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Very nice. Wish you were around to help me build an exo, I always end up screwing up bends so I haven't built one yet.
Nice work, I like the frenching it into the fender. Oh and did you happen to tell your friend that he was putting this cage on a little bit too late?
Nice love the way its truing out
If you mess up a bend. Do you cut and turn it and reweld? What's your thoughts on doing that? Great work as always.
What kind of bender are you using pumkintoy? Jd2?
Are the spots its sanded clean the spotd where you cut and rewelded? That piece coming from the rear hoop, all the way down the fender, is a pretty crazy bend.Abouts how long do you make your inner sleeve? Sorry to hijack your thread, but its obvious your handy with a bender. I have the exact same one also
Somtimes I do have to cut and splice something just because its faster and easier than re-doing an entire piece that may already have multiple bends in it. My thoughts are that splicing is fine if you do it properly. always sleeve the inside of the tube with another piece of tube. Before you put the two halves back together with the sleeve inside, make sure you drill a few holes through each half of the tube so you can plug weld the tube to your inner sleeve. If you do not sleeve it and you just butt-weld it back together, chances are pretty high that it will just snap at the weld when you roll over or run into something with the bumper.
If its prepared right, it wont snap, with no inner tube. Just bevel to a knife edge and weld it.
Extra material needed, more cost to find the right tube, and if you dont prepare that right, its still going to fail. You might as well do it right, and not need the inner sleeve. With a bevel that should be done in both cases it will be a good weld. with a sleeve you have extra welding to be done costing more in time, welding supplies and sanding to finish
Wow someone is a little sensitive. Im just pointing out other ways to do things. usually a better way. I do make valid points about time, cost, extra material and cost needed. When its really not.
Well with a properly beveled joint, it wont fail at the weld. Because you get 100% pen, and the filler metal is stronger then the base metal .Want me to post up a picture of all the different classes I finished at welding college, or 5 or 6 certs I have in structural and bridge ? Thats in stick, mig, submerged act, stainless, aluminum
I'd take an inner sleeve at a joint over a beveled joint anyday, and yes, the smartass comments are extremely annoying.... Nice work pumkin, you truly do some outstanding work! BTW, which die do you use in your bender?
dont talk to me anymore, this isnt structural steel and bridge building
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