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03-01-16, 04:07
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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
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03-01-16, 10:09
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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.
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03-01-16, 10:14
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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.
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03-01-16, 16:06
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Nice looking results Colin. What is the material thickness of the mount plates?
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1953 M37 CDN 1953 M38A1 CDN 1967 M38A1 CDN2
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04-01-16, 09:24
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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.
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04-01-16, 09:40
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I just thought I would add a couple of pics of the top brackets I made that bolt on top of the radio set. Also I made a new clutch lever as I only had standart truck ones. In this case I cut the bottom part off that has the tapered pin and just made a new top for it as it is considerably longer and a larger pin at the top. That's all ready to go back in
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09-01-16, 10:54
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I'm now up to making the channels for the mount and I can't believe how complicated they made these things. I'm sure they could have done it a lot simpler but anyway that's what it is.
I'm trying to cut as much on the flat then fold as possible and there is some doubler plates that are spot welded as well. I'm so glad I have my old 1943 spot welder.
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