Cut these out of a4'x8'x1 1/2 " sheet of steel to hang my Frankland rearend in the deuce frame,wanted to look sorta like the 35&36 ones. All done on a manual Bridgeport.
Wow! Those are really steel? At first I thought they were aluminum with just the little tabs made of steel. Holy smokes! Now I know why you put those huge lightening holes in them. Your shop floor must have about 50 pounds of steel curly cues heaped up on it!
looks great. ton of nice work in them. think i would add 2 more holes to the spring hanger area. funny how after all the work goes into them that we all can find ways to make it better. the hardest parts look so simple when done.
Very nice! I thought they were aluminum too. Man, that Bridgeport must have worked pretty hard to carve those babies out!
What size bolts attach the axle tabs to the beefy brackets? Those bolts seem like maybe the most stressed out component of all of that, since they're located in pretty close to the axle centerline. If you have tons of power and lots of traction, the axle housing will try to rotate inside those big brackets, and the shear strength of those two bolts is all that will keep it from twisting. They're both in double shear though, so it's probably plenty strong. That sure is some nice machining!
Very nice work. I am really impressed - you obviously know your stuff. You could probably mill the center - make it like a drilled I-beam for more weight reduction and still have the strength you need. If that is 1.5", mill 0.5" into each side - leaving a web 0.5" thick. Then again, what's another pound or two... Again, awesome work.
Rustybolts, bolts are 1/2", torque will be applied to the upper triagulated bars attached near the center of quickchange.
WoW I like the rusty original brackets way better... HAHAHA Just kiddin those are amazing very nice work. There so simple but yet they look so complicated. I would hope that what ever there going on has an exposed rearend or no rear floor haha just to show these pieces of art off.
Those are sweet pieces.I bet they look even better in person.Excellent work.By the way,what are those cool looking doors under the hangers?
Cool work for sure. Question for you: If you are running a these on a trianglated suspension on a QC, how are you going to align the spring perches so there are square to each other? Or are the bars going to be run straight in and the top bars triangulated? Or are the ends going to be straight with Heims attached so the bars can run triangulated? See what you did now, I am confused.
JRblack,they are straight for now,might have to angle them a little,planning to attach under the frame.
Very, very nice parts indeed. I LOVE details like this. Of course now you have to make lots of other parts to match!
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