Vc 2047 lp2

[Michael R.]

Nice work Colin. Best wishes for 2016.

[jack neville]

Nice work Colin. That press is getting a good work out of recent.......

All the best for the new year mate.

[colin jones]

Thankyou Michael and yes Jack is has been getting a bit of use. As soon as this machine is done I'll get on to that project for you

[colin jones]

Being Sunday I managed some good shed time so I cut enough ends for 6 mounts (12 Plates) gave them a sand blast and got them ready for pressing. I tried my vertical press first but it struggled realy hard so I had to use my cropper which is a 160ton machine and had no trouble getting the plates totally flat and they pressed out very nice.

[colin jones]

I got all the corners rounded and the 90deg bends done and now working on the doubler plates. These certainly are fairly tricky components to make.

[Wayne Hingley]

Nice looking results Colin. What is the material thickness of the mount plates?

[colin jones]

Thankyou Wayne and the thickness is 16G. I wasn't going to put any pics up tonight as I haven't done a lot but I just thought I'd share one way of riveting 2 pieces of material together without buying premade rivets which can be expensive for what they are and the hassle of getting the correct dia and length. I have used a piece of mild steel rod, in this case it is 1/4" cut at the width of material plus about the dia. I drilled the appropriate hole dia and in this case I used my hole punch as a press but you can easily use a standard old garage press. I normally have a shallow hole underneath so when you press the top you can turn it over and have a bit of meat left to flatten that down as well and it works a treat. You could use any old weld mesh, Racking mesh old bolts or even heavy fencing wire for small jobs and flatten with a hammer.
Anyway for what it was worth it was my 2 bobs worth.
Colin.