Some proper metal fabricating work

[bmw156]

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=65793&page=1

check out this thread, 18 pages of wickedness.

some excellent techniques, and methods. well worth the read

[burgo]

i love epic build threads. cheers martin i "was" bored :)

[bmw156]

lol thats ok burgo. it just got me through a boring night around my friends house, win win

[Mike]

top stuff :)

So gotta get me a spot welder...

[L14MNP]

Bookmarked that one. :)

Anyone got the Quattro build that young kid was doing?

[Mike]

Thats defiently the work of a proper seasoned fabricator, not a garage lacky with a welder & grinder.

EDIT: Defienetly is, using the copper trick.

[bmw156]

yeh i read on there somewhere he has like 20 years experiance. look for the drill making bit, he makes a spot welding bit from a normal bit.

and the copper trick is wicked. he does a wicked trick later on. where he cuts a tube and wants to make the Dia bigger. so he cuts it, opens it up, then rolls a bit of copper to bridge the gap and welds a massive weld across the 10mm gap and the inside is perfectly round. quality

[L14MNP]

I use the 'copper trick' and I'm a reet n00b. lol

[Mike]

yeh i read on there somewhere he has like 20 years experiance. look for the drill making bit, he makes a spot welding bit from a normal bit.

and the copper trick is wicked. he does a wicked trick later on. where he cuts a tube and wants to make the Dia bigger. so he cuts it, opens it up, then rolls a bit of copper to bridge the gap and welds a massive weld across the 10mm gap and the inside is perfectly round. quality

With regards to the copper plate he uses, now you know why welding tips are made from cooper :thumb:

Ive only ever once seen a tube tapered like that by a proper old school tool room bloke. The guy that I spent some of my City & Guilds time with.

As for the drill/spot weld bit, you kinda get taught that if you do steel fab/engineering type courses.

Copper parts also work wonders for electrode tips in Spark Eroding machines.

[Pistol Pete]

Holy cow. That is top fab work. Would love to be able to do that sort of stuff!!!

[Count Vaux Alot]

love it! good find.

[Mike]

Damn proper loving that thread :) reminds me when i was an apparentice engineering in a proper old skool tool room!!

He's even got an Anvil vice lol not seen one of them for years!!

[blue_peg_16v]

that guy has skills

[Stuart]

I want to go a fettling lol

[Mike]

I want to go a fettling lol

Tell me about it....after reading upto page 10 i want to go out an play with Lee's loonaque now lol wont be quite a technical mind lol lol lol

[Stuart]

whats a DA ?

[Mike]

whats a DA ?

Disc linisher type thing. Has like velcro kinda stick on pads IIRC.

DA to me means like a car buffer thought so dont know lol

[Count Vaux Alot]

Dual Action sander - its the way it oscillates in two directions

[Stuart]

kinda like a random orbit sander?

[Count Vaux Alot]

yer very similar

[bmw156]

i think i might start making a collection of random bits of metal to use as drifts. and dollys.

always handy lol

[burgo]

tis an awesome thread. i picked up some tips :)

[nova_saloon]

:( sooo jelous, what skills

[Annie]

Thats a great thread amazing what you can do with somthing so rusty.

This is another I read yesterday.
http://forums.mantaclub.org/topic/18829-another-can-of-worms/

[rwaggers]

this is an awsome thread and will be good for when i have the misses over lol

[puss puss]

Jotted down a few bits for the nova lol awsome skills on there :)

[Jon_nova1]

And it makes me want to go out and buy proper metal working equipment like i used in my NVQ, rather than using random bits of pipe to bend saheet metal round lol

[Nova_Sean]

Anyone else wanna see him make a paper (read metal) airplane?

[ben doodar]

awesome skills there. thanks for linking the thread to us. love the idea of using copper blocks, and where he used it to open up that tube.
also the spot weld drill bit is a great tip.
hats off to him some real panel skills.

[Sturge]

kinda like a random orbit sander?

Pretty much exactly the same :)

Only difference I've ever picked up on is when people refer to DA's they're generally talking about air powered ones whereas random orbitals are the leccy ones joe public buy down Bodgeit&Quickfix

[supernovaxe]

he makes it look so simple....... ITS NOT lol