Evening Mossberg Owners.
I sure wish we could do without Facebook. And my whole family is posting on the damn thing. It’s like they got no moral convictions at all.
There’s not a whole lot going on here today. It was beautiful weather out but it’s supposed to rain tomorrow so I covered up everything tight with tarps. This absolutely guarantees there will be none of this rain that we desperately need, but I don’t want my tools to rust.
I fixed a little cart that had a bent wheel on it and tidied up my tools and clamps in the work shed.
Otherwise I sat around trying to figure out how I was gonna jig up this car frame and make it come out straight without spending a fortune on heavy iron.
I think I am going to literally epoxy steel pads down to my concrete slab. This will carry some skeleton work, to establish the key points on the chassis from which everything must flow.
I expect to do almost all the welding from the top of the chassis, and I am designing all the joints such that this can happen.
However some welding will be necessary from underneath. In fact I will have to crawl underneath and do some overhead welding before everything will be strong enough to flip over and weld off the bottom.
I only have a very basic idea of the frame construction I will build, & I haven’t worked out all the rubber body mounts yet either.
Instead of trying to incorporate off-the-shelf rubber body mounts, I may come up with a steel peg/plastic socket system, that allows me to pour the body mounts in place, using polyurethane.
Alternately, I can bolt off-the-shelf body mounts to the steel frame, and then create various semi-encapsulating fiberglass sockets around them on the body shell.
But before I can do any work out there I have to come up with a new steel rack and get all of my steel tubes and bars off my welding cart. Without that cart I don’t have a good place to build any subassemblies.
We will see if the predicted rain keeps me out of the boat yard tomorrow.