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jknight15

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Evening all

Right I'm looking into building a marker (not from scratch material but seperate parts put together) as I will be applying to airlines next year for maintenance experience and want to have another technical recreational project on my CV along with the PC I built complete with full watercooling. Hopefully I will be able to create a log as I go along putting it together.

How easy would it be to put together say a shocker sft? They seem pretty cheap for parts and I kind of like them (nxt is bum mud).

Any info would be good :)
 
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I think the custom trend for using shocker parts is to build a shego. Body of a shocker with frame of an ego. Lot's of tutorials on how to set them up from scratch.

Shocker parts are cheap and quite a few bits knocking about. Pm Breakawaybp as he has a few parts for sale, and you might be able to ask him as he built a shocker up.
 
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seany boy said:
I think the custom trend for using shocker parts is to build a shego. Body of a shocker with frame of an ego. Lot's of tutorials on how to set them up from scratch.

Shocker parts are cheap and quite a few bits knocking about. Pm Breakawaybp as he has a few parts for sale, and you might be able to ask him as he built a shocker up.
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Don't shego's involve a bit of grinding to get the body and frame to meet properly?

Not keen on the idea of that as I would just prefer to get individual parts and build a shocker up.
 
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i did build a shocker but i wasnt successful in getting all the parts - mainly cos i couldnt be arsed in the end.

its expensive, far more so than buying a whole shocker!

if i were you id buy a shocker, take it apart and build it back up!:)

but seriously, an sft is nice and easy, and if you get stuck there is www.zdspb.com - andy is like the king of the universe on shocker knowledge.

the main bugger i found was the screw kit, i couldn't be bothered to buy a set, and eye's couldnt find any of them. solenoids can be a bugger as well. the odd one might come up but otherwise you will have to buy new which will set you back around £80 or something.
 
jknight15

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Mr.Longbeard said:
Not knocking you and more power to ya for having a go. :)

But what you're suggesting is no more impressive than building Ikea furniture :eek: , or Lego Technics.

If you're going to use it on a CV it's got to be note worthy, assembling a collection of parts which are all manufactured to be assembled with each other isn't, it's no more than stripping a gat down to clean it and reassemble it when you're done.

See if you can dig up Tenderings thread and look at his pictures, by the looks of it he's got no more than a junior hacksaw and a pillar drill, no 3d cnc milling machines or freekin laser lathes needed.

Sorry to dump on your ideas man, feel free to ignore (quite a lot do :p ) but I do read CV's every week and help select staff a couple of times a year :(
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Thanks for the info :)

I suppose I could go for the improvisation route which could mean modification to any of the parts

Mite give a shego a looking :)
 
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