Absolutely stunning work!
Rich
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Absolutely stunning work!
Rich
Thanks for all the comments guys! Ryan, you can never go wrong with the machines to do it yourself.
Had a busy weekend but didn't get anything done. :whacked:
Saturday I went to the 15th annual Jalopyrama, this year it was held at the Talbot County Community Center in Easton, MD. I didn't get many pictures this year as there are far too many people taking pictures with much better cameras than I had (iPhone). This year's theme was a focus on vintage race cars, and the indoor arena was filled with dragsters, gassers, etc, as well as some of the nicest hot rods to be found on the East Coast. I did get a shot of my buddy Dirty Dave's gasser, which is basically his daily driver. Odd to see it indoors as much as he drives the wheels off it! haha..
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...2/IMG_4696.jpg
Next to it was the "Hamb Special", a vintage pickup classed race truck built for Bonneville, making it's debut on the salt last year. Owned by John Mullen of Lanexa VA, built by John and many of the members of the VA Hamb. My buddy Dave Russell gets the piloting duties on the salt, and we caught up at the show and talked shop.
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...2/IMG_4697.jpg
It has a 262 Ford 6 cylinder, but caught the attention of many of the racer's inside the building when it was being brought in. That idle didn't sound much like any 6 cylinder I've heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ot0UTIhtv4
….and I did get a picture for Joe Unger. This truck would look awesome in front of his Sinclair station in Perry..
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...2/IMG_4698.jpg
Sunday was another car show, this one a bit more local for me, put on in downtown Leonardtown by the St. Mary's Rod and Classic Car Club to benefit Hospice and many other charitable organizations.
We set up in front of John's shop, along with his Biederman truck, and a couple tables of our fabrications. Got a bit too much Sun, but really enjoyed getting out and talking to everyone about their projects.
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...2/IMG_4702.jpg
Last night was repair time for a dirt car. We had a severe fold/wrinkle to remove to get ready for next weekend, and with little in the means to "pull", we resorted to some MacGyver action on some Vise Grips...
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That should hold it for this weekend.
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wow! Much better. I would of had to buy or have fabricated a new panel!
Holy wow! That is the most wicked 6 cylinder I've heard. It sounds really similar to a V8 at idle until they give it some rpm. Your friend's gasser is pretty sweet too! Great panel stretching too.
Quote, "Ryan, you can never go wrong with the machines to do it yourself. "
SO true! But it is a very slippery slope! There will be more and more tooling needed / wanted and most of the tooling will cost you more than what you paid for the machine to start with. Ask me how I know.. :LOL::rolleyes::LOL::rolleyes::p
Robert, as always - awesome work. :)
Missed the link to the 6cyl truck video. Very lopy sound for straight 6!
So last weekend I went to Ron Yeager's shop in Kingsville, MD for a metalshaping workshop. Reconnected with some old friends and made some new ones.. Thanks to Ron for opening his shop so we could all learn some new tricks and methods..
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Today I got another speaker trim ring put together.....this one for the sub in the cargo area of the wagon. We planned on a recessed crest in the stainless mesh, so the mesh was aligned in our aluminum plates and pressed in the Diacro press brake using flattening dies.
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...7/IMG_4762.jpg
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Video Version....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWMT...ature=youtu.be
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Wow that came out nice.
Loved the Biederman Tee shirt too. 8-)
The owner had a few printed up and gave me one, I’ll have to ask if he had any extra..
Went back and looked didn't see the t-shirt, unless it's cut off in a photo?
Milage must vary. My third photo from top is just the cab.
Post a nice pic, we might get enough interest to justify a second run.
it's even titled with an 03.. :LOL:
Cropped for focus.....
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Very nice work on that! It turned out really cool. I spied the t shirt too and was wondering where in the world that guy found that. It isn't everyday you even hear about one of those. :LOL:
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Thanks for all the comments guys!
