Mike Jadud
St Louis P26
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What you see here are a series of well designed hinge diagrams
As you can see this is a very complicated set of hinges, well it is complicated to me.
So the final result has come to this, after getting a couple of very scary quotes Mike had the Hinge Brackets cut out of 3/8" thick steel by water jet cutting
And now has a pile of neatly cut but slightly rusty hinge brackets, let the fabrication begin !!
Here
is a mockup of an end assembly. The 1"
DOM tube runs between the end assemblies.
It is going to take a lot of work to get the
mill scale off the 3/8" steel.
I have already tried my 4" angle grinder with 36 and 80 grit
. I also tried my DA sander. Each did a little, but not enough. In hindsight,
I should have had the steel plate sand blasted clean before doing all the cutting.
The 1/4" is not as bad. I cleans up easily.
I have already tried my 4" angle grinder with 36 and 80 grit
. I also tried my DA sander. Each did a little, but not enough. In hindsight,
I should have had the steel plate sand blasted clean before doing all the cutting.
The 1/4" is not as bad. I cleans up easily.