If you'd stop lollygagging around and continue working on this rig during the "slightly cold" winter days you'd probably be able to drive the thing THIS summer instead of 2018.
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'72 K5 - Greg's @MightAsWellK5 Build
- Thread starter Greg72
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This is the build description. I will improve this later. (GB)
If you'd stop lollygagging around and continue working on this rig during the "slightly cold" winter days you'd probably be able to drive the thing THIS summer instead of 2018.
K20Chevrolet
1/2 ton status
any updates? 
any updates?
Yeah...... there are about 2000 CK5'ers who are going to want to kill you for bumping this thread, and causing the instant email notification.
-G
Stomis
Professional Amateur
Yeah...... there are about 2000 CK5'ers who are going to want to kill you for bumping this thread, and causing the instant email notification.
-G
So thats a no?
bp71k5
3/4 ton status
Where'd the pitchfork icons go?
k5keith
Newbie
I just went through every page of this build and it is truly amazing
I feel the same way.
How about I go to my local machinist and build some tapered rockslider mounts tonight, and post some new photos tomorrow???
It's almost 50 degrees here today, I guess it's finally time to wake from my winter slumber and blow out the cobwebs from this thread!
-G
How about I go to my local machinist and build some tapered rockslider mounts tonight, and post some new photos tomorrow???
It's almost 50 degrees here today, I guess it's finally time to wake from my winter slumber and blow out the cobwebs from this thread!
-G
I meant somebody bumping the thread without any updates.
I know what you meant....I was trying to give some "cover" to k5Keith, who doesn't post much around these parts, but was likely to be eviscerated by the rest of you for bumping my thread.
Real update tomorrow (with pics). I promise.
-G
y5mgisi
1 ton status
2015.03.12 - UPDATE! - TAPERING BACK INTO BUILD MODE !!!
It's finally happening.
I'm shaking off the winter blues, and starting to feel that motivation again... and it only took a small push from my local buddy who wanted to get into his shop to play with some CNC equipment.
It wasn't really the "next" item on my agenda, but when the offer for free shop time is offered......YOU TAKE IT. So last night, we worked on some of the smaller parts for the removable rockslider mounts.
The Material:
1.75" Solid Round, and 2.00" Solid Round steel....
And here's the machine that we spent most of our time staring at last night....
We spend a brief amount of time on this one as well.... it's a LOT faster than cutting solid bar with a Sawz-All in my own garage!!
The first steps were to clean-up with outer diameters of the material, so that they could be clamped into the chuck and maintain a consistent center point. A few thousandths were removed and the ends were cleaned up. Here's an in-process shot of the parts as they were finished up. Remember, there are 5 of these slugs per rockslider... so each of these machining processes has to happen 10 times.
The slugs we are building here are the ones that get welded into the existing square tubes under the rocker panel area (2-1/2" x 2-1/2"). As you may remember, the concept is to put decent taper into the slugs so that when the outer rockslider tubing is attached, each of the mounting points seeks it's "center" as it goes into those 5 tapered holes.
To make a taper, first you need to drill a standard through-hole. Then, you write a different program that actually cuts the angled hole from that.
The cutting process started out as a series of rough "steps" into the slug itself. The cut starts on the large side of the hole and gets more tapered as the cutting head moves inward. That sort of makes sense, since you wouldn't have the clearance for the tool if you tried to cut the taper the opposite way.
What was interesting is that the end result of the first passes looked a LOT like what you'd get if you tried to drill a hole using a Uni-Bit. There are very obvious "steps" in the taper as the majority of the material is being removed.
On the final pass of the program, the cutting head moves slower and gets rid of all of those steps in the part.....leaving a nice, uniform taper all the way to the other side.
As we approached midnight, we had all of the 3" slugs cut to length, squared-up, with a through hole, and two of the 10 had the completed taper finished. We also cut the 1.75" solid bar down to 10" lengths (these will be connect the tapered landing area of the rockslider to the visible outer portion of the rockslider that I've already built and hung on the truck.
Overall, it was VERY cool to see how tapers get made... I had never seen anything like that in person before and it was fun to watch the finish product reveal itself from a chunk of raw material (and TONS of metal chips)!!!!
-G
It's finally happening.
I'm shaking off the winter blues, and starting to feel that motivation again... and it only took a small push from my local buddy who wanted to get into his shop to play with some CNC equipment.
It wasn't really the "next" item on my agenda, but when the offer for free shop time is offered......YOU TAKE IT. So last night, we worked on some of the smaller parts for the removable rockslider mounts.
The Material:
1.75" Solid Round, and 2.00" Solid Round steel....
And here's the machine that we spent most of our time staring at last night....
