The BAD AST Project - Faze II

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Yes sir! Gotta love home ownership!
We've been cleaning up all week after a tornado passed about 200 yards north of my place about 8:30 Tuesday nite... Close call. Had a few trees down and the power was out for most of the day Wednesday but no damage otherwise. A few houses north of us weren't so lucky. One lost a garage and three cars and another lost most of the roofing off his two barns and the siding off the end of one. Roofs and trees seemed to be the target for this F1... That was my week...



While all of that was going on I received delivery of the Air/hydraulic bottle jack I ordered. Didn't get to do anything with it till Saturday though. I got it mocked up in the mounting plates and lined it up with bender mounted to the stand.

I ended up moving the plate location by 3/4's of an inch or so. Glad I waited for the jack to weld them on.

You can see here how much farther I moved the mounts as compared to the layout lines from the plans.

Had to replace one of the bender arm spacers with a smaller diameter tube that will slide through the hole in the end of the jack stem.

I used 5/8 x .058 wall as I had it and the 1/2 in bolt will slide through it.

Once I wrapped up getting the jack connected I cleaned the stand up a little with a flap grinder and degreased it for paint. I used Rustoleum Hammered Silver.

These welds were still kinda warm when I painted the stand...

Doesn't look to bad for home brew...