Today, I used my harbor freight bench top lathe to make radiator mounts! Learning basic machining has been pretty rad. I used a special bit to make a center mark in the 3/4 bar stock. Then I drilled it 1 1/2" deep and tapped the hole 1/4 × 20. I even machined a little shoulder at the top to keep the peice from falling all the way through the crossmember while I welded. After giving it a low build tig weld, the radiator is officially mounted 🤘. I'm starting to get a bunch of ideas of how this to

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