Spent last night getting an assembly line going to get the rest of the speaker grills assembled. Just say no to plastic speaker grills!
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I've said it so many times in this thread already but... WOW, Just WOW!
Beautiful work Robert.
Great work! That is really going to look slick in there!
Did the photo's in #1367 and #1379 disappear for everyone? I've got the pictures of the kitten, saying Photo Not Found..... CLICK for Photo, but no joy with the click.
Pics are all still there for me.
Roger, did pictures ever show up for you? I can only guess PB was doing some maintenance??
Well it's been rather hectic around the home front as E is nearing graduation. Seems like yesterday she was showing me how to properly wet sand bare foot..
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For shop activity, Mike has been working on a sign for a "Drummer's Lounge", since we had the wire edging tool already made up for the Biederman, he used that to give the outside bands of the arrow the beaded look...
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...2/IMG_4804.jpg
CAD drawing:
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...2/IMG_4844.jpg
Parts is parts:
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47I...ature=youtu.be
Meanwhile, I've been block sanding, and priming.... here the rear kick panels are now ready for upholstery...
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...7/IMG_4879.jpg
I did break out the Meco torch again the other day to get the dust off....
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This first coupon shows how Peter Tommasini teaches tacking in gas welding. Tack a spot, then the next is placed where the HAZ (blue ring) touches the seam between the halves. And repeat. Note how this method leaves an almost perfect HAZ for minimal distortion..
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And we had a blowout. Don't stop, keep going and come back to it.. This is fusion welded, no filler, front side shown first, then back side
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Stephen has been mocking up the power windows in the front doors so we can side step all the components and find a good location for our speakers. No pictures yet, I'll get some this week...
I didn't realize your CAD Drawing meant Concrete Aided Design. Cool!!
And it isn't a new technique, there was a time when every ship in the world had her beam laid in just that fashion.
Most impressive to see the pictures of the Titanic or one of her sister ships being laid out on the floor, I think there is a video of it on u-tube.
We had issue fitting the round speakers into the square holes in the door, so we used some 18 ga CRS to form some rings, the seam was gas welded.
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Then some flanges were tipped to form an adapter ring.. Stephen's first time using the Lennox..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WolTnnoKfnM
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These will get welded into place...
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John is tying up the loose ends on the Biederman, the running board skirts were installed the other night.....
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The dump body has been painted and he expects to get that installed tomorrow evening.
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He will get it loaded up next week for the trip to Macungie PA for the truck show next weekend.
Had some questions about how the rings were formed, here's additional info. The outer ring is started on the Fasti-werks bead roller using the tipping die and the lower die we made last week.
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Once it started to resist the tipping (needs stretching of the flange) we changed to using the linear stretch dies in the Lennox TE250
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX0gzPlqXEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATRYXZ-I3CU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KRturFOdHA
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Originally we were looking at using the area below the power window motor, but in order to clear the power connector it would be too close to the bottom of the door...
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...7/IMG_5083.jpg
With not much else for room in the door, we opted to open a hole at the rear area of the inner hinge brace.
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...7/IMG_5110.jpg
With space above for the tweeter, this will closely mimic what we have in the rear kick panels..
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The rings will get TIG welded in place, but before that we'll add a bit of structure back in the hinge brace.
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John has the Biederman loaded up and is headed up to Macungie PA today for the truck show this weekend.
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This is the "tow" vehicle with Ian Watson, who is visiting from Melbourne Australia.
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Anyone going to the Macungie show this weekend, stop by and check out the Biederman, a pretty rare truck..
Mike is still plugging away on the Drummer's Lounge sign.
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Saturday he started fabrication of the insert panels. One side will be plug welded in place, the other will be removeable to access the wiring for the flashing lights.
Tracing the first pattern onto some 19 ga crs, and adding mounting flanges.
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The bend lines are run through the bead roller with a tipping die into the skate board wheel to better mark the bend location. Makes it easier to locate the upper press brake die as it will fall into the indent.
