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[Kevinxkrazy]

Very impressive work

[dvallis]

Chopper installed. Bolted to the bench and bench tied in at 3 corners.



Concept for attaching tube frame to rolling chassis. 1" ID tube cut in half, welded to the 0.5" OD tube frame. Tabs will be held by bolts into the 1" OD rolling chassis tube.





Obviously I'm not using that tube. It's just some 1" ID drop laying around.

[dvallis]

Tested some new TIG tungsten. Turned out pretty good

[dvallis]

Frame tab test







We'll finish it off with a threaded marsin into the large tube, then bolt into that

[Northern]

Tested some new TIG tungsten. Turned out pretty good

Tungsten so good it creates a space-time paradox.

[dvallis]

Just seeing if you guys are actually reading this :-)

[dvallis]

Tack welded tabs holding the tube frame to chassis



Here they are before finish welding



Drilled each tab and the frame tube with 1/8" then quarter inch. Drilled the frame tube with 7/16" bit (technically should have been 23/64" but oh well) and installed 1/4-20 RivNuts and bolts.



It's solid. I'll do the other side then fab the final front brackets. They'll be a bit more complex given the geometry. Once that's done I'll clamp and tack weld the nose onto the quarters.

[dvallis]

Getting better at welding tabs on the tube



Final product before adding rivnuts to the whole thing. I'm really satisfied with the way everything is lining up. Nose mates nicely with the front quarters and everything sits on the chassis correctly.



Waiting for more 1/4-20 rivnuts and a 25/64 bit from Amazon.

[dvallis]

Nose tabs



Welding prep. Yes, really



TIG welding is great



We're gonna need a bigger boat (i.e. I need a bigger welding table)

[dvallis]

Front end mostly complete. Talking to a shop about a bigger welding table tomorrow.