Meanwhile, back at the lathe.........

[Art Anderson]

...I just got done rebuilding my old (1981 Vintage), after the solid state AC speed control died. Sherline in the meantime has replaced their AC motor and speed control with a DC unit, with constant torque DC motor (tremendous improvement!).

A project I've hankered after for years is to do a Marmon-Herrington AWD conversion for the 1935-48 Ford passenger car/pickup/panel delivery. Basically, M-H modified Ford rear axles by lengthening one axle shaft & housing, then shortening the other, so that when flopped upside down, the torque tube would run alongside the right side of the engine, to a transfer case (M-H's own design, meant to clear the X member in the frame), using a shortened driveshaft & torque tube. The transverse front spring was replaced by a pair of semi-eliptic leaf springs, mounted parallel, at the outside of the frame rails, and a new rear spring made, with much greater lift.

I turned the parts seen here from clear acrylic plastic bar stock, drilled to accept 1/16" brass rod for locating pins:

Art

[Jairus]

My truck wheels are next... right?

Nice axle by the way!

[LDO]

Hey Art-

Your rear end looks nice.

[Jairus]

Ahhhh.... that is the front axle Lee.

Just a little creepy.

[Harry P.]

...I just got done rebuilding my old (1981 Vintage), after the solid state AC speed control died. Sherline in the meantime has replaced their AC motor and speed control with a DC unit, with constant torque DC motor (tremendous improvement!).

A project I've hankered after for years is to do a Marmon-Herrington AWD conversion for the 1935-48 Ford passenger car/pickup/panel delivery. Basically, M-H modified Ford rear axles by lengthening one axle shaft & housing, then shortening the other, so that when flopped upside down, the torque tube would run alongside the right side of the engine, to a transfer case (M-H's own design, meant to clear the X member in the frame), using a shortened driveshaft & torque tube. The transverse front spring was replaced by a pair of semi-eliptic leaf springs, mounted parallel, at the outside of the frame rails, and a new rear spring made, with much greater lift.

I turned the parts seen here from clear acrylic plastic bar stock, drilled to accept 1/16" brass rod for locating pins:

Art

And the difference between photo 1 and photo 2 is... ???

[Jairus]

YOU can't tell!

[Abell82]

The second pic was of the axle assembled, but now?