mike mcs repair
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chugiak AK
Figured I'd start a fresh thread to follow layout and forming as I make some Kydex interior Panels for PA-12.
More pictures to follow along with at my Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/mike.skup/KydexInteriorForming#
this is 0.060",(not sure why I said that was too thick in other thread...)(no .040" available, and here now and he is not sure he can find some soon)
most of steps are cold forming, then carefully coming back with the torch to get rid of the "whitening" don't over do it or it will make it get glossy.....
the roller is from Williams low buck tools http://www.lowbucktools.com/prod.html (has spent most of the last 20 years under a bench, till I got this new rolling cart set up) had also seen them at harbor freight.....
the only heated forming I do is for the lap seam joint, kinda hard to see but the lap seam is made to have lip on over lap piece that will fit down into the groove, and the piece shown will have tinnerman nutplates.... hard to describe, by end it will make sense... I didn't want any edges that could get caught loading and unloading cargo....
kinda hard to visualize, but the next piece sits flush in here, with a ~1/8" lip going down into round grove... nutplates to be put on back of the piece shown below.... checkout the dies I made to form this seam at link above
More pictures to follow along with at my Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/mike.skup/KydexInteriorForming#
this is 0.060",(not sure why I said that was too thick in other thread...)(no .040" available, and here now and he is not sure he can find some soon)
most of steps are cold forming, then carefully coming back with the torch to get rid of the "whitening" don't over do it or it will make it get glossy.....
the roller is from Williams low buck tools http://www.lowbucktools.com/prod.html (has spent most of the last 20 years under a bench, till I got this new rolling cart set up) had also seen them at harbor freight.....
the only heated forming I do is for the lap seam joint, kinda hard to see but the lap seam is made to have lip on over lap piece that will fit down into the groove, and the piece shown will have tinnerman nutplates.... hard to describe, by end it will make sense... I didn't want any edges that could get caught loading and unloading cargo....
kinda hard to visualize, but the next piece sits flush in here, with a ~1/8" lip going down into round grove... nutplates to be put on back of the piece shown below.... checkout the dies I made to form this seam at link above