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thanks Don & Ken, I'm trying:o to get her going
Got a few hours in befor werk today, a small update
I made some tabs to mount the double hoops, then I added some 1"x1" tube for cross bracing on the legs for added strength, and the ability to mount things potentially in the future.... one never knows
now that everything is together on the cowl I can move on to the doors.
First order of business is the lower inner corners.
After trying to make this piece by hand with 10 different small pieces of metal, a few hammers, and 10 lbs of filler wire I decided to try and make a punch and die to press form the parts.
I traced out the shape on paper, then cad, and cnc plasma cut out the rough shapes. welded everything together, did some finish sanding, hillbilly sighted the punch and die locations, and pressed out a few test parts.
I found that I need only have minimal waste material as the excess causes problems. I also found that I need to mill these parts out to 2-3 times the material thickness, and radius all the edges so the part doesn't get shear cut.
I have to wait for a friend to have time so I can use his mill to finish the die set.
However the test parts came out very well I think, especially considering I have never done anything like this befor.
I also made the die set reversible so making a right and left will be easy
Cool Deal STREETWERKZ. I did the same thing with a few firewall parts. The press deal works pretty good once you get the hang of making the dies.
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That firewall is nice!!!
now you have my head swimming with a ton of ideas of new things to make, or try!!!
This being my first go at metal working I am having a ball. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with too. There's all kinds of possibilities.
Got me motivated, whipped this out today.
it's crude, I'm not looking for a perfect part right now, as much as how this process werkz, and how to do it.
I think after a few more I'm going to fire up the cnc router and see what I can make:D
made this one out of 10 ga, and stamped 14 ga material with it
took me about an hour start to finish