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03-01-16, 11:14
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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, 17:06
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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, 10:24
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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, 10:40
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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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#5
09-01-16, 11:54
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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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09-01-16, 12:01
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There is so many different channels some on the outside and then ones that fit on the inside, not to mention the amount of holes with countersink points as well. Some things may not make a lot of sense but I'm just showing some of my methods of construction and fabrication.
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#7
09-01-16, 12:10
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I should have done a few more pics but what I did was make a hole jig out of 16mm thick plate and milled it to fit inside the channels. I marked the plate as accurate as I could where the holes go and drilled a 3.5mm hole at those points. I used thick plate so I could drill buy hand and the thickness kept the drill bit vertical. With so many to do it was much quicker to do by hand rather than the drill press.
I also made a countersink tool to fit my cropper.
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