A few questions all rolled into one here I'm afraid, so hopefully materials and techniques is the right place??
I have a chevy pick up that I will be fitting a Honda rear seat into as it has 3 seat belts built into the seat itself.
I need to make a frame that the seat will bolt to using the factory seat fixings, the frame will be bolted to the floor using reinforced sections. Obviously as the seatbelts are integrated into the seat itself the seat needs to be very securely fixed to a frame and the car.
I was thinking of using tube and bending the tube around the perimeter of the seat, with another piece bent to the same shape, but inset by about 30mm with plates joining the two together which will act as the fixing points for the seat. (does that make sense?)
What tube should I use, bearing in mind id like to use one of the cheap machine mart type benders?
Also 1" tube and 1" pipe have different ODs so am getting confused what to use with the formers supplied with that type of bender?
Does 1" tube sound big enough? or is that too small? What wall thickness?
I have searched and it seems the cheap benders are not great for certain tubes but will work with others ( although pipe possibly?)
Thanks in advanced
Confused...
I have a chevy pick up that I will be fitting a Honda rear seat into as it has 3 seat belts built into the seat itself.
I need to make a frame that the seat will bolt to using the factory seat fixings, the frame will be bolted to the floor using reinforced sections. Obviously as the seatbelts are integrated into the seat itself the seat needs to be very securely fixed to a frame and the car.
I was thinking of using tube and bending the tube around the perimeter of the seat, with another piece bent to the same shape, but inset by about 30mm with plates joining the two together which will act as the fixing points for the seat. (does that make sense?)
What tube should I use, bearing in mind id like to use one of the cheap machine mart type benders?
Also 1" tube and 1" pipe have different ODs so am getting confused what to use with the formers supplied with that type of bender?
Does 1" tube sound big enough? or is that too small? What wall thickness?
I have searched and it seems the cheap benders are not great for certain tubes but will work with others ( although pipe possibly?)
Thanks in advanced
Confused...