Technical TIE ME KANGAROO DOWN SPORT

No Chuck Berry just recorded...

 

Marty, the truck is looking good!!

I was transporting a differential in one of my trucks a few years back, I thought it was heavy enough to sit still for the ride home. Wrong. I turned a corner the rear end rolled over and caved in one of the inner fenders.

Oak is tough to router with the grain. Against the grain the router holds a straight line easier. One sneeze and you are buying more wood.

I did pick SS for a reason. The Zinc ones were cheaper but these ought to clean up real nice.

Kind words buddy, but it takes me twice as long to accomplish anything, mainly because I have to repeat steps that I screwed up. Like that right side door that is getting painted...again! You know what they say, "if at first you don't succeed you may want to hire a professional"

 

You asked.

 

Zinc would look like shit in 5 minutes, strictly for indoor use.
Speaking of routers, I put off buying one for well, decades, and finally had to get one about 8 years ago. Man, so useful! I have used it way more than I ever expected to. If you make a pattern fence for the guide wheel to follow it will allow the tool to cut only within the limits you want and it works out neater than free handing it. Takes more time, but eliminates the stress and any fuck ups.

 

I did exactly the same on a wooden deck trailer [I prefer the flush mounted look]
To make it "pretty" use zinc plated button head cap screws

On the trailer I had plates underneath to spread the load AND I cut some small pieces of tubing as "crush tubes" for the bolt holes through the wood.
Wood expands and shrinks with water content so the crush tubes allows for constant torque on the bolts

@Harv
In NZ we had a version of the song called "Tie me casserole down sport" [this was in reference to the 1981 Australian meat export scandal]
There were jokes-a-plenty about "Roo Burgers" at Maccas.

 

Same thing I heard about big macs....

 

He should for this "Crime against humanity"

 

Yes, that would have made that job a lot easier than the free hand method. It was terrifying!

Yeah, these came with a stainless steel plate that goes below the board to reinforce the wood.

 

For a post closer to Billy's original intent, attached below is a similar project I tried for the rear cargo compartment board in my avatar. The "ring to lift the board up" in the centre is similar to Billy's tie-down fitting, recessed flush. The dzus fasteners (one in each corner - you can see one to the right) to hold the board down were less of a success. The marine plywood board was simply too thick for the longest available dzus fastener. They worked nicely (just) when it was a bare board, but the design was not so great once the carpet was installed. Lots of carpet shaving/trimming and dzus spring bending made it work in the end.



For the curious, the block is a GM Holden grey motor ('48-63). Taken out from 138ci to 155ci and crank girdled, and going into my FED project.

Cheers,
Harv

 

Nice job on the wood. And thanks for the earworms. Thank god I have never heard the 3rd song and hopefully never will...