Thread: The Ultimate FC

Someone else may come along with a better idea, but I reckon rolling would get those S/S angles curved for the corner sections.
Don.

Check between the 8 to 10 minute marks of this you tube video.
Luckily someone else has shown me the way.
The problem I have is my choice of using stainless steel which will make things harder to bend without losing the curved cross section profile shape...........time will tell.

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I suspect the bit where they are attempting to fix bits while hanging upside down and he says Mr Stolly is not my friend strikes a chord with you? Hang in there Ron, you know its going to get better one day!

I have not posted in a long while because not much has been happening with the stalwart.
My other vehicles have been in use taking what little time and money I have.
What work has been done has been on the mufflers.
I planned only to do a simple patch repair to the bottom of them, but they turned out to be paper thin top to bottom.
The internal baffles etc were OK.
The option of replacing them in Stainless steel is not affordable currently, but I have plenty of 2mm zinc coated steel and wire in the MIG welder.
The plates that support the mufflers have been remade in stainless steel and it is a clever set up which well supports them, but also allows movement for heat expansion.
The blind bolt holes in the hull of the Stalwart where the exhaust goes have been heli coiled.
The mufflers are not really mufflers, but spark arrestors.
The motor when run with out any exhaust system is not excessively loud.
The local Barbeque/wood fire heater place provided very high temp paint for the exhaust system and the mufflers will be wrapped with insulation for a wood fire chimney to stop the paint burning of the side of the outer muffler box.

DSCN0607 by john smith, on Flickr

DSCN0608 by john smith, on Flickr

DSCN0614 by john smith, on Flickr

DSCN0615 by john smith, on Flickr

DSCN0641 by john smith, on Flickr

DSCN0642 by john smith, on Flickr

The Two pictures below are.

1/ The prototype Stalwart based on the Salamander firefighter.
Because of its looks it was called the "Beastie"
JS25809114 by john smith, on Flickr

2/ The second picture is at "Alvis" Holly Rd factory test tank.
Note the concrete test weights in the Back of the Stalwart.


JS25790291stalwart alvis test tank holyhead rd by john smith, on Flickr