- 1. lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "Allen Young" <riveroak@cncnet.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:28:31 -0800
- Thanks Joe, The lakester will be rear engine (GMC 302 strait six). I have this dream of someday turning it into a liner. The dragster prints sounds like a great idea. Where does one obtain a set? I'm
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00214.html (8,210 bytes)
- 2. RE: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:49:13 -0600
- This may be another controversial subject but let me fire the opening salvo: Building a chassis with square tubing is FAR easier than round tubing!!! The chassis tube intersections will drive you cr
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00216.html (9,400 bytes)
- 3. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:26:39 EST
- Work tip of the day from Bob The Carpenter: If you deside th use square tubing a chop saw with a metal cutoff wheel will give you nice uniform pieces to work with. Don't forget to wear your sefety gl
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00218.html (8,847 bytes)
- 4. RE: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:01:34 -0600
- Good suggestion. Some saws also have the capability of doing a compound angle cut but those are usually "woodworking" saws. Replace the blade with an abrasive cut- off wheel and they work on metal,
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00220.html (9,375 bytes)
- 5. RE: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:55:56 -0500 (EST)
- I cut all the regulation 1-5/8" x .125" round steel tubing for my roadster roll cage with one of Speedway's joint jiggers which uses a 1-3/4" hole saw in a 1/2" drill press. I followed the model in t
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00224.html (8,322 bytes)
- 6. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:07:16 -0800
- There are a couple of new lakesters running at El Mirage built by Mike Cooks shop and they are 2 x 4 rectangular bottom rails and 2 x 2 sq. top rails. Roll cage are std. round tubing. Square and rect
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00225.html (9,203 bytes)
- 7. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:22:22 -0800
- Should have read easier to work with not earlier, sorry -- Original Message -- From: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net> To: <ardunbill@webtv.net>; "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>; <land-sp
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00226.html (9,886 bytes)
- 8. RE: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:32:51 -0600
- I'll have to admit that the round- tube chassis that I built was before the invention of "Joint Jiggers"-- it was a hacksaw and a round Nicholsen file job-- strictly a manual operation. The thing wa
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00227.html (9,800 bytes)
- 9. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:39:56 -0500
- Glen, Sure, but by that swap I would be 'easy to bed, easy to rise'. Yea, that's what she said. ;-) Cheers, Rick /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain text me
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00228.html (9,422 bytes)
- 10. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@uswest.net>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 16:17:37 -0700
- If you plan to do a lot of "notching" go to Mittler Bros. at http://mittlerbros.com/products/index.html and then to the "Ultimate Tubing Notcher" It is expensive but it is the real deal. It is essent
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00230.html (9,449 bytes)
- 11. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: DaCudaKid@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:21:41 EST
- Has anyone used the tubing notcher by Williams low buck tools? It seems pretty good. Mike in L.A. /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majord
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00231.html (8,501 bytes)
- 12. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:49:17 EST
- /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net /// with nothing in it but /// /// unsubscribe land-speed /// /// or go to http
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00234.html (9,086 bytes)
- 13. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:08:01 -0800
- Just to add a little to the world of tubing there was a belly tank lakester built by Hoffman & Markley that was bird cage construction inside the tank body. The car is now owned by John Swanson and h
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00236.html (9,829 bytes)
- 14. RE: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:12:07 -0600
- I knew someone would remember the right designation for the "Birdcage". BTW- I saw Lucky Casner take a mechanic for a ride of one lap (14.7 miles back then) around the Nurburgring to demonstrate a p
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00237.html (9,698 bytes)
- 15. RE: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:30:58 -0500 (EST)
- Neil, you are so right, before the invention of the joint jigger it must have been a nightmare to fishmouth all the joints of a round-tube frame at various angles. You touched on an interesting subje
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00238.html (10,085 bytes)
- 16. RE: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:50:58 -0600
- Just a few rules will get you a nice, strong braze- welded joint: 1. Don't overheat the weld-- this creates intermetallics and a weak joint. 2. Have close- fitting joints. Don't fill big gaps!! 3. B
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00239.html (10,926 bytes)
- 17. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 20:23:15 EST
- Bill, All 15 million Model T Ford oilpans had the motor mounts brazed in place. My 1937 Harley frame was factory brazed together , neither factory bothered to do a neat job. They were massproduced wi
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00241.html (8,776 bytes)
- 18. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 20:31:08 EST
- Years ago when I worked at a restoration shop we used a coated brazing rod made by Eutectic (sp) it was great stiff. We would sweat Bugatti tie rod ends onto new tubes and there would be little clean
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00242.html (9,038 bytes)
- 19. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>
- Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 00:02:09 -0600
- "Tipo 61" was referred to as "the Birdcage Maserati". Seem to remember that they continued the small-tube space-frame concept through one or two additional models-- don't know if one was designated
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00247.html (10,103 bytes)
- 20. Re: lakester frame (score: 1)
- Author: Nt788@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 17:22:16 EST
- It's easier to make it light with round tubing. Jack /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net /// with nothing in it but
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00260.html (7,798 bytes)
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