scratch build

[PDUB]

Awesome work! We appreciate you sharing... keep the photos coming.

[MAStuart]

I have been busy building door hinges for my coupe. They are build according to specs of the plans. The plans don't specifiy anything about welding. I have spent alot of time looking on club cobra and elsewhere on the internet trying to find detailed pictures of the original daytona coupe hinges. My question is, how were they welded, not the process but how were they welded as far as the curved plate. Were they welded completely around it or did they skip around similar to what I have shown in the picture?
Thanks in advance. Later I will try to post some pictures of the process I went thru to build these hinges. Mark

[MAStuart]

To make the hinge I needed to bend some 1/2 inch tubing. I wanted them to be all the same. I have a diacro hand bender but no 1/2 inch die with 3 1/2 center radius. I turned a blank on the lathe and finished it in the mill on a rotary table I also made a follow bar.





Here they are with a tube blank mounted on the bender



Tubing blanks all bent and they all came out nice



Next Imade a jig from scrap to cut them all to the same length



The same jig in the mill to cope the other end



Another jig made from scrap to hold the end tube for welding



Here it is all ready to weld.



Thats all for now .......... Mark

[MAStuart]

After all the pivot tubes welding was done I needed to cope the cross tubes .I put them in the mill vice and milled one end on each tube. I then clamped a stop to the table. Now it is easy to cope the other end to the right length and have the copes line up.



Now it is time to clamp all the parts together. Back to the scrap box and some vicegrips and I came up with this.



After welding



I then sheared some 18 gage to size and ran them thru my slip roller . Here they are after welding to the hinge.



I still need to know if these were welded like this or should they have a weld all the way around. Thats all for now. Mark

[jolsen42]

All I can say is WOW. You scratch builders are amazing.

John O