floor pans FIRST TRY.

[andres]

these are the first floor pans made by me, well they are far from perfect but better than the flat sheet here typically using Emoticono smile I hope to find a better and faster way of making them because I hope to make more for my projects and also to sell for bronco owners here in Colombia.

 

[BluebroncoNC]

Cool.. Way better than I could have done.

 

[andres]

hahaha thanks BluebroncoNC was more difficult than I thought, many sheets of metal were sacrificed in the process. Lol It was an afternoon of sweat and tears

 

[AaronWelch]

Nice work. I wish I had those fabrication skills....

Aaron

 

[jeff_gates]

What's so hard, I seen them do it on TV in 10 minuets. but really, they look great.

--Jeff

 

[bronco loco]

Superb skills!!, Deberias filmar el proceso y bajarlo a You-tube.

 

[stevenson44]

is it necessary to remove the gas tank before cutting the old floor out?

 

[Toddpole]

is it necessary to remove the gas tank before cutting the old floor out?

That all depends on you idea of excitement. ;D

 

[andres]

What's so hard, I seen them do it on TV in 10 minuets. but really, they look great.

--Jeff

they are absolutely NOT 10 minutes at least not the first time. Lol I spent all afternoon in that

 

[andres]

Superb skills!!, Deberias filmar el proceso y bajarlo a You-tube.

gracias fue mas persistencia que habilidades jajajaaj la verdad no grave, de echo casi no tomo fotos tenia las manos super ocupadas y engrasadas la verdad la bead roller me dio bastante batalla.



(Thanks was more persistence than skills hahahaha the truth is that I dont do a video in fact almost did not take pictures, B/C have super busy and dirty my hands, the bead roller gave fight)

 

[andres]

is it necessary to remove the gas tank before cutting the old floor out?

or buy a very good insurance, Lol know seriously YES the cut is very close to lines and gas tank is a high risk you run

 

[jpw]

Made mine out of 16 gauge galv 20 plus years ago and they're still solid but they don't look near as nice as that, awesome job!

J

 

[andres]

Thaks J I try as best I could but now I'm thinking of making a die and using a hydraulic press the bead roller is ok for an afternoon but is hard to go straight today I was quoting the price of making the die, I can do the press but the die is other thing

 

[jpw]

for the die I would experiment with upper and lower plates of three quarter or better with flat bar spaced out on the bottom and solid rod on the top. For experimentation you could probably get away with just tacking it together and not worry about shaping the ends until you see how it forms up. It's going to take a really good size press though. I'll try and post up a sketch later on.

J

 

[andres]

Cool.thanks

 

[JGbronc]

Well done, andres! Looks good!

 

[jpw]

not much of an artist but hopefully you get the idea. I would make the first one really rough, cutting torch is likely good enough for bottom and top, can use flat bar and solid rod with some pretty solid tacks to fine tune the spacing on the half inch flat bar and solid rod that form the groove. Then see how it works in the press. If it works good maybe you could fine tune it with multiple grooves.

J

 

[andres]

got it