I have, until now, bent my chassis with a bit of 4 x 2 on my workbench in my garage. But in contemplating my latest build which calls for a 65cm (2'6") wide chassis, I have been pondering how to get a cleaner bend. The cheap Chinese Junk doesn't quite engender my complete confidence.
So feeling in an experimental mood I took all of about 6 hours (including driving around to buy the materials I needed; $8 worth of 2nd-hand 5cm x 5cm (2 x 2) angle iron, a couple of brass hinges ($20), and about $7 worth of bolts) to come up with this.
I tested it on a couple of short pieces and it seems to hold out okay. I'll work up to something more ambitious tomorrow and report back on the results.
(Oops! - News Flash - sitting down to write this, we just had a wee shake-up here (I thought about 5.5 on the MM scale, but it was only 4.1 - Aw Shucks, but the epicentre was all of about 4km away - Hope it doesn't happen again tomorrow when I am testing out my new jig - what the heck? it'd give me the perfect excuse if it turned out all crooked 8-)
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/latest.html
FWIW This page will quickly become outdated)
So feeling in an experimental mood I took all of about 6 hours (including driving around to buy the materials I needed; $8 worth of 2nd-hand 5cm x 5cm (2 x 2) angle iron, a couple of brass hinges ($20), and about $7 worth of bolts) to come up with this.
I tested it on a couple of short pieces and it seems to hold out okay. I'll work up to something more ambitious tomorrow and report back on the results.
(Oops! - News Flash - sitting down to write this, we just had a wee shake-up here (I thought about 5.5 on the MM scale, but it was only 4.1 - Aw Shucks, but the epicentre was all of about 4km away - Hope it doesn't happen again tomorrow when I am testing out my new jig - what the heck? it'd give me the perfect excuse if it turned out all crooked 8-)
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/latest.html
FWIW This page will quickly become outdated)
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