Isnt fabrication fun! But you need to find a friend with a mill. Or you could have rough cast that piece in half the time it took to hand file it. Any way good job!
looks good!! i could be wrong, but arent the limeworks drops billet?? either way both yours and the limeworks look shaaaweet!!!
Rough cast in half the time? So, carve a pattern, make the sand and all of the casting tools, crucible, box, etc. Build a fire hot enough to melt the bar he bought to cut it from, make the pour for the rough cast and... finish with a file? haha. Good thinking - that rules.
Whoever said gateway drug was right!! haha Remember every gold chain starts with the first link Good luck with the project
I cant type sarcasm anymore than you can read it. I suppose I could cast it in the time it took him to file it, but then again I have everything I need. Doing what he did by hand is some serious work, and i bet he has the blisters to prove it
Hand made parts carved out of solid hunks of metal are COOL. It's nice to have a part that no one else has. Canuck
looks great, when you make one on the mill next time,you'll be thinking, why did i hand file all of that? Aluminum is addictive, the dust travels to your brain and changes it ,causing you to want more. I have hundreds of different parts in my car made from it, and not one from a catalog.
Not this one, haha. The model A column diameter is 2" whereas the '40 ford column is 1 1/2" diameter. Also the stock column angle is different than what mine is. The drop is some random distance I thought looked good and cleared everything and was ergonomically viable. I do have access to a mill, and I didn't have any blisters from rubbing my tool. I do like to make things from aluminum, and I have been doing that for awhile.
It's a slippery slope once you start down the billett path. I see gold chains in your future... Just kiddin -It looks like a very nice job!
You did a great job duplicating a factory Ford part for the Model A which was available as a reproduction for many years. Yours appears to be just a tad longer than the Ford piece and looks great!
I couldn’t find an affordable decklid, so I made one from an old aluminum construction sign. I bent it up in the gap in my picnic table, putting my weight on it and peening along the stress points with a 3 pound sledge. Atta boy! Sometimes you have to improvise when you don't have a brake or ironworker! (The thread this came from is good reading!) I bent my ALUMINUM flat bar hood/grill trim using my 1-A ladder rungs. Hot Rods is about saying what if and trying it!
everybody has billit on their car,eventhough its not made of aluminum,its billit,and you'll never guess where its at!
boyd wouldn't be happy unless you bought it from him and it was made on one of his CNC machines, to put money in his pockets
inner and outer bearing race's to start,input and output shafts on the trans,pinion shafts and thats just elementary,watson!
Billet's one thing, hand-made very specialized pieces are another. Trad as a matter of fact. Well done and most impressive was the construction method. Looks good as well. Anyone in this game, sport, hobby, whatever you want to call it who doesn't take advantage of aluminum's properties is a touch lacking imo. I often wonder if those who complain about the billet thing or the dial 1-800 part buy any of their parts....
it's going to really depend on which definition of billet you go by. An ingot of raw material is by definition billet. Which would mean anything cast from them would be made of billet. So it's all billet. "[FONT=arial,helvetica]billet is simply a solid piece of material that is shaped into it's finished form by machining." Would be the more accepted definition which would lead us to things machined from a block of raw materials. Not a machined forging or casting. Though when car guys usually refer to billet they are talking about aftermarket accessories and not part of the original car. But then again I'm happy being Watson.[/FONT]
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