Oshkosh Het M1070, M1000

[Car5858]

Made some progress this afternoon, made the axle supports, changed the design a bit so I can mount the shocks inside the frame like the 1:1. I have the front support side frames started but not finished (need to bend them).

Its amazing what you can do with a bandsaw, drill press, and a set of good files.
here is the axle support.

[Car5858]

Made a little more progress this afternoon.

I will be changing out the socket head cap screws for button heads. I need the scoket heads for the crossmember installation.

Attached the rear section frame mounts and axle supports. Used a .125 punch to help align the parts. Worked pretty good.

One thing I do not like is that the aluminum gets marked easily. I will have to disassemble everything and clean the parts up after everything is worked out.

Thanks for looking

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by Car5858

Made some progress this afternoon, made the axle supports, changed the design a bit so I can mount the shocks inside the frame like the 1:1. I have the front support side frames started but not finished (need to bend them).

Its amazing what you can do with a bandsaw, drill press, and a set of good files.
here is the axle support.

That IS some nice hand work. I like it.
On your solid modeling; Is that done with Autocad or Solid Works? I hope I can do that kind of drawing someday.

[Car5858]

Originally Posted by doodlebug

Hey Carl have you thought about casting them yourself? http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/char/index.html
Later, Neil#2 aka doodlebug.

Thanks Neil I will look into that.

Originally Posted by 9W Monighan

That IS some nice hand work. I like it.
On your solid modeling; Is that done with Autocad or Solid Works? I hope I can do that kind of drawing someday.

Steve, I did solid the modeling with AutoCad 2009. First make an orthographic drawing of the part you want to model. Copy that drawing and start a new acad3d drawing, then paste the copied drawing into the new. This way you have all the elements in the proper view. Then you can use the extrude, press pull, subtract combine and 3d rotate commands to finish your shape.

You can get fancy by adding surface textures and rendering to get jpegs like I have posted.

Then use stlout on the command line to create an stl file for export to bobcad or othere gcode generator program that you have.

As for solidworks, I am not that proficent at it so far. (still Learning)