Despite the busy season up to the holidays, I've managed to eek out a couple more hours in the workshop. I've also managed to disguise some purchasing as 'early Christmas presents' which have so far gone un-noticed...
I decided there was plenty of 'meat' left on the original trailing arm bracket, so I am going to re-use this. Here I've straightened out the separated parts using heat, 15mm plate, a HUGE ball pein hammer and a box and pan folder...
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Now it's pretty much it's original shape, I'm going to make up a pattern from the original using some brown masking paper...
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Now the information is accurately recorded, I'm going to transfer it onto some 'Zintec' steel to make the blank for cutting...
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I'll tidy it up now ready for cutting...
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