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#Post#: 3158--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: synthpunk Date: November 11, 2020, 12:26 pm
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Another pic, courtesy of the ever wonderful MSPaint.... orange
bits are solid, yellow bits are hollow.
#Post#: 3165--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: synthpunk Date: November 12, 2020, 10:28 am
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I got some time today at lunch to cut out the last two chassis
rail laminates and to cut one of the two 8x2 boards down into
smaller pieces for making the floor and seat parts of the tub. I
have one 8x2 left which will get cut in half to do the sides
(maybe tomorrow? I’ve got Friday and Monday off) which will
leave a couple of square feet at most left over in offcuts. I
may have to invest in another half sheet of plywood in order to
get the rest of the tub done. Tomorrow I’ll have to also
assemble some sort of jury rigged router table to trim all the
rough cut bits I’ve produced so far to exact size and shape.
I’ve a couple of old bass speaker cabinets at home that should
work quite well for improvising the router table out of.
Thinking about it, they may well be a suitable source of
reasonably sized, free Baltic Birch ply..hmmmmmm....
#Post#: 3171--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: synthpunk Date: November 13, 2020, 2:10 pm
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Today was reasonably productive. I got one of the rail laminates
trimmed and finished to size, which is going to be the master
pattern for all the rest. I also trimmed a load of bits for the
seat to nominal size, ready for further fettling, along with the
floor.
I also got my Riley Elf radiator surround, which I made a grille
for using a scrapped PA speaker. I also appear to have annoyed
the cat.
#Post#: 3172--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: synthpunk Date: November 13, 2020, 2:12 pm
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Annoyed cat, radiator grille;
#Post#: 3173--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: M.Z.Nahajski Date: November 14, 2020, 3:38 am
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I like the use of a speaker front as the grill!
#Post#: 3174--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: synthpunk Date: November 14, 2020, 4:11 am
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If this car goes horribly wrong and gets scrapped ill save that
bit and turn it into a guitar amp.. i made the amplifier section
for one for Jeff Beck many years ago that had a Daimler hearse
grille/surround over a 15” speaker, and two tone leather over
the rest of the cabinet. It was a 3 way collaboration between a
guitar maker(cabinet and concept), an amp maker (me) and a
silversmith (radiator badge and rille badge were solid silver),
it looked super cool.
#Post#: 3175--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: M.Z.Nahajski Date: November 14, 2020, 5:26 am
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now THAT is cool!
#Post#: 3176--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: sylvaman Date: November 14, 2020, 6:27 am
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Wow ! Got some really talented people on here ;D
#Post#: 3178--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: synthpunk Date: November 14, 2020, 4:43 pm
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Some pictures of Wood;
Some trimmed roughed out bits of seat, the rails, and some pine
for pattern making for the seat
#Post#: 3179--------------------------------------------------
Re: Riley Special chassis
By: synthpunk Date: November 14, 2020, 4:54 pm
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The prototype seat bottom support roughly held in place between
the 2 of the rail laminates; theres 2 triangles of pine and some
more plywood to box that bit up that you cant see, all currently
just screwed together. Ill make some proper triangles out of
real wood when i can confirm it all fits.
There will then be a load of glue and loads more screws
attached.
Ive had an idea regards driver comfort, so the bit of the seat
you can see here is basically just the support. The actual seat
will be woven Shaker style using 25mm nylon webbing and
suspended just above this bit from four 1” wooden rails,
connected at the corners. We had a baby this year during
lockdown 1.0 and i made mrs Synthpunk a shaker style rocking
chair for feedin the minime and drying socks on. the tape woven
seat is very strong, comfortable, and springy, which is wot gave
me the idea..
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