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FED Build
lake_harley:
Mild steel. It's for forward of the mid plate and ordered .095", which my junior engineer calculations came up to being about 3+ times heavy enough to handle the stress on my relatively short (145") WB car. I expect a delivery of .095" DOM tube tomorrow to replace the w-a-y thin walled tubing I got first, and I'm confident the DOM will be within spec.
I'm using all .120" DOM for the cockpit/cage area which I've been putting together as time permits over the last couple days. I've checked every piece of tubing I've used so far and it's all checking .121" to .122" wall, so I should be good on the .118" requirement. My pile of tubing is starting to resemble the back half of a FED! :)
Lynn
lake_harley:
OK...Let's see if I have this photo posting figured out.
If a photo should magically appear, it's the progress on my FED chassis as of the end of yesterday, Friday. I must say, it was pretty exciting to see the chassis actually starting to look like something! Chassis is all tacked, but there is still a lot to do before welding time. I settled on 145" wheelbase.
FWIW....I'm the ruggedly handsome gentleman posing shamelessly for the photo. 8)
Lynn
JEFF/21C:
looking keep, it up
tcoupekyle:
Awesome!! Looks super cool
crider:
Looking great!
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