Thought I could make my own insert for radiator shell , kind of liked the diamond mesh look . Bought some aluminum rod to go with aluminum mesh that work threw out and started. Bent rod using cheap old tubing bender like this After some finesse it looks like this Took the mesh and hammered it down into hoop Alittle welding Alittle tweaking to fit nice , get some powder satin black and there it is Well that was my first technical post ,hope it's not too messed up looking
Looks great! ( and wasn't made in China for 15 bucks and sold here for 250!!) Make more and sell them on here!
Nice work. Making that rod fit the contour of the shell ain't no easy thing to do but you nailed it like a pro.
Wow. Most of the time I'm disappointed in how guys try to rig up something that looks bad. But, this is really cool. If you wanted to get fancy you could even add some chrome drawer knobs to change it up later.
Yeah that was the hardest part, especially since I wasn't smart enough to do it before painting the shell ,lots of tape !
I like it. It reminds me of some deuce grills I saw on show rods back in the 60s. I think Barris did one similar to that once.