Tony
Staff member
So I needed a starter shaft for the new starter on the T-Maxx and unfortunately, the Align starter is larger than the one on the truck. This one needs to be 7/32's and because of placement, it had to have a ball end on it. I tried making one and makign my own ball end, but it just rounded because it didn't have enough meat on it. So I hunted and finally found a ball end allen wrench.
Because of the placement, I really need this thing to extent out past the tires (it's going in through the left side, between the shock and fuel tank and just above the tire. And with this new allen driver plus the old one, I can make a longer one. I just have to hot glue them together (welder talk for MIG)
I figured this thing only needs 3 tacks to hold and I didn't want to check my gloves for spiders so I just went with it. And before you ask, yes, I was wearing a hood! My eyes are bad enough lol. First thing I did, since I was not wearing gloves is tack the straight driver to the piece of angle I was using to center the two. That went well. Now it was time to push the new one to the old one and make them one. I pulled the trigger and layed down a bugger blob on the two pieces, and then it hit me, I just caught a large piece of slag between my index and middle finger. Yea, that friggin hurt.
It was only a split second, but holy hell it hurt. Now I have black skin where it caught it. Thankfully it is not that large lol. But I will be putting a pair of pig skin gloves on my welding cart for small odd jobs like this. Regular jobs I will use my large stick gloves which I can grab hot pieces with.
Moral of the story, Wear some kind of glove or you will try to fuse both of your fingers together with iron lmao.
Because of the placement, I really need this thing to extent out past the tires (it's going in through the left side, between the shock and fuel tank and just above the tire. And with this new allen driver plus the old one, I can make a longer one. I just have to hot glue them together (welder talk for MIG)
I figured this thing only needs 3 tacks to hold and I didn't want to check my gloves for spiders so I just went with it. And before you ask, yes, I was wearing a hood! My eyes are bad enough lol. First thing I did, since I was not wearing gloves is tack the straight driver to the piece of angle I was using to center the two. That went well. Now it was time to push the new one to the old one and make them one. I pulled the trigger and layed down a bugger blob on the two pieces, and then it hit me, I just caught a large piece of slag between my index and middle finger. Yea, that friggin hurt.
It was only a split second, but holy hell it hurt. Now I have black skin where it caught it. Thankfully it is not that large lol. But I will be putting a pair of pig skin gloves on my welding cart for small odd jobs like this. Regular jobs I will use my large stick gloves which I can grab hot pieces with.
Moral of the story, Wear some kind of glove or you will try to fuse both of your fingers together with iron lmao.
