En dit is het resultaat van vandaag, aan de andere kant:
Hier zie je het verschil tussen de oude en de nieuwe uitloop (achter):
Het verschil in materiaalkwaliteit is aanzienlijk. Wat er op zat is 0,9 millimeter dik en wat ik er nu nieuw heb opgezet is deels 1,2 en deels 2,0mm dik. De maatvoering is overigens perfect!! Ik heb geen aanpassingen hoeven doen.
De twee uitlopen aan de achterkant heb ik nog niet gemonteerd; ik wilde eerst de tussensectie aan de voorkant verwijderen en daar ging nogal wat tijd in zitten. Ik kon het ding er niet in een keer uit krijgen maar moest steeds stukje-voor-stukje afslijpen en lostikken. Hij is er nu uit, maar het kostte zoveel tijd dat het er vandaag niet meer in zat om de achterste uitlopen te vervangen. Volgende week meer ...
They're in!! The two outriggers at front are replaced. I picked up the tank with welding-gas last week in Beekbergen and because of that I managed to weld the right front outrigger to the chassis beam earlier this week. Today I did the left front one. A complete outrigger consists of two parts; the triangular outrigger itself and the jack-support, that has to be welded on the first part. I welded the two parts together before mounting the whole thing to the chassis beam, because you have to weld around the parts and it seemed to me that the other way round (the triangular shape to the chassis first and then the jack support to it) was much more cumbersome.
The metal was a little greasy, probably to protect it against rust during storage and transportation. I punched two rows of holes 20mm heart-to-heart(on each side of the outrigger) for welding, cleaned the parts with water and soap, dry them and then grinded them somewhat. Finally, before welding, I sprayed some Inox on all welding surfaces and left it to dry for twenty minutes. The welding of the two parts went fine; it took some efforts to find the optimal settings on the MIG-welder, and after that I finished the parts in a couple of minutes. After cooling down I clamped the complete outrigger to the chassis beam somewhat loosely, in order to get them better in position with a plastic hammer. They fit remarkably well!! Another ten minutes and the first outrigger was welded in. Today I did the left front one with the same ease. I didn't fix the rear two ones yet, because I wanted to remove the front cross section first. That took me so much time (it couldn't be removed in one piece), that I had little time left, Next week more.
Photo one and two show the results of the welded-in right-front outrigger, photo three and four show the left-front one and the last photo shows the difference between the former and the new rear-left outrigger. The new metal is of much better quality; the old part is made of 0,9mm sheet metal, while the new one is made of 1,2 and 2,0mm parts. The fitting is excellent, as I wrote before.