Frazer-Nash BMW wings.

[Oldnek]

Beautiful work David. It is fantastic to see great craftsmen like yourself and Bernhard creating magnificent works from scratch.

I definitely have a hell of a lot to learn...

Cheers John

[David Gardiner]

Thanks John.

This shows the swage which I put in with my p21 Pullmax. I used the same tool for forming the basic shape for all the swages on all these wings. I then worked them to the final shape by hand. The swage changes shape around the wing.



I made the complete front part of these wings in one piece. It's not a particularly big section, I used my thumbnail dies to shrink the metal to shape. There was no problem shrinking the metal. The difficult thing was to get the part to be the correct shape. I would normally make a piece like this in two parts with a joint along the radius. I struggled like hell with this part and I could have made it several times over in the time if I had made it my usual way.

David

[David Gardiner]

As I said above the initial swage shape was formed using some plastic tooling in my Pullmax then worked by hand and and on my little Chinese wheeling machine. In fact all the wheeling on these wings was done on the harbour fraight style machine.





Looks a bit of an odd shape in this photo but if you watch the video you can see that it's just this photo.

David

[David Gardiner]

In the photo above it can be seen that the wings are a pretty good match in size. This shows that it's possible to make new wings (fenders) using the originals as patterns or bucks.



This is the wing before it was dressed and filed to a metal finish.

David

[nonhog]

Beautiful!
Have to ask why the HF wheel? Was it a size is right issue?
Got me curious.

Originally Posted by David Gardiner

and on my little Chinese wheeling machine. In fact all the wheeling on these wings was done on the harbour fraight style machine.






David

[David Gardiner]

Hi Brad, the HF style machine has small wheels and the radius on these wings is small. I have been using the little machine quite a bit. I find it quite useful.
I like to show that it is possible to make stuff without spending a fortune.

I used my Pullmax on these wings but the whole job could have been done on the little wheel.

David.

[Mike Rouse]

David,
Have you given any thought to filling the Harbor Freight e wheel frame with concrete or non shrinking grout. Certainly would add mass and may stiffen it up too.
Low cost add on.
Mike

[David Gardiner]

Mike the machine is very stiff (ridged). The wheels are not perfectly concentric but not too far out. I have managed to make things on it ok. Mine came from Matt Stakes here in the UK.

Here is a link, the one at the top of the page is the one I have. He sent it to me to try out and I liked it enough to pay for it and keep it. For someone starting out or someone who just wants to make patch repairs this is pretty good value.


http://www.stakesys.co.uk/department/english_wheels/

David

[Mike Rouse]

David,
Yes that one appears to be more substantial than the HF one that I was referring to. With the corner bracing and the wheel rack in the vertical member it looks to be well built.

Mike.

[David Gardiner]

I should have posted a photo before. I am obviously not that familiar with H F stuff. Thanks Mike.

David