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Excellent craftsmanship, beautiful and creative use of materials, top notch pictures and reports.........

A big thimbs up to you!

I just read this thread thru for the first time........ Been pretty busy lately, it was well worth the time to read!

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Don - Thanks, somthing else I'm going to do different than I have done before is I am going to put lightning holes in the wishbones and ladder bars and weld in a filler piece to seal them up. Usually I just drill holes in them the size of available tubing. This time I'm going to lay them out on the computer and make them a perfect decending size down to zero. So then I will machine each size out of billet stainless and put a large radias on them and weld them in. I think that will give them a little more detail, we'll see.
Ken

That sounds a good idea Ken, should be a nice detail even if its takes a while to do, I did these a while ago and also extended them 12", that took long enough !!! I might sell them on now and get a pair like you have.

Interesting attention to the bones. Seems like an overly complicated part bolted to an assembly that finds beauty in simplicity.
I admire your fabrication skill, thought and attention to detail but i have an area under my bench where things i have made accumulate dust because they didn't pass the simplicity test. I find thta overly complicated is when vanity overrides the engineer in us, thta little guy sitting on your shoulder is whispering in your ear. Hard not to listen to him. Whom do you think Doane Spenser listened to?

You definitly won't like my T project then

Originally Posted by ojh

Interesting attention to the bones. Seems like an overly complicated part bolted to an assembly that finds beauty in simplicity.
I admire your fabrication skill, thought and attention to detail but i have an area under my bench where things i have made accumulate dust because they didn't pass the simplicity test. I find thta overly complicated is when vanity overrides the engineer in us, thta little guy sitting on your shoulder is whispering in your ear. Hard not to listen to him. Whom do you think Doane Spenser listened to?

What one person sees as "complicated" another sees as "perfection".

Don

Originally Posted by roadster32

You definitly won't like my T project then

A 'T' project? Those things are the next evolution up from having a tiller for steering! How do you handle that or is it on the wrong side too? The 't' is a study of simplicity, Henry would not use 4 bolts if he could get by with three, the packing crates from parts suppliers became the floor boards, a forged steel clevis was replaced with a bent piece of wire for the ignition advance and a farmer was the consultant for expert mechanical shop repairs!

Just having fun Roadster, i'm sure i'd love your tee.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

What one person sees as "complicated" another sees as "perfection".

Don

How true Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

What one person sees as "complicated" another sees as "perfection".

Don

So.........when my bride says dealing with me is complicated she really means I'm perfect? I'll be sure to tell her YOU said that!!

I like it - just wish I had enough tools to do some of the "complications" that folks like Ken and Steve can with SS as well as common steel.

T-buckets!! Love 'em. A study in simplicity until you get creative: http://www.google.com/images?q=t+buc...w=1677&bih=746

Thanks you guys I really appreciate the comments.
This thing with the lightning holes came about when I was figuring out what I was going to do for the infra structure inside the frame rails to strengthen the frame up. I already made up my mind that any lightning hole I made I wanted some big radius' on them, not just welding in the tubing and putting a small radius from the weld. Not that there is anything wrong with that. It's a lot of work and I think it makes a part look real nice. I just want some big ones on this car. I have been playing with the idea of making some tooling I could slip inside of the different size material I'm using but it would take so may dies it would take forever. I have dimple dies but again they wouldn't work on say a piece of 2 X 3, you could get one side dimpled but not the other. Then I thought of just taking some 1/8" sheet metal and braking one side 90 degrees. With the pieces bent like that I could dimple both pieces then weld them together and I would have a piece of 2 X 3 with big radiuses. I gave up on that when I had flash backs on welding the stainless frame together, so that was out. That's how I came up with the idea of just machining the whole thing, drill an oversize hole and slip the machined piece in and weld around the hole and it's done.
Ken

Ken i wouldn't want to do this again i had to machine up some of the tubes in mine, it seemed to take forever to get them finished

That looks really nice, some times I think I should take up knitting

Too much time spent on fit, finish, and detail would be like having too much horsepower.....I'm sure it could never happen to me!!!!!!

Really like the look with the welded tube Ken!!! Looks good, works fine, lasts a long time!

Ken,
Have you ever given a thought to hitting the show circuit when this project is done? You'll notice I said done, not completed. I'll bet there would be a big demand for a all S/S chasis + more car with the craftsmanship that yours displays. Just a crazy thought.

Jack.

Dave - I just procrastinate on the finished product. I keep looking at something I've done and wonder if there is a better way


Jack - I don't think I could do the car show circuit. When I go to a car event, and I'm there more than a few hours I'm ready to go. I couldn't spend 3 or 4 days at event. Probably my ADHD kicking in


Here is what I'm thinking on the 'bones. That's a .250 radius at the front. The last hole at the end works out to only have a 1/8" I.D so the radius has to decrees. I thought it would look neat to go down that far. It gets tricky because it is going from a rectangle to a round. That transition really creates a lot of problems, the radius has to change as the diameter changes.
Ken