Yesterday I some garage time so I made a mounting plate for the tower; it is welded in and the welds need to be flattened out.
I decided to bend the mount today so I looked for my bender that I bought from JC Whitney maybe close to 50 years ago. I finally found the box but the handles were lost but I found two Phillips head screwdrivers that worked OK.
This thing was not intended to handle this thick of material (14 ga that I had laying around) so I had to work slow and keep an even pressure going and allow for larger minimum bend radii. The picture shows the clamps in the wrong place, they should be on the part also. I used a angle duplicator that was set to the wire mockup I made.
This shows the bent part vs. the wire mockup.
This shows both ends of the mount. I found some shock isolators that I used as spacers/mounts; bit thick so they will have to be cut in half or there about. I also need to put a flat piece of rubber under the single mount on the other end.
I ended up slotting the two holes and the slot may have to be lengthened a bit after the spacers are thinned out. The flange where the two studs come though will be shortened one inch in length.
It sits almost flat on all four corners and with the flattening of the welded-in plate on the tower (grinding the part of the weld that sits high) and the adjustment of the spacers I can bolt it in and almost call this part done. I still have to add the shut-off valve to the tower.
). Part way through the painting I found the non welded spot I had forgot about which needs to be done so I will have to strip the area and repaint that spot after I weld it up.
You are a usefull set of footprints to follow it seems, even when by accident!
