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Fantastic metalwork!!! I am bookmarking this since I need to make similar repairs. I am just curious about you lateral tank supports that you custom fabed. What was your motivation to fab vs picking up ones already formed, say from Restoration Design? Just curious on that.
Mine are also in bad shape along with many other bits. Since you are tackling many parts, what are you using to support your project? Cart, jig, rotisserie, etc? In post #84, it looks like the octagon design.
Cheers
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Yeah, the support is an “octisserie”, built like the one I first saw in Fishcop’s thread. It worked really well, but I’d pay a little more attention to the height dimensions to try to get the CG closer to center of the loop. It was a little difficult rolling back to “right side up” the way I built it.
As to the lateral tanks supports- those pieces were from a few years ago (I’m way behind getting pictures up and just now trying to catchup). I’m not completely sure those pieces were available then, but I suspect it was a combination of not wanting to buy a big piece to cut out the little piece I needed, thinking it wouldn’t be too big a deal to do compared to some of the ones I’d earlier, and some of the other issues I’d had with various reproduction parts that all took extra “massaging” to get them to fit.