Came across on my YT feed....I have a fair bit of crushed frame rails to tackle in the future, and it looks like an alternative to drilling them out straightening them off-chassis, and welding them back on. Am a bit sceptical about stretching (and hence weakening) them though Any thoughts?
Th frame rail he beat the hell out was virtually a uniform U section - so easy to just cut off and fabricate a new one
Always a big no no, Striking hammer faces together, One of the first things bought when I was an apprentice!!
We were told not to at school, worst thing the teacher could have done! My bad, they're bodywork hammers so being put to their correct use working on the body of a vehicle to get a workout!
think id have cut the bottom off and made a new one , all down to how well the spots stood the abuse , then how well the floor welds back in , wonder what the VBRA view on that method would be , Im guessing the damage wasnt recorded and the insurance company were not involved , probably an insurance write off .
ive still a scar on my left arm I got when I was about 12 putting a handle on an axe , the hammer I was knocking one of the two metal wedges in with , after the wooden one hit the axe head , which shouldnt have had a high temper at that point but did , splitting off a small shard and it sliced my arm on the way past , it bled for ages , never again have I let that happen. But out of curiosity Myth Busters did a thing on it to see what they could get to happen hitting hammers with hammers , from memory not a whole lot happened , Im sure its on you tube some where.
cutting into a perfectly good floor to staighten out an easily fabricated part makes no sense. now he has a crappy floor and crappy frame rail...
18 months later - How to replace sections of floor pan. Actually, I just went on his channel, he's cut the rails out now anyway and replaced them with RHS.
The title says 1999 Saleen which google suggests is a S281 or S351 (engine dependent) It's basically a late 90's Ford Mustang.
My MX5 rails are worse, has a speed bump shaped indent behind each front wheel where it landed. Then what looks like crispy bacon surface profile as it juddered along the length of them. I thought about replacing them but they aren't rusty at all, which means they're at the bottom of the list. I'll make sure to cut the floor pan open and hit them with RHS and 2x4 instead.
Apprenticeships? Didn't they disappear with professional standards? ....tho what am I saying, I'm the one watching videos on YouTube looking for tips...at least I have some engineering training from BT
You'd be surprised what you can learn by watching Youtube fabricators, but then you have to wade through hours of gratuitous TIG weave, rainbow oxide film and stacked dimes to find someone who actually tells you something useful.
I finished my five apprenticeship in 1965, As a fitter and turner, Great place to train at the Dorman Long steel works, Very dirty and noisy and very old fashioned equipment, But they didn't buy any spares, Every thing was made in-house, Blacksmiths shop had about ten steam hammers, All shafts of all sizes were forged in to shape then turned to size, All gear wheels were hobbed and flame hardened, Plain bearings both brass and white metal were cast and machined, Reall enjoyed, When the only safety was to hang a wooded "danger" board on the switch gear, with no fuses pulled,Some did get killed over the years, people thinking the job was finished, remove the board and switch on. It happened to a chap i worked with while he worked on a overhead trod wheels,
