Technical Show Us Your Fabricated Parts

I designed and made Stainless Steel Security Locks for my Suicide Doors using the Escutcheons from a Standard Model A Coupe ,they slide into plastic caster plugs located in the Female Dovetails for each Door on my 4 Door Vicky C400

 

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Ohhh I'm stealing that one !!!
Nice

 

Here is a Link to a better explanation of these locks , thanks for your interest
https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33526&highlight=suicide+door+locks

 

That’s impressive, as is the whole car !

 

I hammer-formed the floorboards in my tudor:


Starting with a male buck from 1/2" MDF:


...temporarily screwed & clamped 18 ga. sheet metal to the buck with some overlap on each side.

The buck's slots were for my "caveman bead roller"; I pounded a 1/4" diameter steel rod against the metal above each slot until it deformed into a nice straight stiffening bead.


...then clamped each edge with an angle iron brace (an old bed frame) and gently pounded over a 90* flange.


Finally, the flanges were trimmed and screw holes welded shut.

 

OK, this is my new favorite thread. I love fabricated parts, I get totally lost at shows crawling around looking at cool hand made bits.

This is a current piece, driveshaft loop with a drop out for my Studebaker pickup. I'm re-doing the suspension I threw together years ago because it's too wide and the fab work wasn't a nice as I wanted. This is the start, it will get incorporated into a new crossmember that will mount the front 4-link brackets to replace the stock crossmember. All the rusty bits are the original setup I made years ago.

 

I fabricated this idea and now manufacture these parts to stop the hot air,dust, fumes coming inside your vehicle ! For the brake pedal and steering column . Safety first, for our rides !! Can be purchased at www.jjsrods.com Have pay pal too. Safety for our rides !

 

That's a cool piece!
Did you keep track of the hours it took?

 

Thanks! It was fun to design and make.

No clue how long it took, and it seemed to take too long, mostly because I'm out of practice. Probably a day and a half, spread over a week or so. Shouldn't have been more than half a day, but between searching for the right tool and having to re-point the tungsten over and over I wasted a lot of time. But it was fun to build.

The rest of the parts for the suspension are simpler. I think. We'll see.

 

Very nice work man real clean stuff!

 

I won't post the OT fabrication I did for my 46 Olds however here is my engine tube. It was widened and set back allowing me to use Fenton headers. Without this modification, the exhaust outlets would foul on the engine tube with OEM side mounts. A front mounted Hurst style mount would also foul due to low mount accessories (AC & PS). 1/2" plates bolt to OEM block mounts and allows mounts to sit back further with clearance for exhaust tubing. Plates were machined on rear to provide mount clearance and for all intents are purposes it looks OEM when viewed from above. There is a gusset (1/2" stock) down the length of the inner flange, front to rear. Don't try to install a SBC without them as mounts wouldn't line up and engine would foul on firewall due to set back.

 

Nothing fancy here, just assembling the front 4-link mounts for my Studebaker truck. I laid out the main parts in CAD and had them laser cut, then made the simple bits, machined some spacers and alignment bosses for welding and glued them together.

I did all the suspension layout in CAD to get the "packaging" of the air bags, 4-links, panhard, shocks, and sway bar as neat as possible. I'm eager to get it all built and see how it works out. I like the Studebaker "S" I incorporated into the 4-link brackets.

 

Here`s a little sheet metal work I did.

 

Wow, the talent here on the HAMB is amazing!

 

Old style poor boy dual headers made from the rear halves of two stock Model A manifolds. Pretty jack-legged compared to most of the stuff in this thread, though.

 

Maybe,but thats hot rodding. All these laser cut, CAD designed, CNC machined parts are indeed beautiful and well engineered and made, but I think home made hot rod fabrication like yours is what the HAMB is really all about.

 

Well said. I fab stuff for function mostly........if it ends up looking nice that's a bonus!

 

Damn, really nice. Getting the smooth takes offs across those panels is tricky, really nice job man. How did you handle attaching the skin to the chassis? I plan to build a bed for my project and am trying to think through how I'll handle that. I'm thinking I'll make a structure from 16 gauge tube that will serve as both a wireform buck and sub-structure for the finished panels. I'll probably need to have some temporary stations in the structure while shaping the panels that will be removed before finishing.

 

Some great looking craftsmanship here. Here is a brake booster and pedal swing I fabbed up for my 40. Just need to weld in the rod and weld out the bracket.

 

Homemade pedal set for under floor. The first time I did the pedals in my 28A,I was 16years old,an made swing pedals from under the dash in 1959,but never really like the feel of them. So many years later I did these an feel great now,move right with your foot.