wishbone tubes

[AshG]

even with the tube mitre program its just a case of using the grinder and a file combined with a lot of mucking about. if i were to build another roadster i would definatly buy the pre done tubes from 3ge and just weld them up myself. brings the fabrication time down to hours rather than days

[allterrain]

I am just profiling mine at the moment using my lathe,made up a rotory cutter mounted in the chuck,same diameter as the bush tube, made a jig to hold the arm tube and mounted to the cross slide, works a treat.Cheers Brendan.

[Talonmotorsport]

Thats how we make all of our wishbones,profile cut with the lathe to the correct angles first time every time. Process goes from full lengths of steel to full set of finished wishbones in 3-4 hours.

[AshG]

i was going to do mine in the lathe but i was too tight to buy the cutting bits as the local machine shop wanted £50 for the two.

[uggy]

use holesaws. you just need to make a holder and they are cheaper than endmills. thats how we used to do the chrome-moly tube for karts

[londonsean69]

Originally Posted by uggy

use holesaws. you just need to make a holder and they are cheaper than endmills. thats how we used to do the chrome-moly tube for karts

Do you mean mounting holesaws in the lathe?

Good idea, I had never thought of that.

You can get tube end notchers for just this sort of thing, but they cost wedge

Sean

[flyerncle]

RacerAl had a good picture of a mitre tool he had made on his blog,worth a look.

[Ricky]

hi i was wondering if anyone could help me? I would just like to know if i cannot find semless tube will normal tube work and i also would like to know what is the recommended thickness of the tube wall.. Thanks