How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

The two top rails provided me with a bit of work copying. Now if I had a huge press brake it would be simple. Buuut since I don't I needed to make these another way. I ended up using 1/8" angle iron and welding on a thin strip. I used some scrap pieces as a spacer and tacked it on the outside. I then upped the heat on the welder and did small sections along the inside. Once that was done, I ground down the inside to give it a radius bend. On the outside I ground down the excess angle iron. Finally I used a flap disk and worked the two outside corners to give them the profile of being bent on a brake. The first two pictures are my finished piece. The last two pictures are of the initial welding using a spacer pieces to give me the correct inside distance.