We spend a brief amount of time on this one as well.... it's a LOT faster than cutting solid bar with a Sawz-All in my own garage!!
The first steps were to clean-up with outer diameters of the material, so that they could be clamped into the chuck and maintain a consistent center point. A few thousandths were removed and the ends were cleaned up. Here's an in-process shot of the parts as they were finished up. Remember, there are 5 of these slugs per rockslider... so each of these machining processes has to happen 10 times.
The slugs we are building here are the ones that get welded into the existing square tubes under the rocker panel area (2-1/2" x 2-1/2"). As you may remember, the concept is to put decent taper into the slugs so that when the outer rockslider tubing is attached, each of the mounting points seeks it's "center" as it goes into those 5 tapered holes.
To make a taper, first you need to drill a standard through-hole. Then, you write a different program that actually cuts the angled hole from that.
The cutting process started out as a series of rough "steps" into the slug itself. The cut starts on the large side of the hole and gets more tapered as the cutting head moves inward. That sort of makes sense, since you wouldn't have the clearance for the tool if you tried to cut the taper the opposite way.
What was interesting is that the end result of the first passes looked a LOT like what you'd get if you tried to drill a hole using a Uni-Bit. There are very obvious "steps" in the taper as the majority of the material is being removed.
On the final pass of the program, the cutting head moves slower and gets rid of all of those steps in the part.....leaving a nice, uniform taper all the way to the other side.
As we approached midnight, we had all of the 3" slugs cut to length, squared-up, with a through hole, and two of the 10 had the completed taper finished. We also cut the 1.75" solid bar down to 10" lengths (these will be connect the tapered landing area of the rockslider to the visible outer portion of the rockslider that I've already built and hung on the truck.
Overall, it was VERY cool to see how tapers get made... I had never seen anything like that in person before and it was fun to watch the finish product reveal itself from a chunk of raw material (and TONS of metal chips)!!!!
-G
I assume you are getting buddy pricing on the machine work?
Martin
Martin
That's definite buddy pricing.
Martin
Martin
chulisohombre
1/2 ton status
That's a pretty cool thing to see. Glad to see more progress as usual and not just at a hey how's it going bump? Lol
2015.03.12 - UPDATE! - TAPERING BACK INTO BUILD MODE !!!
It's finally happening.
I'm shaking off the winter blues, and starting to feel that motivation again... and it only took a small push from my local buddy who wanted to get into his shop to play with some CNC equipment.
It wasn't really the "next" item on my agenda, but when the offer for free shop time is offered......YOU TAKE IT. So last night, we worked on some of the smaller parts for the removable rockslider mounts.
The Material:
1.75" Solid Round, and 2.00" Solid Round steel....
And here's the machine that we spent most of our time staring at last night....
We spend a brief amount of time on this one as well.... it's a LOT faster than cutting solid bar with a Sawz-All in my own garage!!
The first steps were to clean-up with outer diameters of the material, so that they could be clamped into the chuck and maintain a consistent center point. A few thousandths were removed and the ends were cleaned up. Here's an in-process shot of the parts as they were finished up. Remember, there are 5 of these slugs per rockslider... so each of these machining processes has to happen 10 times.
The slugs we are building here are the ones that get welded into the existing square tubes under the rocker panel area (2-1/2" x 2-1/2"). As you may remember, the concept is to put decent taper into the slugs so that when the outer rockslider tubing is attached, each of the mounting points seeks it's "center" as it goes into those 5 tapered holes.
To make a taper, first you need to drill a standard through-hole. Then, you write a different program that actually cuts the angled hole from that.
The cutting process started out as a series of rough "steps" into the slug itself. The cut starts on the large side of the hole and gets more tapered as the cutting head moves inward. That sort of makes sense, since you wouldn't have the clearance for the tool if you tried to cut the taper the opposite way.
What was interesting is that the end result of the first passes looked a LOT like what you'd get if you tried to drill a hole using a Uni-Bit. There are very obvious "steps" in the taper as the majority of the material is being removed.
On the final pass of the program, the cutting head moves slower and gets rid of all of those steps in the part.....leaving a nice, uniform taper all the way to the other side.
As we approached midnight, we had all of the 3" slugs cut to length, squared-up, with a through hole, and two of the 10 had the completed taper finished. We also cut the 1.75" solid bar down to 10" lengths (these will be connect the tapered landing area of the rockslider to the visible outer portion of the rockslider that I've already built and hung on the truck.
Overall, it was VERY cool to see how tapers get made... I had never seen anything like that in person before and it was fun to watch the finish product reveal itself from a chunk of raw material (and TONS of metal chips)!!!!
-G
Should watch them get made while in a MILL and not a lathe.
