Some thin stuff

[TubularFab]

These brackets were made out of what some of my previous coworkers and I call "O" gauge - as in "OH too thin". Actually, the bottom plate was thick 20 gauge and the top plate was 24ga. Unfortunately the bottom plate was not bent correctly leaving excess material on one of the bent up legs and not enough on the opposite side. This left a gap of about 3/16" at the one end of the angled part! That gap was fun to weld up...

The weld settings:
GTAW DCEN
pure argon @ 15 CFH
1/16" 2% thoriated tungsten
max of 20 amps

The part is a bulkhead of a race car chassis - connects the front subframe (engine and suspension) to the chassis. There were matching left and right side pieces.

[comp]

cool ,i'd like to see more

[zapster]

Nice work!

You get all the fun jobs..


...zap!

[spiral-cut-bevel]

Nice design....I like it

[ZTFab]

Nice work Jason.

Are these production pieces as well or one-off?

- Paul