It seems I am constructing this thing so much more quickly than the B-3, that I barely have time to post the updates here...
Last Saturday afternoon my son Cody came out and we spent an enjoyable afternoon building on the chassis. He's an Art major, and can cut a pretty great miter...
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...for quicker reference, I'd printed out some full E-size drawings of the chassis.
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Anyway, with the chassis still upside down. I'd gotten the passenger side rear passenger box angle post set up to the desired height and 22-degree angle.
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Lemme tell ya, one of the best Ideas I've ever had was incorporating the use of concrete blocks for set-up, establishing ride height, and holding things in place. They're great, Best Tool Evar, so much Mint.
Equivalent measured angles, thanks...
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...and then the sides of the driveshaft pass-thru, made of 1 x 2 .083 rectangle tube. Cody cut this miter, perfectly, it slipped right in without any massaging at all.
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He mitered another tube, it slipped right in, I welded it all up and then we flipped the whole thing over and he cut the tubes that define the bottom of the rear axle/suspension support structure. They're just laid in place in this view.
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That session came to a close and Cody went home. Sunday rolled around and I began constructing the sides to the Passenger box.
I decided on one design change on the fly, adding a vertical between the fore and aft angular side tubes. A clamped length of 1 x 2 made a convenient locating plane...
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Now that I've got so many of the big welding magnets (I bought two more this week, for a total of eight) , I find I'm not clamping pieces for welding,hardly at all. Magnets and concrete blocks are the new clamps.
got the verticals welded in on both sides, driver's side rear angle mitered and welded, passenger side rear angle mitered...and... ran out of shield gas. Damn it. And I was doing so good.
anyway, I did take time to place the upper driver's side longitudinal, and scribe the insides for measuring and mitering.
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...which led to quite possibly the best free-hand angle-grinder miter EVAR, in all of Christendom and the pagan lands...seriously, I cut this freehand, on scribed lines, with my angle grinder and an HF cutoff wheel.
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I match-cut the passenger side tube from the Driver side, magnetted them in place, and then quit for the weekend.
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The B-3 build log:
http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=13941 unfortunately, all the pictures were lost in the massive server crash
The beginnings of the Jag Special,
https://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=19012Again, all pictures were lost.