Saturday and Sunday i built and tacked together the bottom frame. I even got a photo with me holding the completed bottom frame, which i'll put up when my dad emails me the picture.
Today i tackled the front frame. Which is a nightmare of a thing to build. Compound angle cuts, notching and bending tubing, making a jig and then crossing fingers when it all comes together. Guess what?? It worked. I would say first time around, but that would be a lie. I stuffed about 2 meters of material getting the compound angles etc correct. And trial and error on making jigs.
I also got motivated and went back after dinner this evening and it's now in the third dimension with the uprights and the top rails going on. Its amazing to see that being accurate pays dividends. With the top rails, they get fixed to the front frame and then rest along the top of one upright and but against the other upright. With these three points, there was only one upright which was out, and that was only by 1mm.
And as always, the trusty work dog is helping out.
Bottom rails before tacking. Also made a mistake on this, but it's now fixed. Was an easy fix too, sort of. At the front of the frame are the two parrallel members with the really sharp angle. I took the wrong dimension and had to remake these as i had cut them too short. It involved another hour and a half working at the milling machine to get those angles perfect.
Here you can see the blocks holding everthing in place. The two members i mentioned before are worng. If you look at the next picture the two new ones extend past the horizontal cross piece.
Ah the dreaded front frame. Looks simple from this angle, but it's bloody hard. I now know what not to do when it comes to fabricating one of these.
Front frame again. The two silver bits of metal clamped to the frame are there to ensure that it wasvertical and at the same height the whole way across. And it is!!
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