Well, I keep going to the garage and working on something else. Today I decided to look at the shiny buttons and work on the saginaw mount. After talking with Erik, I was urged to mount the spacers through the mount, and after reading online, I decided to do the C channel around the frame.
In the first picture, you see the first bend in the 1/4 plate that Andrew helped me bend on the brake at our welding class. We bent it a little too much, so I first heated it up and bent it back some, closer to 85 degrees angle. Then I welded it to the bottom of the frame. After a little heating and beating, and some clamps, I welded the face (the middle) to the frame, heated up the top bend and bent it down. A little time with the plasma and some grinding and the saginaw was mounting up again. I need to do the outside frame support, finish the welds, and this project is done.....
Now off to the other two dozen shiny buttons in the shop.....
In the first picture, you see the first bend in the 1/4 plate that Andrew helped me bend on the brake at our welding class. We bent it a little too much, so I first heated it up and bent it back some, closer to 85 degrees angle. Then I welded it to the bottom of the frame. After a little heating and beating, and some clamps, I welded the face (the middle) to the frame, heated up the top bend and bent it down. A little time with the plasma and some grinding and the saginaw was mounting up again. I need to do the outside frame support, finish the welds, and this project is done.....
Now off to the other two dozen shiny buttons in the shop.....