OK Ladies and Gents. I wrapped up my build a few days ago and I figured I’ll post the last of the build pics for you to see.
First off, here are the pictures from my Bumper construction. Made some custom templates in CAD and printed them out full size.
I took some 1-1/2" thick wood and planed it down nice and even. Turned out i was a hair too short so I had to tack another strip on top
Then I cut out the center rail template and glued it to the piece
here is the part cut out and cleaned up pretty good
Then, I cut side rails out of 1/8" acrylic. In this pic you can see how I split one rail in two becasue I didn’t have a big enough piece to cut it together.
Next, i started to cut out what I called the side wings. I used a template that had a front view, side view and top view. I glued all these pictures to a piece of wood I planed down to the correct sizes. For one of the cuts, I screwed the pieces together to make sure the were exact mirrors of each other
Heres how it turned out
Pieces lying together
And putting it all together. Also you can see I predrilled the hole for the shock mount so I didnt have to try and find the center of an odd piece again.
“All together now”… ( all together now ! )
After that I applied bondo to get rid of all the imperfections and wood grains. Also kind of hard to see here but I was able to add the radius between the center rail and side rails by globing bondo there and using a 1/8" diameter wooden rod to screed away the bondo. Worked really well.
That’s it for the bumper I don’t have anymore shots ( started to rush) You can see the final product on the finished shots.
Here are a few more Misc shots. I’m kinda burned out on writing now ( and fighting a cold a co worker decided to give me 2 days before Halloween) so a little lacking on the description side for these ones.
Hose connector using 3 types of PVC fittings
Allen wrench trigger
Connection inside. Extra hose to pinch allen wrench in place. Hot glue to old it in place.
In place.
Rear box construction
Attaching trigger box. Had to drill holes through the side to secure to rear box. Oh well thats what bondo is for.
To get nice even hole for my N-filter I decided to use a 1/2" leather hole punch on some styrene plastic to basically plug the holes up. Beats trying to paint white over black.
Progression shots
Wasn’t happy how the split loom for the tubing turned out the first go around ( very un-even) so this time I thought Id get some dowel rod, slip the split loom on it, then use a blade to cut perfectly even split loom …um…thingers ( whats the word?)