Pete38
1st October 2012, 08:09 AM
Hi All. Been out in Yalwal State Forest with the p38 and it went heaps well up Monkey Gum for anyone familiar with that area.
It got me thinking again about Sill Protectors, not because anything touched the sills but more that there were a few close calls and if it was more damp then things might have ended differently.
Originally I was thinking about manufacturing some myself, trying to relearn to weld seeing I haven't done it in years and even then it was not overly advanced.
So I head round to a fabricator that is a country neighbour/friend of the family who does a lot of fabrication and modifications of race cars. Just to give you an idea, he has been involved in a fair amount of design and fabrication of quite a few Ozzy open wheelers and go carts so he knows his stuff.
So I went round there to get estimates of prices to manufacture a set of Sill Protectors similar to the "rockrover" design but with a few small mods. Keep in mind the Rock Rover ones are $750 a pair and they never replied to tell me how much shipping was gonna cost so they lost my business.... Which was likely anyway with the cost of shipping.
I was pleasantly surprised to find he gave me a ball park figure of a maximum of $300 a side including material and fabrication. Thought this was quite good for a once of fabrication. This cost is based on I made the design and he just gives suggestions. Would cost more if I asked him to make them with no drawings or design.
I told him I would put this up on the forum when I got them made and he mentioned that if there was more interest he would set up a jig and the cost of production would come down a fair amount.
Now I am looking at getting these things made shortly so probably will just go ahead and get some made (and final product posted up here) but just putting it out there to see if anyone is interested in joining the prototype design and possibly reduced cost of multiple fabrications.
I'm based in Camden (South West Sydney) and so is the fabricator.
It got me thinking again about Sill Protectors, not because anything touched the sills but more that there were a few close calls and if it was more damp then things might have ended differently.
Originally I was thinking about manufacturing some myself, trying to relearn to weld seeing I haven't done it in years and even then it was not overly advanced.
So I head round to a fabricator that is a country neighbour/friend of the family who does a lot of fabrication and modifications of race cars. Just to give you an idea, he has been involved in a fair amount of design and fabrication of quite a few Ozzy open wheelers and go carts so he knows his stuff.
So I went round there to get estimates of prices to manufacture a set of Sill Protectors similar to the "rockrover" design but with a few small mods. Keep in mind the Rock Rover ones are $750 a pair and they never replied to tell me how much shipping was gonna cost so they lost my business.... Which was likely anyway with the cost of shipping.
I was pleasantly surprised to find he gave me a ball park figure of a maximum of $300 a side including material and fabrication. Thought this was quite good for a once of fabrication. This cost is based on I made the design and he just gives suggestions. Would cost more if I asked him to make them with no drawings or design.
I told him I would put this up on the forum when I got them made and he mentioned that if there was more interest he would set up a jig and the cost of production would come down a fair amount.
Now I am looking at getting these things made shortly so probably will just go ahead and get some made (and final product posted up here) but just putting it out there to see if anyone is interested in joining the prototype design and possibly reduced cost of multiple fabrications.
I'm based in Camden (South West Sydney) and so is the fabricator.