I was sat in the drivers seat the other night and realised i couldn't reach the dash when strapped in, I needed the important switches closer to me.
I solved this with a glassfibre box which was moulded off a washing sachet container.
I aim to mount this with some stainless tube between the seats and run the wiring through the tube so its hidden.
I thought a nice finned top plate to hold the switches might be nice, thickest bit of aluminium plate i had was 1/2" so a quick call to my mate Allan and he had some 3/4", He also kindly offered to mill the slots in it to save me some time.
First the 3/4" aluminium plate was cut.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...LLYS/ally1.jpg
Next it was marked out and drilled and counterbored.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...LLYS/ally2.jpg
Next the grooves were ball milled into the plate.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...LLYS/ally3.jpg
Next to get sloping sides on the fins the plate was tilted at 14 degrees and the sides of the fins got a pass with the cutter.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...LLYS/ally4.jpg
What we ended up with.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...S/154f923a.jpg
Next the shape was marked out and the excess cut off.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...S/3682b800.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...S/60c53055.jpg
The ends of the fins were then curved.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...S/c7f5d717.jpg
Next job was to remove all the sharp edges and replace with nice radius's and give it a quick polish to see how it looked.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ov7th20111.jpg
The original switch knobs were not gonna cut the mustard so new ones were made from some 1" stainless round bar.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ov7th20116.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ov7th20114.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ov7th20115.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ov7th20117.jpg
:cheers: