Bumper build

Building a bumper and sliders for someone so heres the pics so far

Started by making the rear step for it




After this I cut the bumper ends to the correct angle that I wanted for the design (60*)



Quick vid.




Pics again, cut bumper ends at 60* and slider ends at 45*








After this a good bit of engineers blue to mark out the holes that need cutting the box section for the CDS jacking points to be put into




Let it dry and with an engineers compass scratch the circle into the blue





Punch holes for marking out with chalk before cutting



Roughly cut holes for sliders and bumper with gas axe





Smooth off edges (ish) with round file




And now its ready to go onto the milling machine to use a 43mm bit to finish the hole off to a perfect circle allowing the tube to fit in nice and tight before I weld it up with the industrial bugger at the back

Cool. Who's letting you use their massive workshop! I'd be making loads of stuff!

Nice work, mate.

Good luck, never seen marking blue(engineers blue is a different thing) used to mark out for oxy!!

lookin good

nice work mate keep the pic's coming

chunkymunky said:

Cool. Who's letting you use their massive workshop! I'd be making loads of stuff!

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Uni mate over £2,000,000 worth of tools in there I reckon!

We've just gotten a new 5 axis laser cutter too at £350,000 to go with the CNC lathes and two 5 axis CNC milling machines!

Got a whole load of manual ones too, giant drills, 10k Lincoln Tig, ridiculous amounts of measuring equipment etc

Oh and grinding machines that work to a 10th of a millimetre!

DFNDR WP said:

Nice work, mate.

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Cheers

pressbrake said:

Good luck, never seen marking blue(engineers blue is a different thing) used to mark out for oxy!!

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haha my bad they're both blue anyway

Idea was to mark the holes with the blue, so I could punch the circle and then chalk it so we could see where the rough hole was for cutting with the Oxy.

After this I'll mark the outers of the hole as a box for where I'll drop the 43mm milling blade onto, holes are currently around 39-41mm so will be dead easy for the milling machine to take out now (was faster than constantly changing blades)

Would have used the plasma but its out of commission

basher79 said:

lookin good

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defender11069 said:

nice work mate keep the pic's coming

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Cheers guys will get more pics on monday, got three hours in which to mill and weld in a couple of the jacking points

Dr_evil said:

Uni mate over £2,000,000 worth of tools in there I reckon!

We've just gotten a new 5 axis laser cutter too at £350,000 to go with the CNC lathes and two 5 axis CNC milling machines!

Got a whole load of manual ones too, giant drills, 10k Lincoln Tig, ridiculous amounts of measuring equipment etc

Oh and grinding machines that work to a 10th of a millimetre!



Cheers

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all that tech and still no broom broom

thought it was mine! said:

all that tech and still no broom broom

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I don't use it for my car I work on that in the yard of the midgets house

Be careful as flame or laser cut edges knock out cutting edges.
Those painted spanners give me a flashback to being a student
ps do you mean the grinders work to 1 micron not a hundred

pressbrake said:

Be careful as flame or laser cut edges knock out cutting edges.
Those painted spanners give me a flashback to being a student
ps do you mean the grinders work to 1 micron not ten

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Finished with the flame now anyway but thanks for the warning


haha yeah painted but it does make them easy to spot when you put them down on a bench, and yeah typo, ridiculous tolerances on some of the newer machines!

Looks good mate

bencorkill said:

Looks good mate

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Cheers, making sliders for the series for the series in the next couple of weeks but they'll be slightly more suave

Turned and tapped inserts for fixing to the original trim mounting points, turned top hat jacking points rather than CDS inserts, tubular side step pieces instead of box section steps (still to do on the current ones) and then if I get some time I may engrave them a little

Dr_evil said:

Cheers, making sliders for the series for the series in the next couple of weeks but they'll be slightly more suave

Turned and tapped inserts for fixing to the original trim mounting points, turned top hat jacking points rather than CDS inserts, tubular side step pieces instead of box section steps (still to do on the current ones) and then if I get some time I may engrave them a little

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how about a nice cheap td5 disco heavy duty bumper with space for fog lights must be bespoke look stunning and very cheap

thought it was mine! said:

how about a nice cheap td5 disco heavy duty bumper with space for fog lights must be bespoke look stunning and very cheap

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Snigger How cheap is cheap

Can make anything really as long as you give me measurements and a design brief to plan something with

Dr_evil said:

Snigger How cheap is cheap

Can make anything really as long as you give me measurements and a design brief to plan something with

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that looks like a plan my man i will get drawing.Find my tape measure and see if i can claim on my dhss cheque for it

Lol don't forget current customers

chunkymunky said:

Lol don't forget current customers

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I know I'll get your brackets done up ready for Ann to bring down to you next time she makes a run

wing man comes first not what you no it's who you no