InstantForum.NET v4.1.4Boston BMW Chapter Forumhttp://www.boston-bmwcca.org/InstantForum/BostonForum@boston-bmwcca.orgMon, 05 Jan 2009 21:53:27 GMT20http://www.boston-bmwcca.org/InstantForum/Topic128-3-1.aspxHello fellow BMWCCA-Boston friends!<br><br>I don't think to visit here often enough (I'm most often on another non-BMWCCA site), but thought to do so after helping a guy. I figured this place is where the people I can help most easily might be. I'm a machinist by trade (or, I can make a face like one), and my Dad is a retired toolmaker. I helped him get a nice medium-sized lathe and a milling machine over the past few years, and we enjoy doing small jobs for people. <br><br>I had recently helped a fellow BMW owner who wanted to modify some E34 wheels to put them on his E39. It was fairly simple to bore out the hubs, and made him happy. I have also made aluminum hub-centric rings to "go the other way" for some GTO owners who wanted to put the 72.5mm BMW wheels on their 69.5mm GTO hubs.<br><br>If you have any machining-related issues, let me know. If it's not the right job for our manual machines, I can refer you to friends I have with CNC machines (though their rates would have to be much higher, naturally.) We also have an arbor press, so we might be willing to tool-up for doing bushing replacements, things like that. I don't want to pull business away from established, valued BMWCCA friends who may be already helping, but if what we can do makes sense for [i]you[/i], let me know. We're in central MA, and can meet up within an hour's drive.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Ken M.<br><br>[email]kp.mitchell@verizon.net[/email]Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:45:13 GMTKenM10759