T-Top prototype...hillbilly style

[FusionKing]

FK,
looking awsome!!! If the pic is correct, looks like the crossmembers have a slight curve on them?? How did you bend that, since you just have the bender you just got??? I'm gonna finish up my pro-tools 105 bender in the next couple weeks, thanks to TS-OFFROAD and his help with me copying his bender stand.......
bert

I just made two 5 degree bends 16" apart and it came out pretty close to the tail. I decided to leave the nose flat
Get that bender going

[FusionKing]

So I made another bar and got it off the floor. Welded it up.



Then I sanded all the nicks and scratches out. Most of them came from my metal supplier
I also ground down the splice between the two hoops. I put a piece inside between them...I hope it doesn't come back to haunt me someday. I just thought it made it look better. Maybe if I throw enuff braces in it will keep it from being a problem.





View from the back.

[FusionKing]

Got my helper to jump in and help me finish the sanding so he could help me hang the canopy from the trusses with ratchet straps. Then I would be able to work by myself C. Wagner style...scratching my head

[welderdude402]

Boy!...Sure is a nice lookin machine in the right of the bottom picture!Sure wish I had one. the one before your last post

[Bert]

Boy!...Sure is a nice lookin machine in the right of the bottom picture!Sure wish I had one. the one before your last post

Yeah, but ya GOTTA love that cammo trailer

FK, thanks for the explantion about the crossbars!!! I see those bends in the new pics!!!!!!! TOTALLY AWSOME DUE!!!!!!!!
(Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventure)

[FusionKing]

O.K. fellas, here are some welds a little closer using the Dynasty 700.
As you can see I am not Engloid or K.B.!! These were made using the east-west fingertip controller and at the time it was so stiff it was effecting my stops.
The main reason I took this pic at the time was to show how the 3" oval tube looked when fitted to the 1 1/2" tubing perpendicular and level vs 10 degree incline.

[FusionKing]

Here is my high tech, latest thing out notcher!!




It is an old mid eighteen hundreds horizontal mill that someone converted from line-drive to a 115v motor with an old 3 speed tranny.
I traded a couple of old oxygen bottles for it about 15 years ago and never thought about just how useful it would become. I even had considered scrapping it at one time but kept it because the brand was my grandmothers maiden name...Garvin

[FusionKing]

So I have been back to head scratching, fitting and tacking.
My friend and I discussed how it would be cool to make bars for the front seat for handholds so I made these.





Pretty much the theme of this boat is NOT fishing but mainly pleasure boating with POWER so I am attempting to enhance any styling or lines on the boat without making my work the main focal point.
They debuted the boat last year with a fiberglass arch and it seemed dated and also with our lake being so ROUGH it was really hard on passengers with not having enuff places to get ahold of. It is my job to eliminate that problem altogether.

[wrenchnride247]

Love that notcher. Just don't let anybody get near the "business end" of it.


OSHA would have a field day with that machine. LOL

[FusionKing]

Love that notcher. Just don't let anybody get near the "business end" of it.


OSHA would have a field day with that machine. LOL

No doubt it is a "killer" set-up for sure. You can get shocked or cut or tangled up seperately or all at the same time!!

I googled it once and found a reference to one almost exactly like it from the same company that said 1860's...a bit before osha. Would that make that machine Great Great Great grandfathered in??