Friday, October 18, 2013

Front bracing member jig built

Today we built a jig for our front bracing memebers. We reused the design from the front top plane jig to build these. Our jig basically consists of two boards attached with wooden blocks along its center and two blocks with slots milled in them to hold the metal tubing.


We have also discovered a way to help align our endmill and tubing when fishmouthing. The flutes on the endmill tends to distort the size of the endmill, so we wrapped a piece of paper around the endmill to give it a more smooth shape. We can then align this with our scale fishmouth cut diagrams to increase our fishmouth accuracy.


In addition to building the jigs for the front bracing members, we have also redone the right engine side member. The back of the car is now ready to be tack welded.

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