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Home Made Swingout
I know that there are a few people on here that have already seen my thread on the Blue Room, But i thought that I'd throw it on here and see what everyone thought of it so far! Just a little background, I go to Monte Vista High School here in Danville and I'm taking an engineering course. Each semester we have to engineer something that moves and would benefit us in some way. So this is my project for first semester thus far! For second semester i plan on making my own half doors. With that, I'd love it if you all gave it a peek and please enjoy!
http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/4x4-off-road-tech/156717-best...
P.S. My name on the Blue Room is Foxhead so i am the op of the thread
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Permalink Reply by Cowboy on
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If you don't get an "A" for this project. We will get a convoy of "rev limited" FJ's doing donuts around your school!
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Permalink Reply by The Orca on
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Thanks! If there's enough interest I will make a few more, Maybe that could be my summer job!
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Permalink Reply by Maximus (Max) on
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definitely looks like a solid piece of work sorry for hijacking your thread! once completed i would like to see it in person and as others have said maybe make some for other FJ homies! haha
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Thanks! And it's all good! I'm trying to figure out a way logistically to make some more to sell over the summer once I have more time, but I don't know whether or not it's going to work out. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will!
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If you do move forward on that and need alot of steel cut out of sheets. Maybe John "Boztec" could give you a fair price. Unless you have access to a water jet. Of course it would have to cleared with him first.
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Oh, thank you very much for that idea! As of now, I can get metal and everything at a good price, it's just cutting everything that takes time because all I have to use is a pneumatic pistol grip style thing with a cutting wheel on the end. So if I had access to a water jet, I could bang these out really fast!
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Permalink Reply by Steve Hope on
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Water cutting is costly. Plasma cutting is much cheaper, and very clean. Plus the East Bay is full of shops with plasma tables
.I am a certified welder in Sheet Metal Workers LU 104 and would suggest , instead of solid wire welding, try dual-shield flux-core ie 0.045 inch Lincoln Ultra-Core wire with a 75/25 gas mixture, ( Argon and CO2 , ie BlueShield 8,) to get extra penetration and a smooth weld profile. Has a very light, easy to remove slag after deposition It is made for structural purposes. Another structural wire which requires no gas, is NR 232, but it does not look as clean as dual-shield, looks like an E7018 electrode weld.. I think you would be happy with dual-shield, E70T-1 run DCEP.
Looking great though, would love to see the finished article. And as someone pointed out, powder coat it!!.
Steve Hope
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Ok I will for sure look into that. Thanks for the tips, much appreciated. The welder that I'm using is from my dad's for so I didn't have to pay for it or any wire or anything like that so I can't really complain, I'm just thankful that I have the setup I do! And ya, I figured that I put this much work into it already, I much as well spend the extra coin and protect all that effort with powder coat!
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Permalink Reply by Chance Hokanson(Califabrication) on
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Hey Steve! I didn't know you were a welder, I think i met you at the install day up in Placerville. I work for a structural welding shop in Sacramento. What type of sheet metal work do you do down there?
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