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daisy 2.0 build
clbarclay:
I'm guessing the tray was designed for D44's 110 tray back which IIRC has quite a bit taller chassis rails, to be honest where those holes extend above the chassis looks nasty. Fortunately the number of stress cycles from winching and recovery is relativerly low so fatigue failure shouldn't be an issue. A good weld in the wrong place can be as likely to crack as a bad weld in the right place.
Using what you have, I would probably cut the rear corners off the outer at an angle to follow the profile of the rear slot and match this profile on the inside plates. Then cover over the top with a length of flat and bend the flat to follow the profile cut in the side plates.
Is the exposed cavity between the winch tray and chassis open at the bottom?
If so then just leaving it open at the top is another option.
discorich:
The build looks great, i would love to do this to my disco at some point, i have got about half way through doing a pick up to my disco, ie, i have run out of funds but it is driveable now and i have done a few events in it. would love to put tubular steel over the wheel arches to make it kind of a cladded tray back.
Build is looking great, keep the updates comming Boss.
boss:
--- Quote from: discorich on June 07, 2009, 20:30:52 --- would love to put tubular steel over the wheel arches to make it kind of a cladded tray back.
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watch this space ;)
J.D.:
--- Quote from: boss on June 04, 2009, 21:22:21 ---its a 150 amp sealy quite happily welds 6mm plate if you get usedto the welder but only for 6mins :lol:
its more than enough for general modifying im just going a bit ott with welds, bit [!Expletive Deleted!] off with the way the ones on the tray look but i know they penitrated.
it might be up for sale soon if either of you are interested only going to fund my big one...or a TIG :roll:
the 7.5mx6mmx25mm piece of steel cost me £10.80 :D
bought that, 2 lengths(7.5m) of 50x50x3mm box, 4 lengths of 25x25x3mm and a sheet of 2mx1mx1.5mm alli sheet for £130 deliverd! (with the 6mm flat bar)
J.D.
i know what you mean about watching other people work. i have learnt so much from jsut looking and keeping my mouth shut (very old skool college lecturer :lol:). i dont have a problem with posting its jsut that the ammount of time i spend taking photos, uploading them to photobucket and then doing a little write up on here is taking build time away. not many were still posting so thought evereyone had lost interest.....not going to waist build time if no one wants to know about it.
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Exactly. I don't really get into the serious hacking about, I can do it, its just at the moment I don't have the facilities to do it, not with three trucks of my own in the workshop at the moment. One of which is seriously hacking me off and about to get blown up.
Re the welder - I needed one for later this week so went out this morning and spent £490 on one, and Ive also repaired the 130 lol.
Is it a local place you get the steel from or a website?
boss:
steel will either have been from chorus or ASD metal solutions, cant remember who i used this time....just remember there wasnt much in it.
what welder did you get?
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