What Did You Get Up To Today?

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Years ago I made my HL honey badger take ab MK box with 8:1 DSG and a 30k warhead… with an m170.
I did a nice 330fps 46rps. Never used it much and needed the gearbox for someone else so they got it, and it had an LDX expert clone stuck in it with a basic 13:1 m199 sorta 30rps job.

Well… I want to redo that project, and I found a new home for that ldx expert clone!

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Remember this nightmare? Lol

I did something for me today!
Double snell box out, LDX in!

Now sporting a t238 basic, with all the goodies from the double smell gearbox.

Just need to sort out a way to stop the spring retainer diving around an I’ll be able to see how it went.

Then rebuild the honey badger!

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Might be time for the old trick of a 10c piece bolted into the retainer through the back of the gearbox!
Especially as you ain’t running no Buttstock!:ok_hand::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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It has a folding triangle stock… And there is very little room.
Some careful grinding a bolt head, or hacking up the area behind the retainer- or combination is in order.

The HL Honey Badger is almost rebuilt. Just gotta sort the tpiece and barrel out.
MK V2m gearbox, DSG gears, M160, T238 EXP Bluetooth ETU, but the motor is currently a “frankentorque” slow motor so ONLY 35rps. I do have another motor that might be a bit quicker to try, another frankentorque thing. Be nice with a brushless… but jamming it together with only parts from my stuff was cheaper!

Best of all, whole thing almost completely built in the morning and just waiting for tpiece epoxy and the 3dprinted spacer adaptor thingy to cure till tomorrow!

I spose I will take the wife out for lunch so I didn’t just blaster stuff on valentines day lol

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A romantic lunch followed up with a field skirmish with her to test the old girl out, to which I’m referring to the Gelblaster by the way!:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
A win/win way of ending the perfect day!

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Fair warning : this ain’t about a gel blaster… :wink:

Finally finished up an off-brand guitar build today, aiming for a Tony Iommi SG tribute build for myself.

Bought the Taglewood from an old boy in a dark hallway in Teneriffe, couldn’t test play it, couldn’t see it properly, did everything I advise others not to do… :rofl:

At home, in the cold light of day, I was looking at a guitar that needed a complete headstock refinish to hide a particularly horrendous superglue finish repair, needed a complete rewire, machine head replacement and a fair bit of body work to hide finish cracks, etc. Moral of the story is, never buy a guitar you can’t test play, always detune and retune to check machine heads, don’t visually inspect it in a room darker than Satan’s arsehole and walk away if you’re not 100% happy with the finish. :rofl:

Lucky for me I have spare parts out the wahzoo and guitar tech work is my main passion, so a significant number of hours of labour and a few replacement bits and bobs later, it came out far better than it had a right to.

Headstock painted and refinished, rooted Kluson style machine heads replaced with Gotoh Grover style items.

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Rewired, finish cracks and flaws addressed and 95% invisible, relocated the front strap button to the upper bout to correct the infamous SG neck dive issue.

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Even Angus Young’s SG is neck heavy and dives :rofl:

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The Entwhistle Neodynium magnets in the 'buckers give it a killer tone, melts faces nicely with distortion…

Brutal… Sabbath riffs for days. Really happy with it.:sunglasses::+1:

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Nice work mate, the SG is a good shape imo.
My Epiphone SG neck dives like a champ too… not a bug but a feature of the design!
Good to see another axe revived to better than it came from the factory too :slight_smile:

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Picked up an EnC HK416D. Older LDX version.
Cheap. Not working, no mag or motor… testing with a motor didn’t get power to mag either.

Someone attempted to run 13:1s. Badly short stroked with stock LDX everything else. Guessing it didn’t go well!
On closer inspection all the wires were munted, covered in electrical tape but crushed in many spots…

Cleaned up the short stroking, new trigger block and full rewire. New piston and head, cylinder, cylinder head, nozzle, m110 spring, bevel gear, solid bushes hopup barrel, and a chihai “super motor” I had laying about.

No seal and the tappet plate was binding so a quick shave in some spots now it works sweet!

Now doing 320-330fps with 3 teeth off, at a handsome almost 30rps.

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Have a sight coming today hopefully to round out the build.

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Beautiful work as always mate!
I reckon you need your own Guitar Build thread on here to share your handiwork and knowledge with everyone here. :sunglasses:

Definitely gotta talk with my Daughter about sending you one of her favourite guitars for a bit of magic treatment if you’re keen on some contract work? :grin:

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Working on guitars always takes me to my happy place, Doc… so yeah, if you got it over to QLD I’d be happy to give it “the treatment” free of labour charges. :rofl:

Have to say though, it would probably fly over about two hundred closer guitar techs on the way here… :laughing:

The end goal is to set up a workshop to make scratch built customs. But a lot of equipment needed for that means no time soon… and not having a reputation in the industry would mean I’d never make much of a quid, but it’s a damn fine way to fill the day in your retirement. :wink:

Still, happy with just tech work for now. :+1:

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Cheers mate.
Yeah it might fly over a few hundred other guitar techs, even many who she knows in her Fremantle Music scene, BUT I only trust one person who’s work that I’ve been watching, so a long distance journey is definitely my choice!

Gotta make some beer money too mate, not just paying for parts!

Won’t be happening straight away though, as will have to catch up with her and work on the timing and logistics with you prior to booking a spot on your bench.

Maybe you can hit up @RokSolid for some workspace, I hear that he’s got a nice new bench! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Back from the big smoke. What a nut house that has become, glad I moved out of there years ago. Took an hour an 40 to get from Noarlunga to north. Roadworks everywhere being the main problem, throw some idiots in the mix and it’s a jamomatic off peak. Saw a few close calls merging for roadworks, a 4wd drove up the curb because he didn’t let the semi in and the semi was coming in regardless :joy:

Thanks for the book @Friendly_Fire had a quick look, right up my alley. Will get in to it in near future :+1:

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Wasn’t me I swear :joy:

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You would have done it all ready :rofl:. The North south corridor upgrade has been going on for over 30 years. Supposed to be finished in 2015 but now looks like 2031.

They are starting on the tunnel sections now to go underneath. Que collapsing buildings anytime now :joy:

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Whilst I appreciate the sentiment, I just do the traffic management…

The duration of the works falls on the client, and their labouring contractors.

Whilst I pride myself on ensuring my worksites are setup and packed up safely, compliantly and in a timely manner, the works being undertaken are out of my hands unfortunately.

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Watching the Sun go down… with a :beer:

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Sorry mate, but that’s MY sun going down a couple of hours later whilst enjoying a Bush Chook or seven!:beers:

You guys are already in the Fart Sack many hours before the sun sets here!:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Nope, your just slow :rofl: :+1:

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As long as it hasn’t come up before I get home from work I’m happy :grin:

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Who cares I’ve been doing midnight burners to avoid the UV’s and still get shit done. While people and news complain ahh it’s too hot.

There is always a way around it. 10pm through to midday or about that seeing as I am the boss. :wink:

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If only I could whippa snip n mow at night, then I wouldn’t get stuck in late Arvo heat like I did the other day :roll_eyes:

The heat hits different when you’ve worked nights as long as I have so I definitely don’t blame you for getting as much done as you can in the moonlight