AC 3000 Series 427 build

[ScratchBuilder]

Busy weekend. It was clear it would be hard to save the ladder frame and the body birdcage so I decided to scrap the ladder and that worked out pretty well. Nick mentioned he may send a new ladder so that helped make the decision too, if not I will build a ladder.

It took a weekend to remove the towers with the swazall and took half a day to cut everything out with the plasma cutter.

Hypertherm 45 is new favorite tool! Can't believe how quick n easy it was and I was able to do the cutting with the body attached:









Cut out ladder frame on left, that will be replaced:

[ScratchBuilder]

Bob,

I plan to add flanges to the end of tube that goes through the box so that it can be bolted in mainly due to the tube being shorter after I cut it out. I could also replace the tube but that seemed like a lot of work.



SB