1st
April 2023 The frames steel was cut up and placed on a building board for a trial fit. Seeing that it fitted well on the 2ft x 1ft board I checked it on the electronic construction board and that too fitted well. As I do not have a surface plate big enough I will be buying a piece of mirror glass and set that on the build board as a make shift surface plate. I need to cut many more brackets from angle to make fixings for the frames in fact i need a total of 8. I also watched this video https://youtu.be/M2_TdwE2MRE |
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Well all
the pieces seems to fit in the right places so now will proceed to
drill the holes to fix the cylinder to the sides. |
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3rd
April 2023 Deciding the placement of the holes in the angle piece I decided that with a width of 17mm inside the angle that from the edge I should have a gap of 4mm then space the distance to the inner hope should be 9mm leaving 4mm to the inner face. Vertically with 20 to play with I would have the top holes 5mm down a gap of 10mm and that will then leave 5mm at the bottom ... The picture show a sample angle piece set on a white box and this clearly shows where the inside edge starts. The drilled holes will be almost exactly on the diagonals !! |
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8th
April 2023 From the drawings I worked out that scaling 31/2" to 5" is an increase of 42% so the dimensions on the plan were so increased. The photo shows the mounting piece covered in marking out blue. |
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In
this photo the 6 mounting points were marked out. more marking out
to be done but the pair of plate will be bolted together and then
drilled. |
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22nd
April 2023 The location of the punch positions was achieved by using an optical punch. |
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This is the
equipment I use. First spy out the location with a plastic view
piece which has a cross on the bottom end and then replace that
without moving the black holder with the metal punch. |
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All the
holes punched. |
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Preparing to drill pilot hole with 3mm drill for tapping into the cylinder block 4BA, the holes in the plates will then be opened up to 4BA clearance. | |||
Top row of
holes drilled and lower set filled with drilling easy !! |
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All holes
drilled. |
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On the back side the holes have had burrs removed. |