hard to find good usable plate in the yards around here..I got a trailer load many years ago when I did an electrical demo job at a concrete pipe plant,a $100 bill to the job super sure paid off on that one;) When stored properly it doesn't go bad. My cousin got me some additional 1"plate from an air compressor plant in Allentown PA that was closing years ago..I scrounge it whenever I can.
any way I fished out a section of 1-1/4 plate cuz it was easy to get to, and burned out a 5" x 38" section for the bottom strap with the track torch.About 60psi oxygen.Now the real work starts cleaning up this section of metal for fabrication, and disassembling the brake for mods. It'l have to wait a day or two to get back on this as running a 9"angle grinder on early sunday will piss off the neighbors for sure.
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Last edited by bunkclimber; 02/09/2020 06:32 AM.