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Absolutely love this build thread. Everything looks great, and your little notes a laRaised by Hamsters posted:Thought I: I should just take care of the brake light. Someone cleverer than I, might have done these two operations in the reverse order. Oh well. Are very relatable. Keep it up, we’re rooting for ya.
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Wiring is also a mess, especially knowing when you should do what for ease of build. You figure that out after you’ve done it, so next time it’ll go quick! There’s never a next time.
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Raised by Hamsters posted:
Easiest thing I can think of: buy a 5/8 steel pin from McMaster Carr, buy some square stock of aluminum, use a 5/8 end mill to cut a radius down the center of it. Use the two in a vise or a press to smoosh the aluminum strip into a 5/8 radius. Pros: dummy-proof, not super expensive. Will build muscle. Cons: you need to know someone with a mill, unless you can think of some other way to get a 5/8 radius down the center of some square stock. Lemme see if we have any extra poo poo laying around at work next week (I work in a machine shop!), we might actually have some square stock laying in a corner somewhere. Then I just would need some time during breaks to cut it. E: babyeatingpsychopath posted:For your upper edge, I think you'd need some kind of flashing or sealing surface. I wouldn't leave a factory edge, even one with sealant at the top. Not a bad idea! You’d need to be handy with an angle grinder, but that could work too. Note: I am not handy with an angle grinder and would not do that. I like my fingers. Rodenthar Drothman fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Mar 9, 2024 |
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Mar 9, 2024 18:42
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If we have the right aluminum bar stock laying around, I could see if I can heist 6” or so of if and just mill a 5/8 channel down the center of it to use as a form block of some sort and send it to you, would be a fun and easy bit of milling. Maybe would be best to mill the channel, then step over about 0.040” to give some room for the aluminum flat between the dowel and the block.
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Yeah, lemme sketch something and dm you when I get home. But full radius down with some extra space at the bottom and sides to accommodate the aluminum to be formed, so it would be 0.350 deep (ish) x 0.675ish wide with the full radius sides? Only if it’s the option you wanna go with, of course. E: and supposing we have stuff laying around. We have a lot of poo poo sitting around, figuring out what’s what is the deal. E2: ooooh corner round, right. It’ll be 350 into corner and 350 deep. With some flats on it appropriate for your smooshing method. Rodenthar Drothman fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Mar 9, 2024 23:49
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Eh, I'll at least put the drawings here. DM me if one of these is something you think would be useful - no 100% guarantee we have the tools sitting around, but I'm pretty sure we have at least one 1 1/4" ball end mill. We don't usually mill radii that big in this way, so I'll have to dig around. Also, actually drawing things forced me to realize how big of an idiot I am - while out and about yesterday I was thinking of a 5/8 diameter instead of a 5/8 radius. Big difference! That's why I have a whiteboard with me at work to draw things out before I do something dumb(er than usual). I was thinking of cutting a 6" bar and either of these two things: 1) For a half radius one you mill that half radius along one top edge, then flat mill off the corners of the bar so you can hold it flat in a vise to wail on it. 2) For the full radius, it's super easy, just mill that big honker straight through in a few passes. Half Radius  Full Radius 
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Been kinda putting around at work digging into cabinets occasionally, and naw. Biggest end mills we have are 1.000. Our manual machinist / toolmaker says we could throw that radius with a 1.000 somehow, which would be an interesting challenge on our little Bridgeport. Can’t free up enough time to program it out in mastercam where it would REALLY throw that radius perfectly, our CNCs are slammed. If we need to I think we could do it though. It’d just take longer.
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