Hack up your Hot Rod to make this.

Pulled from Popular Mechanic January 1942

Hack up your worn out Model A and build this Sheet Metal brake!

 

badass

 

Maybe before the guy builds a sheet-metal brake he needs something better than a hacksaw to cut that crankshaft.

 

Cutting the crank with a hack saw is priceless,especially one of thoses wimpy grandpa hacksaws.But if time is cheap then a hacksaw works.

 

damn that is the coolest artical ever BAD ASS!! really cool!!

 

Thanks Von. Very cool......indeed.

 

Perhaps the Model A stuff could be replaced with something of no value from Japan?

 

Cool, but change Model A to ricer and were away.

 

Damn wildcat you beat me to it

 

That is freakin' hilarious!!!

 

I'd quote my signature to answer the above, but you might take me seriously...

 

I was worried when I clicked on the thread, but that is legit

 

I am thinking I should submit this for tech week.

 

Well I guess that would be OK if you just wanted to bend aluminum beer cans....

New favorite descriptive phrase:

"wimpy grandpa hacksaws"

 

That article was written back when men were men. The hacksaw may have seemed wimpy, but Grandpa wasn't.

 

i have a whole collection of popular mechanics dating back into the 1930 s i have them boxxed up to give away. but after seeing this article,i remember why i have kept them the last 30 years.

 

but then wouldn't you need metric sheet metal?

 

For those who don't know, Popular Mechanics recently posted all of their magazines on their website with a searchable database. It's really cool to see some of the old articles.

correction: it was popular science, but it's the same type of stuff from back then.

 

this is for the book. wonder how thick of metal it will handle.

 

I'm suprised that he wasn't using that old 3 bladed "Old Timer" pocket knife...you know the same one he cleaned out from under his nails with and then peeled an apple right after.

 

My grandfather did that and it wierded me out when I was a youngster. I saw him use that little brown and tan oldtimer to clean the corrosion off of battery terminals and then cut up his steak right after. There is no telling how many he went through. He was buried with one when he passed. I still have the one he gave me for Christmas when I was 6. I guess it wasn't so odd after all that he did that.
Sorry for the thread theft there. Cool article.

 

Think of how many could be made With a V8!

 

Twice as many......

 

Thank you, Thank you, I'll be here all week.....

 

We had the same Grampa?

 

They bought those type hacksaws cause they were cheap A proper hacksaw has a very rigid frame that'll tension the blade so it sings.Those wimpy grampa hacksaws are just a place to store a spare saw blade.

 

Remember, he's only cutting a ford crank. That hacksaw is a bit of overkill...

My mate has a workbench made from a model T chassis. He doesn't even realise what it is coz he's not a car guy.

Louie

 

So who is building one?

The generation that fought in WWII didn't need a special tool for everything they did. My dad used to make all kinds of neat stuff with a very minimal tool collection. These guys used their head to create solutions , not money. Simple is better, we all could learn something from this.
chuck

 

Cool....but what would be even better.....if they could figure
a way to turn an old sheet metal brake into a Model A Ford
instead of the other way around, they'd really be on to
something!!!

Mart3406
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Proof that in those days, porn was limted and there was no internet, let alone internet porn....

I did have to laugh at hacking the crank too