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Your Builds / Photo Gallery / Re: Tube Notcher
« on: September 14, 2020, 02:46:19 PM »
A few years ago I was giving serious thought to building a replacement chassis for my old front end dragster. After doing a bunch of research it look like the FED build would actually be three projects. (1) make a chassis jig, (2) cut the tube ends for near perfect fit and (3) finally assembling & welding the chassis. The chassis jigs mostly seemed overly complicated in order to assist in measuring and the fitting of the tubes. In the machine shop we referred to this as "file and fit at final assembly" (that is sarcasm).
That brings me back to the tube notching operation, in my mind I should be able to take a precise measurement and then cut the tube for a precise joint. In fact all the tubes could be precut from a detailed drawing, but that may be stretching a little bit. So my first project I’d like to share if there’s no objection is the building of a new type of tube notcher. After all we know the world needs another tube notcher.
That brings me back to the tube notching operation, in my mind I should be able to take a precise measurement and then cut the tube for a precise joint. In fact all the tubes could be precut from a detailed drawing, but that may be stretching a little bit. So my first project I’d like to share if there’s no objection is the building of a new type of tube notcher. After all we know the world needs another tube notcher.