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Steve - I think by the time I finish this thing I won't want to see a piece of stainless steel for the rest of my life


Steve - If I can help you with this let me know, if you get serious about getting a set.
Ken

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Steve - I think by the time I finish this thing I won't want to see a piece of stainless steel for the rest of my life


Steve - If I can help you with this let me know, if you get serious about getting a set.
Ken

Ken I hear you! If I ever get done with bondo and dents just on the pickup bed, I'll never attempt another project with a 63 year old truck body again

Those are beautiful, Ken. You are going to need sunglasses when you get this car out in the sun.

Smart move getting a set for the back, it will make the front and back really match well.

Don

Thanks Ken thats a very kind offer i may have to take you up on

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Steve - I think by the time I finish this thing I won't want to see a piece of stainless steel for the rest of my life


Steve - If I can help you with this let me know, if you get serious about getting a set.
Ken

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

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.