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PostSubject: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSat Jan 04, 2014 9:10 pm

BKC's Craftsman Build 00512 Plans Have Changed Since the Pic So Pay No Mind To It. It is being built by www.facebook.com/BKC93 its a Ford 8N Front End & Firestone rear Fenders going on a custom frame gonna be stretched & will have a fully functioning deck gonna Have An 12.5HP Kohler & The Exhaust Is Gonna Come Through The Hood Where The radiator Cap Was & gonna have custom grooved tires & probally a custom fiberglass seat & Makin My Own Rearend Its A Direct Drive & Locked & In A Normal Case & thinkin Dark Ford Gray & Maybe Some White & Red THANKS


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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Jan 05, 2014 8:30 am

Ahh- better! Welcome to ATLTF, and the Build-Off!
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Jan 05, 2014 9:22 am

Happy welding i wish i could weld good enough to weld my own frame. Good luck Very Happy
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Jan 05, 2014 9:28 am

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Happy welding i wish i could weld good enough to weld my own frame. Good luck Very Happy

no one started out as a good welder, we all had to learn somehow, just keep practicing
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Jan 05, 2014 9:48 am

Yea im still practicing lol ill get there eventually
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Jan 05, 2014 1:33 pm

I think it helps allot if u have welder and for 100$ ill build u the same frame im usin
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Jan 05, 2014 1:35 pm

I meant If u have a good welder
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Jan 05, 2014 1:50 pm

richie thomas wrote:
Craftsman1998 wrote:
Happy welding i wish i could weld good enough to weld my own frame. Good luck Very Happy

no one started out as a good welder, we all had to learn somehow, just keep practicing
Nope not me Very Happy When I was 8, first attempt it was a perfect mig bead. LOL JK.. Took me about 2 years (10 years old) To get decent waves in my bead lol That was with little to no instruction after my pap showed me how to weld.
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Jan 05, 2014 1:56 pm

My dad showed/showing me it definatly worth learning
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Jan 05, 2014 2:06 pm

psss i still dont know how to weld but ive only had to weld once before that was a stick welder lol so well see how my welds go on my build lol
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeMon Jan 06, 2014 1:24 pm

When it warms up but ill get started on it get started on it
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeTue Jan 07, 2014 1:27 pm

I cant update on my tablet so ill just comment i wont promise any of it but in gonna try and put a set of coil overs on the front axle and. Some srearend on the rearend and gonna see about modifing a old rusted but rearend nothn to lose on it
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeTue Jan 07, 2014 1:29 pm

Springs on the rearend dumb autocorrect
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PostSubject: rear end   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeTue Jan 28, 2014 3:46 pm

Got Started On The Rearend Yesterday I Just Gotta Weld It Maybe Tomorrow Its To Cold Today Im Curious To See How It Works It Was rusted Up So Aint Loosing Anything & Hoping It Makes It Kinda Fast It Should be
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PostSubject: update   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeWed Feb 05, 2014 7:53 pm

got the rearend welded & cut a stuck wheel off an axle so just got to put it together tomorrow & got a set of back wheels from a scrap yard for 40$ tires were about new & got a 11.5hp briggs & 12.5hp kohler so one of them will be the motor that goes on it each motor was 20$ i prolly wont have time tomorrow but i'd like to get the rearend mounted & maybe the front axle to like to see it as a roller
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeWed Feb 05, 2014 10:29 pm

I cant help but notice your mower looks brand new lol kinda like when someone gets a new truck and puts like another 20 grand into it lol I bet its gonna look good Very Happy
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeThu Feb 06, 2014 4:57 pm

thanks i hope it does But its like an early 2000's but it was garage kept all its life the motor went bad & i got it for free from a neighbor
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeThu Feb 06, 2014 6:41 pm

i think im about 50$ into right now should be around 200$ done hopefully
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PostSubject: Update   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSat Feb 08, 2014 4:23 pm

I Got the old frame cut i took the top of the frame off to sit on my new frame just to make it easy to hook everything up
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSat Feb 08, 2014 5:25 pm

need progress pics!
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSat Feb 08, 2014 5:58 pm

sounds good but we need pics!
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PostSubject: Re: BKC's Craftsman Build   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSat Feb 08, 2014 6:24 pm

Yes we need pictues
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PostSubject: pics   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Feb 09, 2014 5:16 pm

ill go get u some
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PostSubject: Update Pics ;)   BKC's Craftsman Build Icon_minitimeSun Feb 09, 2014 6:13 pm

heres pics of the frame i got the top on it today & pics of the rearend got to lock the black gear & the 12.5hp kohler im gonna use as long as it runs got it for 20$ at a scrap yard & the back tires i got for it from the same scrap yard for 40$ so right now i'm at about 60$ & if my rearend dont work i got an automatic for 15$ i'll use https://i.servimg.com/u/f57/18/68/45/50/003_310.jpg https://i.servimg.com/u/f57/18/68/45/50/004_110.jpg https://i.servimg.com/u/f57/18/68/45/50/005_110.jpg https://i.servimg.com/u/f57/18/68/45/50/00710.jpg https://i.servimg.com/u/f57/18/68/45/50/00810.jpg https://i.servimg.com/u/f57/18/68/45/50/00910.jpg
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