How To Make An Egg-Crate Grille

I was beginning to think no one cared! Hardly anyone read it until a few hours ago!

~Jason

 

I was just looking at a 330GTC grille and stainless surround in the scrap bin at work and this convex Alfa tipo C. Aluminium surrounds aren't hard with a simple buck if the actual hole won't do.

 

Pretty cool, now how about sneaking a picture of the car in lol

"Doc" Parsons

 

Actually, with a carbide tipped wood blade, there isn't a need to mount the blade backward. I've done a fair bit of aluminum cutting with a table saw...and it works fine for me up 1/2" plate - the thickest I've tried. It will get fairly hot though.

Steel may be a totally different story.

Tim D.

 

one of those would look great in a 32 shell.
If you were real industrious you could get the vertical bars cut in a water jet (or other machine) and do a curved grille for something like a 49 merc...
great tech!

 

Excellent! I may have to switch my thoughts to an egg crate for my Venus project, however, I am first hoping for a diagonal "fence" as found on the '66 or '67(?) GTO's. But I like this egg crate idea better than some cheap expanded/punched metal.
Thanks!
http://mcload.wordpress.com/

 

I'm curious,,,how can the backside of a blade possibly cut? Are you speaking of a table-saw type blade? I can't imagine it would even cut wood, let alone metal.

Patrick

 

Don't know about the wood cutting blade, but I've done aluminum on a table saw with a carbide tiped metal cutting blade.

I've got that mag somewhre, not sure what I could suff an egg crate grill in (still scheming though).

 

That's Kit Car Guru Harold Pace's original, never-put-together Devin from the 50s that he recently did up. He did several articles in Kit Car as he built it, including this one.

Here's the finished car getting pinstriped:
http://www.kitcarmag.com/techarticles/0805kc_pinstripe_basics/index.html

Kit Car mags are GREAT places for applicable tech you won't find anywhere else... same goes for kit plane mags!

~Jason

[QUOTE="Doc" Parsons;3380532]Pretty cool, now how about sneaking a picture of the car in lol

"Doc" Parsons[/QUOTE]

 

Common way to cut steel siding, soffit and roofing material.

 

I also think it's a great thread.Thank you for all the photo's,lots of good info.Makes me think about changing my grill

 

As much as I'd like to take credit for it, I can't! It's Harold Pace's.

~Jason

 

Flame on me all you want guys, there is no way you can look at this Alfa and not think this is a ritchous hot rod !!!!!

 

My guys cut aluminum all day long with chopsaws, we use fint tooth carbide trim blades and go slow. I never run carbides backwards because the teeth can get knocked off and they will go right in you. When using a blade backwards for tin use a cheap steel blade with no carbides.

 

sweet but welding would be less ghetto-fabulous.

 

Backwards is common for sideing. Use it correctly for thicker stuff. We've cut 1 inch thick before. Put grease on the backside so it draws it back into the piece.
Mike

 

Hi guys,
Glad the article worked for some of you. As vonMoldy noted would be best Tigged at the ends, but I don't have a TIG so did it the easy (inferior) way!
Harold Pace

 

Thanks for the tech info, it's very helpful.I am looking to do some sort of a different grille for my 54 Ford Panel.
Along those same lines, does anybody know of a source for the type of stainless steel material, like that on a Cadillac CTV-S grille?
I saw a little section of it used as a screen on a vent on a F-100, and I would like to find a grille size piece of similar material......

 

Great thread man!

So I've got this idea...It involves a King Kong Gyro and a little persausion..And a certain Olds powered '94 Chevy truck that's in need of a grille....

I dig it, time to send that cheesey billet thing-a-ma-jig back...

 

good brain food tech post!

 

Hey, Harold!

I didn't even know you were on the HAMB!

~Jason

 

I would check with junkyards and the body shop at the caddy dealer -- you could use a part of a damaged one.

There's also those after-market grilles for Chrysler 300s, which come up on Craigslist.

 

54FordPanel - do a search for Pegasus Racing...they have stainless mesh with various sized spacing...somewhere in MN I think...

 

Yes they do. Bookmarked them, thanks much!

 

McMaster Carr sell this in many different sizes and metal types. It's called crimped wire cloth (or mesh).

http://www.mcmaster.com/#wire-mesh/=2gjtiz

Other type of mesh panels can be found here,

http://www.mcmaster.com/#wire-mesh/=2gjs5j

 

Thanks......

 

Nice to learn how to make something...thanx

 

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

 

Harold Pace is a friend of mine. I have seen that car in person. It looks really cool.


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I didn't even know you were on the HAMB Harold. Nice to see you on here.

Pete

 

Thanks for the cool tech.