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Ken,I am really enjoying the challenge of working out the bits and pieces that need doing,its just that sometimes I need to look at a real 32,and thats a bit hard when there arent any REAL ones locally..I have to go hunting pix for the details...The framing will be fun..We have a strict set of guide lines,but it will work itself out..
Steve,[roadster],have you been on our site??It needs up grading again,and we havent any pix of the 32,apart from the one on there,which belongs to a friend who is building an American Graffiti clone..it was the movie which poisoned his system all those years ago..I have a body here with a 2'' chop which is going to Magoos in Masterton,eventually,so I am using that for a bit of development at the moment..

Got a link to your site lamin8r ???

Sorry for hijack Ken.

Originally Posted by lamin8r

Ken,I am really enjoying the challenge of working out the bits and pieces that need doing,its just that sometimes I need to look at a real 32,and thats a bit hard when there arent any REAL ones locally..I have to go hunting pix for the details...The framing will be fun..We have a strict set of guide lines,but it will work itself out..
Steve,[roadster],have you been on our site??It needs up grading again,and we havent any pix of the 32,apart from the one on there,which belongs to a friend who is building an American Graffiti clone..it was the movie which poisoned his system all those years ago..I have a body here with a 2'' chop which is going to Magoos in Masterton,eventually,so I am using that for a bit of development at the moment..

Originally Posted by roadster32

Got a link to your site lamin8r ???

Sorry for hijack Ken.

Steve,hit on my user name,gotta home page..

ken your skill amazes me. i kno that i would never get there

Barb.
Thank you, I just really love building these things.
Ken

It's really interesting to see the way you are building this frame, Ken. I like the way you welded little separators between the upper and lower parts of the rails to temporarily keep them in line until fully welded. That alone had to take a bunch of time. What are you planning when it is all done, are you going to have it sent out for polishing, or do it yourself, or??????

Whatever you do, it will be top notch, like everything you do.

Don

Thanks don, I really appreciate your comments. We are going to polish it in house. I'm welding the front haves together now. Once I have them together I will have four pieces, then I will polish them then weld them together which will give me the two complete frame rails. The next problem actually before I polish them is detailing the welds. I want the rails to look like one piece. So blending the welds into a nice radius, just like a stamped piece is a problem. Right now I think I will get a grinding wheel, just like you have on your bench grinder, that is made for stainless. Make a tool with the radius that I want the finished weld to look like then cut into the face of the grinding wheel to match the radius I want on the weld. Then just go over all the welds, touching up the grinding wheel as needed to make it all symmetrical. Nothing to this stuff
Then I will put the two rails in my frame fixture and start on the K members and the process starts all over. I want this thing to look like a piece of jewelry.
Ken