Adventures in soldering: The Rat Rod Wrecker

[moon puppy]

:hmmm Harbor Freight :hmmm

Yep, already eyeballin one myself.

 

[Phil]

Good to see you back Randy, did you say some where before if you are going to paint this?

 

[Sherman 18]

http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=doming+set

They have 20% off coupon also

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Just found this thread and it took a while to read through it. You have done some phenominal work on this model Randy. The sheet metal fabrication has been top notch! The only question that occured to me was why didn't you make suicide doors since everything was being fabricated anyway.

Definitely NOT a criticism, just a thought that occured to me. :hmmm

Will be watching, interested to see how you finish it out and what other little tricks you are going to use in the build process.

 

[SA Dave]

Wow Randy youre doing more and way better work on this model than I can do on my 1:1 car :woohoo:

 

[Sherman 18]

Dave real cars are easier :coolio

 

[Adam Baker]

Great to see more progress on this. Absolutely love it. And I think I'll check out that Doming tool at HF as well.

 

[chukw]

Looking dapper, Randy! Get it? Dapper? I'm here all month, folks..

Seriously, I want to drive this thing around town- it's so cool! You're a heckuva modeler, Mr Ditton- cheers!

 

[randy_ditton]

Thank you Mr. Pup !!

Mr. Bob, I have used copper, brass, and tin with this tool so far. The lights that I posted were made with .008 sheet copper.

Thanks Christian !

Hi Terry, Glad to be back on this one!

Thank you Paul W.

Thanks Jeff

Hi Phil, I have decided not to paint.

Paul, What a great idea !! .....for next time

Dave, My wife said the same thing about her car when she saw this !

Thanks Adam, Glad you like it so far.

Hey Chuck, Appreciate the kind words my friend !


Building some fuel tanks, more forming work...

As far as using the forming tool my process is to start with a rough cut oversized disk of metal and form it into suceeding smaller sizes of the female 'cup' until the desired size is reached. This takes some practice but yeilds some nice results.

Thanks for looking in!

Randy

 

[Tony lee]

And they said "Mister Wizard" had passed away.

Only the elderly will get it huh Randy?

Uncle Tony :laugh:

 

[Cheyenne]

Randy , Randy , Randy , holy sheet , ........ that is some of the coolest fabricating I've ever seen .

 

[moon puppy]

Randy, working with the dome on that size of sheet, do you anneal the metal first, or at all? How thick is the sheet when you start, does it thin out as you shape it?

 

[phantom II]

An amazing display of talent and craftsmanship Randy

It humbles me to think that plastic and paint can still get the best of me :idonno

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[jknaus]

James

 

[Paulw]

speak for your self, Tony.(elderly) You can be Tooter Turtle. Trizzle trazzle trizzle trome, make the next one out of chrome. Randy that is a totally awesome eye ball experience.

 

[MrT]

Outstanding Randy!!!

 

[bob letterman]

Outstanding!! You know Randy,

It seems a shame to me if you painted that. It looks much more interesting and you can see/imagine how much work went into it in brass, copper and aluminum. It seems to me that paint would make it look like so many other model cars.

Just my thoughts!

Bob

 

[Sherman 18]

:woohoo:

 

[randy_ditton]

Hi Tony, Thanks for checking in buddy

Hey Glenn, Thank you my friend !!

Hi Pup, The copper is .008 and yes, annealed.

Christian, You are too modest buddy !

Thanks james

Hi Paul, Glad you are liking this one !

Thanks Terry !

Hi Bob, Yeah, no paint for this one !!

Thanks jeff.


Some progress..

Building up the box.

Thanks for looking in!!


Randy

 

[Iron Mike]

Man, that's cool! Where did the brass parts on the tree come from? B) :drinks