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Since everything is a tool, and we needed to fold down a bit of metal in the inside corner, a piece of angle is chosen for it's inside radius match and a body hammer with a nice barrel roll on it does the trick...
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Side #2....
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While he was busy with that, I continued on our speaker mount modification to the doors. Since we had cut away at the hinge mounting structure, we needed to add strength back in that surrounded the speaker. We chose a cone shape over cylindrical as we thought that would have less chance of collapse under stress. Our pattern is cut out and transferred to some 14 gauge cold rolled, the same thickness as the hinge structure.
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I forgot to get pictures of us rolling the cones, but basically as shown here with the pattern, the bend line was kept aligned with the vertex of the outer angle cuts, and slightly pressed, move and repeat, and continued until we have a good roll where the ends met up.
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We plan on wire edge on the edge inside the square opening, so let's use gas welding for a more pliable weld area.
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...7/IMG_5181.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWXNOFgSas
The cone is then trimmed to fit the structure profile...
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Flange is left for our wire edging of the open area...
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The flange is tipped on the bead roller and then used the linear stretch dies in the Lennox to both stretch and tip the flange over to flat.
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Then we use this modified Craftsman punch to hammer over a rounded void for the 3/16 wire to lay in..
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Then we have some modified vise grips that have a relief cut into the top so it won't slip off the wire when clamped.
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The wires were left long so they could better tie into the hinge structure, here the VEE relief is where the wire will weld to that structure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVDpRCER54
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Tacked in place with the MIG, then TIG welded....
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All cleaned up and then primed with some epoxy primer before we weld the speaker mounting ring in place.
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Back on our speaker mounting ring, we welded on some 8-32 hex nuts on the back side....
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Then the ring is TIG welded in the door...
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After welding, the area is scuffed and brush painted using SPI epoxy primer.
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https://youtu.be/ywadRNLIywA
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Mighty brave, welding an 8-32 nut.
I'd have opted to weld in a piece of rod, then drilled and tapped.
Then, I tend to have a heavy hand when applying the heat.
.040 tungsten, rare earth purple band. I also put a very small amount of anti-seize on the screw threads to keep it from galling and locking onto the nut.
More very nice work! Those speaker mounts would have been 3 pieces and 3 times as long as yours. Haha :LOL:
That Biederman is looking awesome!.
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Passenger door modifications, inner structure added...
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...7/IMG_5307.jpg
…..speaker mounting ring welded in place and brush painted using SPI epoxy primer..
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In our attempt to finalize all the needed fabrications before getting deep into paint mode, we had some clearance issues to deal with on the Vintage Air bracket for the AC compressor. The initial mockup showed that the upper mounting tab was too close to the tall valve covers we have on the 383 stroker. A half inch spacer under the intake mounting tab gives us about 1/4" clearance, and shows how much we need to modify the water pump mounting tab.
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I didn't have much in the selection of 1/4" flat stock, so the shoulder of a 5/16 bolt was used, first the root pass and then a filler pass.
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Another part checked off the list....
Time to play catch-up, had a short hiatus in Upstate NY on the St Lawrence river.
Daytime and sunset:
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I picked up some louver dies that are set up for the press brake but should be the start of a louver press eventually... got both 2" and 3" dies.
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I also have a couple good friends that understand my tool addiction that both sent me a link to an ad for body tools, especially for the Vise Grips. Here's what I picked up from a retired bodyman, now to keep these quality tools going. VG collection is now over 130.. never enough.
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...2/IMG_5446.jpg
...and with the engine brackets back from powder coating, and our new 45* water neck arrived, we were able to get the belts and upper hose all mocked up. The hose we used was a Dayco 72384, made as a lower hose for a V6 Ford Explorer, but it fits this application like a glove...
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Video version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TvMKp_9VH4
Spent some time organizing, needed some racks for all the Lennox dies..
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One set down, two more to go....
Organizing is a good thing then you can find them when needed