04-08-2018, 09:12 AM
Good morning.
Thank you for all of your extremely helpful replies and suggestions.
Mark: thank you for the offer and I shall probably be in touch soon.
Looking at some of the ideas and methods used here, I think that I have been over complicating the frame in my mind, not least by envisaging larger diameter tubes which would require more substantial equipment to form effectively. Blocks of wood with MDF formers are well within my reach. I have brazing and welding equipment, although I am very rusty on my welding: practice needed, methinks.
My thoughts about using ply were that it seems easier to obtain around here, mid-Bucks, than ash, although I have not searched widely yet. I take the point about the variable quality of ply, though. I skinned the garage side door last year in exterior grade ply and painted it well. It is already delaminating as though I had used corrugated cardboard held together with Gloy paste.
I am curious, and have yet to look into it, but how do people attach the aluminium skin to the metal frames? Is it simply a matter of rolling the edge of skin very tightly around the frame, hammering it around well, or is it more scientific than that? Attaching it to wood seems simple enough, with pins, screws and glue.
I have just picked up a copy of "Austin Seven Specials" from the library, so that may shed some light on some of my questions.
Regards,
James.
Thank you for all of your extremely helpful replies and suggestions.
Mark: thank you for the offer and I shall probably be in touch soon.
Looking at some of the ideas and methods used here, I think that I have been over complicating the frame in my mind, not least by envisaging larger diameter tubes which would require more substantial equipment to form effectively. Blocks of wood with MDF formers are well within my reach. I have brazing and welding equipment, although I am very rusty on my welding: practice needed, methinks.
My thoughts about using ply were that it seems easier to obtain around here, mid-Bucks, than ash, although I have not searched widely yet. I take the point about the variable quality of ply, though. I skinned the garage side door last year in exterior grade ply and painted it well. It is already delaminating as though I had used corrugated cardboard held together with Gloy paste.
I am curious, and have yet to look into it, but how do people attach the aluminium skin to the metal frames? Is it simply a matter of rolling the edge of skin very tightly around the frame, hammering it around well, or is it more scientific than that? Attaching it to wood seems simple enough, with pins, screws and glue.
I have just picked up a copy of "Austin Seven Specials" from the library, so that may shed some light on some of my questions.
Regards,
James.