Hi everyone
Thought I'd share my first RF build with you all. I've had so much help from all the build threads here so I want to try and give something back. Maybe it can help others and even inspire in some way.
Some designs I have shamelessly stolen from others, some are my own ideas. Credit to those I have borrowed ideas from. I hope they take it as appraise - I know I would.
Right then. Prior to this build I had no metalworking experience whatsoever. After hanging around here a while I decided it was time and went to get some welding equipment. A decent MIG, an angle grinder and a reciprocating saw.
Got myself an old compressor tank. About 400 liters. Wanted to use a section of the tank as firebox. I made a sketch and quickly realized that joining a tube at the spherical end of the tank makes a nasty cutting problem. After considering my options I got myself a free copy of Autodesk Inventor CAD software to solve the problem. Needless to say I never touched a CAD software before...;-) Steep learning curve is somewhat of an understatement...
The cad sw solved my nasty cut and I ended drawing the entire project in it. Result below:
Alright. On to the build. I realized I'd better build the trailer first or else it will not be built a all...
That turned out to be an axcercise in grinding and refurbishing more than building... More in the next post.
Thought I'd share my first RF build with you all. I've had so much help from all the build threads here so I want to try and give something back. Maybe it can help others and even inspire in some way.
Some designs I have shamelessly stolen from others, some are my own ideas. Credit to those I have borrowed ideas from. I hope they take it as appraise - I know I would.
Right then. Prior to this build I had no metalworking experience whatsoever. After hanging around here a while I decided it was time and went to get some welding equipment. A decent MIG, an angle grinder and a reciprocating saw.
Got myself an old compressor tank. About 400 liters. Wanted to use a section of the tank as firebox. I made a sketch and quickly realized that joining a tube at the spherical end of the tank makes a nasty cutting problem. After considering my options I got myself a free copy of Autodesk Inventor CAD software to solve the problem. Needless to say I never touched a CAD software before...;-) Steep learning curve is somewhat of an understatement...
The cad sw solved my nasty cut and I ended drawing the entire project in it. Result below:
Alright. On to the build. I realized I'd better build the trailer first or else it will not be built a all...
That turned out to be an axcercise in grinding and refurbishing more than building... More in the next post.
