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gofast said:
Fun - will anyone get the chance to build one?
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Not this year. Next year I am going to expand this single project into an entire design and fabrication unit. We have a couple local fab shops that are willing to give tours and do demos on basic welding and tube bending techniques. We may turn it into a competition and then actually build the winner. None of it is set in stone yet. I'm just tossing ideas around at this point.
 
even if there's not a lot of comment, I'm impressed with where these designs have gone. Its not easy to conceptualize and also take practical engineering into account, plus add the coolness factor.

Hope to see real ones built from this and count me in as a judge next year.
 
gofast said:
even if there's not a lot of comment, I'm impressed with where these designs have gone. Its not easy to conceptualize and also take practical engineering into account, plus add the coolness factor.

Hope to see real ones built from this and count me in as a judge next year.
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Sounds like a plan
 
Anyone know what bumper this is? Not an Ironman or an ARB as far as I can tell.

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Doesn't look like my Ironman Deluxe.

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I love this one! Just a few and very little mods and this would be amazing :bounce2::bounce::bounce2::clap::clap::clap:

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bhicks said:
It will need to have either a receiver or winch mount and d-rings or shackle mounts. Beyond that it's up to them. I also tasked them with a budget of $500 which will be quite the challenge. Thanks in advance for the help.
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Here's mine, both receiver hitch and D-rings, 1.75" DOM .120 wall tubing, cant remember the thickness of the center section its square tube.

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jrmudder84 said:
I love this one! Just a few and very little mods and this would be amazing :bounce2::bounce::bounce2::clap::clap::clap:
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It's pretty good when you consider a 14 year old who just started working in CAD designed it. I plan to do this project again this year on 1/16 die cast replicas of a few cars. That way we can print their bumpers on my 3-D printer and actually do test fitting. I didn't have the printer last year when we did this project so that wasn't an option.
 
bhicks said:
It's pretty good when you consider a 14 year old who just started working in CAD designed it. I plan to do this project again this year on 1/16 die cast replicas of a few cars. That way we can print their bumpers on my 3-D printer and actually do test fitting. I didn't have the printer last year when we did this project so that wasn't an option.
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That's what's up. I like this one because no one has it good angles. Sounds like you have a sweet plan worked out. This sound be fun.

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You're one rad teacher, hats off to molding the future fabricators! Didn't see anything about a thought I have, and that is I have a short bus and love it. The only thing I don't like is the lack of protection for the filter dryer. Maybe toss that at them as well? Keep it up kids, love the work so far!
 
I forgot about this old thread. We actually did the bumper project again last year. I should have updated this thread with the new designs the kids made. We are doing the project again this year but to my new 100 series. I will try to remember posting the kids designs here. We have a tube bender in the classroom and a couple small welders. We also have a huge line a 3D printers available to us to print all types of stuff in all types of materials. When I retire a machine from my 3D printing production line at home I donate it the school. The kids learn to do the repairs on the machines and then get to use it in the classroom. I think I have 11 or 12 machines running student projects now in my classroom. My machcines are beat to hell from a couple years of 24/7 abuse but the kids don't mind. They actually enjoy working on the used machines and doing upgrades and repairs. Good learning tool and I get a little more use out of the machines before they go to the dumpster.
 
gofast, I am jealous of your bumper and your awesome skinny snow tires.

bhicks, student work is not bad at all :hillbilly:
 
bhicks said:
This is gonna be an odd request, but here we go. I have been in the process of designing and building my front and rear bumpers. The rear is all done and installed and I'm now working on the front. I am a mechanical engineering teacher at a high school. I gave my students the task to do structural load testing on the bumpers, frame, and receiver mounts in CAD to see what type of load pull they could handle. In the process some got excited about the idea of designing something like it. In the past they get to choose from a list of challenges for their final, so I decided this year I would add the FJ80 bumper as one of those options. I start this project on Monday. Here's where you guys come in. I need links to any co. websites that sell aftermarket front bumpers. I know Slee, metal tech, arb, and a few others make them. If you have a custom one off front bumper that you would like to post pics of; that would be awesome to. I would like to have a thread where links and pics are all posted in one spot. That would save my students the hassle and time of having to research and track down all those websites. They just don't have that amount of time with only 4 weeks left in the school year. There task will be to come up with an original design (using what's already on the market and built as a one off for inspiration). It will need to have either a receiver or winch mount and d-rings or shackle mounts. Beyond that it's up to them. I also tasked them with a budget of $500 which will be quite the challenge. Thanks in advance for the help.
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Cruisin Offroad in Canada. They also make an awesome rear bumper, beefiest I've seen.
 
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