Thursday, September 2, 2010

Gussets

This is where I realized that I should have waited on the spring hardware, and did the gussets first.
 

Now I need help flipping the trailer frame over so that I don't bend the spring brackets.  Luckily I don't have that many to do, there are only going to be 8 of them, one in each corner of the trailer bed, and 2 large gussets backing up the areas in the A-Frame where the tube was bent and welded, and two more little ones in the sharp angle behind the short straight portion of the tongue.  I had a real hell of a time figuering out he angle to cut the gussets at that went behind the bends.  The actual angle was fairly easy to figuer out, but the saw only goes to 60 degrees, and the tube can only go into the saw one way if you want the "holes" of the tube to show up on the correct side of your "triangle" to close up the angle.  It took me a couple of tries to get it right.


Eventually I got the fit up to be very good, so I scrubbed off some of the mill scale with a wire brush and burned it in.  This is where I am in the project, I have the gussets all positioned and tacked, ready to be welded on.


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