WJCO
Meme King
Looks great. It will pass code. I like the engineering so you didn't have to level the ground.
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OverlanderJK
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Are you cutting a hole in the roof of your house to put it in?
CalSgt
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kevman65
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Great score! Did you get bits and tooling with it?
Spazbyt
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Oh no, there is no way that's fitting in my house. I'm taking it to my shop where I can pretend it's for "work".
I'm a little bummed it's not an actual Bridgeport brand but from what I can gather it's a well made Taiwan clone and there are still replacement parts available.
Oh yeah, plus a bunch of random stuff, router bits, drills, and reams.
CalSgt
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Wow... All the extra tooling really makes that a worthwhile purchase
Spazbyt
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A lot of it needs to be resharpened but thats alot better than buying new. So crazy story, I originally thought it was all standard end mill tools but on further inspection, I realized it is mostly tapered tools. The company that I bought it from made forms and patterns for vacuum-forming plastic parts so they would use tapered tools to get the proper draft angle on their parts. It's actually kind of sad. The company had been in business for over 75 years. Unfortunately, when the owner died the son immediately closed up shop and left all the equipment in the building to rot. They had some cool old school tools, like what has to be the world's first electric sander.
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kevman65
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Can't remember what it's called, but there is a socket that has internal edges in a fan shape that is designed to grab onto rounded nuts.
WJCO
Meme King
If I can't get a hex socket on it, I've always just used vice grips.
Jsouder53
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Thanks, I’ll see if Napa has anything like that.
Unfortunately, the vice grips wouldn’t really reach down into that area and allow me to get leverage.
Cousin Clyde
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Jsouder53
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Good thinking, I have a dremel with a cutting wheel! My grinder might not fit
kevman65
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Cousin Clyde
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Lol, sorry, I couldn’t resist suggesting a cutoff wheel. Yea it would definitely be overkill.
Running joke in the shop is use a cutoff wheel or a torch for all applications.
Jsouder53
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Oh! That’s completely different than I was thinking.
Haha no worries, it might be my last try
Speedy_RCW
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I built this to carry a double stroller behind the JK several years ago since it takes up so damn much cargo room. Now that we have to put a kid in the 3rd row of my wife’s rig, we need more space on road trips. Had to put an offset in the receiver stock so it wouldn’t drag the ground leaving steep parking lots and whatnot. Found an old hitch in the garage to cut up. No clearance issues now. 
TrailHunter
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Nice Rumble Seat. Is it legal to put the kid in it? Asking for a friend.I built this to carry a double stroller behind the JK several years ago since it takes up so damn much cargo room. Now that we have to put a kid in the 3rd row of my wife’s rig, we need more space on road trips. Had to put an offset in the receiver stock so it wouldn’t drag the ground leaving steep parking lots and whatnot. Found an old hitch in the garage to cut up. No clearance issues now.
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