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Hi Guys, Haven't been around recently, but I wanted to share some bomber seat plans I drew up. You can download them from here:...
Thanks, that would be great!
Hi Guys, Does anyone have CAD models or measurements for: - Wide 5 wheel - Wide 5 brake drums/hubs (37+) - T-5 tranny, S-10 tailshaft Thanks!
Use a collet chuck, it won't spin, and the ID is machined smooth so it won't mark the tube. Holding it in something soft in a lather chuck is a...
you can also design in some adjustment - probably enough to get +/- and inch or so.
(opps, double posted...)
I went, had a booth, made a trophy. Sat in god-awful traffic on Friday getting there, had my tow vehicle die and have to be towed...and we had a...
Just put the letters on, here is the real thing...
This is a rendering of what I'm making... The paint is still drying, candy red over white pearl and gold leaf on the diamonds. I have to put the...
Beautiful work guys, here is my contribution for this week: cast aluminum and brass: [IMG]
My thoughts: use 70S2, 70S3 or 70S6 TIG rod, somewhere between .030 and .045. You can use MIG wire to gas weld -- it's 70S6. The #1 pointer is...
Get Ron Covell's DVD "Basic Techniques for Steel", and get a copy of "The Key to Metal Bumping" by Frank Sargent (I think Eastwood still sells...
Can you post pictures of the mount area and some dimensions? Maybe some folks could throw out ideas. Mounts are a pet peeve of mine, too many...
One of the really cool things at the workshop is seeing Ron "metal finish" a part he;s made. Of course he makes it look easy, but he shows each...
And that's pretty much it. Two intense days of metal education. I got to meet some cool guys in the shop (Kent Fuller was one of the workshop...
Here is the back side of the fender and skirt. Ron talked about different ways to mount the skirt, for the purposes of the demo it is just...
Here is the outside of the finished fender and skirt. Ron only metal finished a 3" strip around the wheel opening, on a customer part of course...
Then the skirt was trimmed, clamped to the skirt buck/hammerform, and the edges formed up. [IMG]
Ron marked the surface of the skirt to show his plan for wheeling the skirt. He had the shape into the part really quickly. [IMG]
After the work on the fender, the skirt went REALLY fast. The shape is very low-crown, so no shrinking is required on the edges. Ron use the...
The process is hammer on-dolly to raise the low spots, file again to see if you missed any and hammer again. Ron worked across the face of the...
Here you can see the first area Ron is working on. The areas the file didn't hit are low, and he will hammer on-dolly in these areas to raise...
Once Ron had the lumps that he could feel worked out, he used a body file ("vixen file") on the surface. The point of this is to find any...
The wood clamp strip made a few indentations in this area of the fender. Ron started by hammering off-dolly (holding the hammer tight against a...
Next Ron moved on to a very detailed explanation/demo of "metal finishing". This is a process where all of the lumps and bumps are smoothed out...
Here is the bottom front of the fender rolled over. [IMG]
There are two things to take note of in this picture. First Ron is using wood blocks to clamp against the outside of the fender to keep from...
Then Ron rolled the bottom edges of the fender over the 5/8" round rod on the buck. [IMG]
Here is a close-up of the hammer forming process. Ron was careful to select a hammer with a face that fits into the curve of the opening. [IMG]
The fender is clamped to the buck and the wheel opening is hammer-formed. [IMG]
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