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

Don

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

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

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

Ha! You????????? Personally I am just going to take up sitting in my chair and talking to myself.

And Bob, I have no doubt your Wife knows you are simply perfect in all respects!

Don