Been there, done that...doing my best to not do it again!SheffSmoker wrote: Going to try and make some door hinges today out of the odd shaped U channel, hours of cutting and grinding for a few inches of metal!
Appreciate your input, thank you. Unfortunately as I don't have access to any decent plate I'm just going to wing this first one and see what happens. It's more a "Can I do it?" build as a test rather than something I'll be using all the time once finished. Next one is already in the pipeline which will be bang on calcs wise.Dirtytires wrote: ↑June 30th, 2020, 10:42 amAt 220% I might recommend cutting it in half and welding a flat plate on the bottom. Could always fill it half full of sand but that seems silly.
Kind words - thank you! Believe me I would rather have a nice shop full of fresh metal stock than having to make do with some of this rubbish, everything is taking ten times as long as it should - but I'm enjoying doing it.Dirtytires wrote: ↑June 30th, 2020, 9:30 pmYou have more ambition than I do....never in a million years would I cut channel down to make flat bar! Honestly, I’ve never even thought of that so hats off to you for teaching me something today.
While I’m at it, those hinge barrels are true genius!
Please keep sharing as I, for one, am enjoying your ideas and can definitely see myself using some of them on projects down the road.