BB Bonneville Bugeye

[Cajun Kid]

HS,,, LOOKING GOOD

Charles

[hotschue]

Now that I have the nose cone done, I need front wheels to align wheel opening through base of cone.  As it happened they were finished this week, took six months to make it happen, timing is everything.  After three wheel vendors let me down I made my own.... Did a little prep work on rear body, tonnue cover roughed in, then remount to frame.  Next week will fab aluminum body panels should look like a complete car soooooon....keep you posted!

[hotschue]

Started to mount lower nose cone, need to make a couple of steel plates then finalize.  Lower cone will be bolted to the chassis. Will get a start on the upper shell mount tomorrow, attachment by dzuz fasteners, might take a little more finess to make it all fit......and more fiberglass ugh!!!...tired of fiberglass!

[Milwaukee Midget]

Don't worry about the glass, Udo - looks like you've got a handle on it.  This is turning out REALLY nice!

[hotschue]

Just a little update......Sunday.....made some wooden bucks for alum panels, took some measurements and will start panel fab tomorrow.....will use some heavy rosin paper and make template see how that works.....if not plan B, C, etc.....a pic of where I am.

[hotschue]

Sunday....Big day at the garage......After paper templates, transferred to alum., cut the material, it was time to form the radius.  Since the body has a top and side taper the alum was slightly irregular......Couldn't find a shop with the proper roller to do the radius bends, it was off to  Home Depot, Harbor freight and the junk pile to build my own.....spent a full day building it....spent all day Sat. doing test bends to build up the courage to commit to the final bend.  Took about 4 hours this morning with the crew and we achieved SUCCESS.....Another mildstone.  Movin on!!!!

[Cajun Kid]

Awesome work,,, nice sheet bender ( PVC ?? )

[Peter Jack]

Congratulations on a job well done. Really like the bender!

Pete

[SPARKY]

Be sure and post your bender & buck picts in the tools and how to sections---great job..

[Milwaukee Midget]

Brilliant!  Looking at the reflections of the lights, it looks spot-on straight.  I agree with Sparky - this is a must-see how-to.

[sabat]

Fantastic build diary, good luck this year.

[desotoman]

Love the ingenuity of the bender. What do you have in the center of the PVC, square tubing?

Tom G.

[hotschue]

Thanks guys....... Yes, it's PVC... 6" pipe with 4" pipe inside with heavy wall alum sq. to prevent deflection in the middle of the tube and provide  a point to connect bar clamps.  It took approximately 8 pulls per radius to achieve the proper angle.....Will start with dzus this week....

[Glen]

Where is the actual pulling located. It looks like the pipe clamps are for holding only. I also see the clamp pipes go thru the table but are not attached to anything. Very interesting and neat piece of backyard engineering.

 

[Cajun Kid]

It looks like you don't have a pull handle,, looks like you crank down and press the roller down on the sheet between the V boards, thereby making the radius in the sheet ??  Very creative, more like a press concept,, if I am seeing in correctly ??


Or the bords the alum sheet are resting on are hinged and you pull them up as you would on a bending brake, sheet then forming around the PVC,,,,

Either way would work?

Which is it ?

Charles