoke out from under the flywheel, and I noticed the diodes got a bit warm too. I'll hook the meter up to it and test if it still works eventually. If it doesn't I have another I can steal to put on.

Wow look at this series of events.  Are these parts what you traded your murray for?  The rack looks cool on there.  I like the idea of making it hinged separately from the seat so you still flip it up and have easy access to the gas tank.  If it's attached the seat that might be too much weight for your seat springs and affect your ride quality.  Looks like you'll have to cut the rack and re-work it a little bit so your shifter will travel all the way back and forth.  The one LED light looks different, but it's functional, there's a window in your bumper for it, and it's very well protected.  I think one of those small light bars would look cooler in that same spot though, but what's the difference? You fried your charging system anyway lol.  Those mud lites look like a decent set of spare tires on rims to have laying around.

That rack should come in handy for sure, and it'll be kinda cool to have in on hinges. Just don't flip it up with a bunch of stuff still on it, hahaha.

Yeah, I traded the murray for all this. I don't think it was too bad of a deal.

Eventually I hope to have one or both of the light bars mounted on the front, and maybe the one round one as a back up light? We'll see I guess. That LED just kinda naturally wanted to go there so I put it there. And errrr, I just probably dechooched the charging system.

From what I can tell, the rack will have to be cut in one place to fit the shifter. No big deal. Although I'll probably find a way to make a big deal out of it. And Allis, I'll probably do it anyways after saying I'm not gonna haha. I don't really want to have anything loose on there, It'll all be in containers held down with bungee cords.

Mutt looking good Rich! Rear rack is a good idea, should be useful for carrying stuff.

BUT what about the exicutioners?????? oh well itp mud lites do pretty good for various applications.

I'll just put em back on when I decide i dont like the itps

So this is nice. Oh well.

DUCT TAPE TO THE RESCUE!!!

Ouch. That's cast iron isnt it. Mabye you could get some cast rod to weld it back up

It's already been welded lol. Dont think it was with high nickel rod either.

Started on my hinges.

Man I wanna get outside and build crap so bad after seeing all these builds progressing

I feel that, but here I am stuck in a condo in Florida lol