Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
Reply |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
my most recent project
i wanted to tell y'all about a project that i've been working on for the
past few weeks. "tow brackets" for the front of my ford ranger pick up. (i'm not going to use them as tow brackets but as a "hard point" to hang a (removable) ladder rack on.) (and maybe also a "get-out-of-my-way" ram with spikes on it) first pic is of a commercially available tow bracket. costs somewhere around $350. i didn't want to spend that kind of money on it. i'm assuming it actually ended up costing more to build it myself in time and energy... but cost less in materials, and since i had the tools available (except i broke my hitachi jigsaw and treated myself to a new bosch jigsaw and i wanted to say to you guys as a "product review" i'm entirely pleased with it, it's a NICE jigsaw model 1590EVSK). well, so, first pic is the commercially available version. second pic is the back view of the copy i made, third pic is the front view. http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/bracket.JPG http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/bracketback.jpg http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/bracketfront.jpg i think they used 5/16" plate (or maybe even 1/2") on the main part but i wanted to use 1/4" so i made that "truncated pyramid" thing to reinforce the skinny part of the main plate. that gaping hole in their version is to go around a bulge in the front part of the truck frame and behind a bracket in the front bumper. i was pleased with the way mine turned out, i mean, they're not PERFECT, but hopefully strong enough to do what i want them to do. i bolted 'em on my truck a couple days ago. next is to make the ladder rack. (i wanna make the ladder rack look as if it was drawn up by the guy(s) who designed this model year ranger. no square straight lines or right angles but smooth flowing curves.) b.w. |
#2
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
my most recent project
Nice work. More pics needed of the ladder rack when done.
JR Dweller in the cellar William Wixon wrote: i wanted to tell y'all about a project that i've been working on for the past few weeks. "tow brackets" for the front of my ford ranger pick up. (i'm not going to use them as tow brackets but as a "hard point" to hang a (removable) ladder rack on.) (and maybe also a "get-out-of-my-way" ram with spikes on it) first pic is of a commercially available tow bracket. costs somewhere around $350. i didn't want to spend that kind of money on it. i'm assuming it actually ended up costing more to build it myself in time and energy... but cost less in materials, and since i had the tools available (except i broke my hitachi jigsaw and treated myself to a new bosch jigsaw and i wanted to say to you guys as a "product review" i'm entirely pleased with it, it's a NICE jigsaw model 1590EVSK). well, so, first pic is the commercially available version. second pic is the back view of the copy i made, third pic is the front view. http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/bracket.JPG http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/bracketback.jpg http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/bracketfront.jpg i think they used 5/16" plate (or maybe even 1/2") on the main part but i wanted to use 1/4" so i made that "truncated pyramid" thing to reinforce the skinny part of the main plate. that gaping hole in their version is to go around a bulge in the front part of the truck frame and behind a bracket in the front bumper. i was pleased with the way mine turned out, i mean, they're not PERFECT, but hopefully strong enough to do what i want them to do. i bolted 'em on my truck a couple days ago. next is to make the ladder rack. (i wanna make the ladder rack look as if it was drawn up by the guy(s) who designed this model year ranger. no square straight lines or right angles but smooth flowing curves.) b.w. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses -------------------------------------------------------------- Dependence is Vulnerability: -------------------------------------------------------------- "Open the Pod Bay Doors please, Hal" "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.." |
#3
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
my most recent project
Very nice! A lot of dimensions to get just-right. Bob
|
#4
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
my most recent project
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:25:38 GMT, "William Wixon"
wrote: i wanted to tell y'all about a project that i've been working on for the past few weeks. "tow brackets" for the front of my ford ranger pick up. (i'm not going to use them as tow brackets but as a "hard point" to hang a (removable) ladder rack on.) (and maybe also a "get-out-of-my-way" ram with spikes on it) first pic is of a commercially available tow bracket. costs somewhere around $350. i didn't want to spend that kind of money on it. i'm assuming it actually ended up costing more to build it myself in time and energy... but cost less in materials, and since i had the tools available (except i broke my hitachi jigsaw and treated myself to a new bosch jigsaw and i wanted to say to you guys as a "product review" i'm entirely pleased with it, it's a NICE jigsaw model 1590EVSK). well, so, first pic is the commercially available version. second pic is the back view of the copy i made, third pic is the front view. http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/bracket.JPG http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/bracketback.jpg http://www.frontiernet.net/~wwixon/bracketfront.jpg i think they used 5/16" plate (or maybe even 1/2") on the main part but i wanted to use 1/4" so i made that "truncated pyramid" thing to reinforce the skinny part of the main plate. that gaping hole in their version is to go around a bulge in the front part of the truck frame and behind a bracket in the front bumper. i was pleased with the way mine turned out, i mean, they're not PERFECT, but hopefully strong enough to do what i want them to do. i bolted 'em on my truck a couple days ago. next is to make the ladder rack. (i wanna make the ladder rack look as if it was drawn up by the guy(s) who designed this model year ranger. no square straight lines or right angles but smooth flowing curves.) b.w. Oh verry very very well done Sir! A masterful job!! Gunner |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
some recent work | Woodturning | |||
Most recent project - Media Storage Cabinet | Woodworking | |||
Recent Projects | Woodworking | |||
SOme recent Projects | Woodworking | |||
Recent Gloat | Woodworking |