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Bomber seat
Hello together,
after reading in this forum for quite a while without contributing a lot, I now want to share the build of my aluminum bomber style seat with you. In the past 1 or 2 years I was getting more and more fascinated by the metalshaping skills of many people I have seen in the internet and started to read an re-read books, watch videos and suck in as much information about the topic as possible. As we all know the best way to learn something is to do it so I looked for a project which would teach me how to form metal by hand and with the help of some basic machines but still be something that can be used afterwards. On youtube I saw a video by Ron Covell in which he makes a aluminum bomber seat. I loved the look oft he seat so much that I wanted to give it a try by myself. After countless hours of work and making some mistakes on my way I am now finished with the seat. Itīs by far rougher than the seat by Mr. Covell but I am happy with the result anyway. Bye, Tobi 1.JPG 2.JPG 3b.JPG 4.JPG 5a.JPG 5b.JPG 6.JPG 9.JPG 10.JPG 11.JPG 12.JPG 13.JPG 14.JPG 15.JPG 16.JPG 17.JPG 18.JPG
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Tobi Last edited by galooph; 03-13-2019 at 08:44 AM. |
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Great job. Great result.
He recently I tested the 1mm steel sheet seat. You could make it in one piece. DSC00106.jpg DSC001081.jpg DSC001101.jpg
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Very nice work! They would look right at home in a very light car or a Bomber. I'd like to make a set for my Okrassa powered Beetle in the future.
PS: I really like your dining room chairs!
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Great job on your Bomber Seat! I'm amazed at the close spacing you were able to get the belled holes. The Mittler Brothers dies I use have a 1/4-inch (6.25mm) flat around the edges.
Can you post pictures of your belling dies? Ron Covell |
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Superb job Tobi. I'd be proud to have done that.
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Top job Tobi. Please don't read any more books as you will put the rest of us to shame!
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Richard "I know nothing. I from Barcelona" (Manuel - Fawlty Towers) Link to our racecar project https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elan-...ab=public&view |
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Very cool. Great job, Tobi.
When I saw it next to the table with the other "normal" chairs, it made me think that you could make a whole set for your table....
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very cool seats, I need to make a couple speedster seats for my project, in the not too distant future, thanks for showing your work
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Hi,
Nice looking seat, I always liked the style of them. Bill
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Bill Tromblay "A sign of a good machinist, is one who can fix his F$@& Ups" My mentor and friend, Gil Zietz Micro Metric Machine. |
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Wow, thanks for all the compliments! That motivates me to go on!
@Ron: I made my own dimple dies on my lathe. When I saw that I have clearing issues with the die because of the too tightly spaced holes I reduced the outer lip of the dimple die (see pic). Interestingly it didnīt affect the quality of the dimple. @clifford & gashammer: funny that you mentioned the chairs. I donīt have a car for this seat so I want to make it a rocking chair (see the attached pic with a sample base). I just the materials to try to make the base by myself as well. @Jaroslay & Neilb: I always loved the style of the original Porsche Speedster seats and was thinking how to make those in one piece. When I see the example from Jaroslav I think I should just give it a try. IMG_8319.jpg IMG_8320.jpg GTCS2040.JPG Tobi
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Tobi Last edited by Steve Hamilton; 03-14-2019 at 09:21 PM. |
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