That odd parallelogram looking thing. Well, if you look close you can see it was poorly made. As it is a very important part of the car, I decided to re-do it. To do this, I made a couple new jigs. The first was to cut the compound angle using my single angle band saw. The jig merely held the piece at an angle to the work surface. Below are the jig and a couple action shots.
It worked really well. All of my cuts were within 1 degree of the specified angle. With that portion out of the way, I went on making a jig to assemble the L assembly. Before I used a poorly made jig on my build table, but now I made an independent jig on some very flat MDF. I think it turned out nicely. You can see the tubes for the L-assembly on the jig waiting to be welded.
I modified the jig a bit more after taking the picture, I'll have some sort of a pic later on. As you can see, the angles are much closer on this piece. Hopefully with my friend Andy's help I will be able to get this welded up Tuesday.
While I was waiting for the bandsaw to cut tubes, I decided to clean up the garage a little bit. Here are the before and after shots:
Before:
After:
If you look closely, you can see that the floor is no longer covered in scraps of metal and wood. It is much easier to move around and work in a clean garage.
A couple more pictures of my equipment:
1. My garage radio
2. My new band saw blade (the cheap Chinese one that came with the band saw finally bit the ghost)
Well that is all I managed to get done this weekend. I'll have more updates later this week. Studying for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam was a burden the past two weeks, but now that it is done I will have more free time!
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