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Ryoken's 89 Crew Cab Tubebed build... aka Mutt....

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eh, I generally run those at a lower rpm, but whatev's.. if it works ok, have at it.. :D
 
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and here's the beginning of the last component.... it'll be boxed on the top 2 sides...

any water that may go in the square hole will go out the opening at the lower right, behind the "ramp"...





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got a late start today, so hopefully I can finish up tomorrow... just in time for my dies to get here tues... start on that 1.5" come weds...
 
Ah the vision comes to life. I was curious at first how the latch would grab the great pyramids but now I see theyre the stops. Are you going to use any sort of rubber stopper?
 
no.. I may put a thin strip of weatherstrip under the triangacube, or maybe some of that white umphwee sh*t or whatever it's called... but it's technically being set up for no gap for now...
 
Thou will scuff thy paint no? Ive seen stick on foam type stuff before that compresses to almost nothing and will avoid the paint vs paint contact. Just food for thought.
 
right, that's what I'm talking about... I have a roll downstairs...
 
I'm really not worried about it all, or even scratched paint, it is a work truck afterall.. I expect to touch things up now and than.. when the gate is all the way down, it's metal to metal on the handrail and lower tube already...

the gate has enough resistance that it's not floppy loose... the more it get's used, the looser it'll get, but it'll be awhile before you unlatch it and it just free falls to the bottom..

and I am setting it up to be tight when the latches catch.. if it became an issue and I do decide to add something, I'll actually remove some material from the bottom of the stops.. that was another reason I made the bottoms 3/8..

when I get finished tomorrow hopefully, I'll do a vid of the removal/install and latching operation..
 
ryoken said:
for the CK5 record... took me about 4 hr's to make 2 of those.. and I still need to weld the nuts on the inside... 5 individual pieces each...






the things I do......................... :doah: :haha:
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You really like rounded edges, they look nice! I would of left them welded corners, or start with some rect tube and then weld two angle plates on it.

Although I am slow like you, some people say I should sell my fab stuff, I say no, at the rate I work I would make $2 an hour!
 
the dimensions didn't fit any rect stuff I had around... it's just a way cleaner look on an external 90 IMO... as long as you can get to the inside to lay a bead.. plus it really isn't difficult to shape on that belt table once the piece is burned in, that's the easy/fun part..

on internal 90's I leave all my welds, like on the triangacube..


I actually don't consider myself slow at all, I'll work circles around most people I've ever met. I'm certainly not when it comes to wrenching at work and such... it's just the processes on these projects sometimes take time... from templating, to cutting out pieces, to shaping/fitting/tacking, burn, grind and shape.. you fock one step up, too bad, and the part/time is garbage...

just cutting out the separate pieces takes time, initially I was plasma-ing them and grind down to final shape, but swapped over to a 3" cutoff in the diegrinder cuz it ended up being faster cutting them right to size, a fair bit slower than the plasma process, and just touch em up with a grinder instead....

but yeah, not like you can sell anything I make here at a profit... :doah: :haha:
 
I didn't mean you were slow at what you are doing, I meant you take the time to make everything perfectly the way you want it which takes a lot of time. So to sell stuff the labor cost would either be sky high, or you would make $2 an hour. I like your attention to detail.
 
that post reminds me that I really need a new 4 1/2" grinder... blew up the old one and could really use a bigger cutoff setup than the 3's......

I'll run 7"ers in the big Makita buffer/grinder, but that gets a little hairy and only break it out when I really need to..
 
folkenheath said:
I didn't mean you were slow at what you are doing, I meant you take the time to make everything perfectly the way you want it which takes a lot of time. .
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thanks.. yeah, I get an idea in my skull on how I want something to look and will do my best to get it there, even if I have sit at the workbench for hr's toiling like a troll.... :doah: :haha:

I think it's also an anti-work thing... I mean everything has to work perfectly on jobs, but sometimes your not putting out those little "attention to detail" things that make it the most, perfect, best way you think it could be done, due to actually being profitable..... :haha:

especially bodywork/fiberglass stuff, or component cleanup/coatings, etc...

I'm sure you run across that daily...
 
WOW! That works way too smooth:bow:

I assume the bottom portion of the "latch box" is open for debris and water to escape?
 
GWeakland620 said:
WOW! That works way too smooth:bow:

I assume the bottom portion of the "latch box" is open for debris and water to escape?
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yup, correct... here's what the underside of that ramp looks like.....



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and thanks :D, I'm VERY pleased with how it's working out.. and damn glad I'm getting this done now...

should be finished by noon tomorrow... just in time for brown santa to drop off my dies...
 
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