modifying the pipe bender to take a 1 5/8 pipe and getting the first bends made up for Crusty. Also making all kinds of brackets with scrap from around the shop.
No No No not home made.................Shop made...... you are a professional. No one does better work that I have seen and I have seen a lot. Love the videos and the true life honesty.
You missed your career as a teacher. Bravo. Action-packed and well produced. I could almost see you planning the post-production as you were filming. 👍
Tony, i know you aren't driven by money but I think you are missing a trick here. That front end could be an entire bolt on unit with a little modification and you could make a fortune fabbing and selling them. One of the hardest jobs is the idea, but if you haven't already thought it, I just thought I would suggest it. Love the vid again and I didn't think I would be interested but your initiatives can be applied in loads of different areas. Love it all Tony, you're a star. JOE
I like watching you. I think people get a good idea of how long it takes to build things. I am working my 1960 Thame. 40 years ago I won a first place in customs 4x4 at the Detroit Autorama. 15 years ago it was in a fire. I started rebuilding it 3 years ago. New floor, wiring, interior, new motor and transmission, a little body work. Thanks for all I have learned watching you
I need brackets and radiator mounts and all that's available is scrap, a pipe bender, and a grinder! Fitzee: " Hold my beer"...... Loved the video Tony. Great stuff as always!
Hi Tony, lots of good fabrication tips. The brackets you made from the square and rectangle tubing are beautiful and blend in nicely with the tubing supports. Brilliant job shimming the tube bender dies for the smaller diameter tubing. More practical than buying the extra dies. Crusty is coming along. Thanks for the video!
As an instrumentation mechanic, I learned real quickly that you have to bend a bit more due to spring back. When you take the pressure off the metal has a memory and will spring back a bit. Same with flat metal, bend a bit extra so it is right when it has the tension or pressure is removed.
Sometimes I watch far too much on RU-vid and get depressed - politics, environment, war - and then a new Fitzee video appears and the sun shines again. Thanks Fitzee! You're a national treasure! (I sent one of your driving / tour videos to the NL tourism office a few months ago.)
I have learnt so much from you Tony! I'm in the middle of a build tackling making custom patch panels.. I often use your methods with great success. Thank you!
Well Fitz, I must say, that was a genius idea, man, you cease to amaze me, I was thoroughly impressed with the level of product you produced afterwards. Ya can't expect better than that my friend you really can't. Car is coming along great.
You encourage me to do my V8 first generation Honda Civic. A lot of what you are doing will make it easy for me to get ideas. Always enjoy your videos Tony, thanks.
Great looking job. I'm a gusset guy. I'd probably put a gusset where the two pieces of pipe are welded to the frame rails. But, it's not my car. Thanks for the video.
Exactly what I kept telling my TV while watching this video. Again, wonderful work and ingenuity from Tony, with clear instruction. Being an Ontario boy with East coast relatives and growing up on CodCo and 22Minutes, I wonder how much of the dialogue people in other parts of the world scratch their heads over. :-D
You have one of the best intros on the tube. When you say "stick around" it is always going to be a good one... You have to know you are one heck of an inspiration to other fabricators cause Fitzee has probably already done it.
That's awesome brother the way you can think about the problem then solve it. Incredible gift you have. Great way to help others figure this stuff out. Ty 😊 🙏
Just a bit of advise with that type of bender from a lot of experience. Set the needle to zero with the pipe firmly clamped in the die and pulling gently on the bender handle to remove all slack. That will give you an accurate reading. Also every diameter and wall thickness as well as material type will have different spring back. 4130 will always be more than 1080. The U clamp doesn’t really keep the tube from slipping. That’s the pinch bolts function. Check out the fabrication series for a really in depth lesson on using that type of bender. He gives great tips as well for calculating length of tube needed and distance between the beginning of bends.
Heck you could even do the same bow set up against the firewall, and have removable stretcher pipes from front to rear. Make them like a removable ladder rack rear bar. Give yourself a little extra protection in the event of a front end Collision. Great jobTony!
Tony, I used to paint small white circles on the floor then took a plumb bob and center points and clear paint over them for locator points and took a book and made notes for measurements since I did not have a 'leveling plate' also I had marking points on the floor and my frames for stand placement as well...... time to time I'd just redo them or scrub em off as well for a new car but NOTES BOOKS/PADS ARE KEY!......
Thats Bad ass tony. I like how you made the tabs. Now i learned something i can use on my prostreet to redo my radiator hold down thanks for the tips. Tony. Keep the tips coming
I'm retired motorcycle mechanic, but now I seem to be an amateur fabricator, making all sorts of things from new and used materials. I've learned a lot of techniques watching Tony and what I've learned will be put to use when I get started on my vehicle project.
Splendid work Fitzee. Nice to see a real builder. Using a computer is as fake as it can get. A real builder is in fact a builder, not a CNC worder. Keep doing what you're doing. You have it right!
Smart how you thought it through so that you can easily remove things to work on it and do maintenance in future but have it all together so you can run it !!! NICE !!! not like car are built today have to take them half apart to do anything even simple things like change a headlight bulb ! Very impressed GREAT job !!
I saw a channel that made 3D printed tube bender dies from PETG plastic sandwiched between 1/4" plate. Cost for the critical part was about $10, plus the bolts and 1/4" plate. I'm going to try it for my JD2 Model 32 bender.
Watching your videos made me get my welder out and start practicing again. Haven’t used it since before covid. I have a bunch of projects that need to be finished
Nice work, Fritzee! I would like to see your design ideas on making an adjustable shim for jack stands. I was thinking a 3 legged stand with screw tabs on the legs. It would sure save a lot of jackin' around. : )
Brilliant work, as always. I like how you walk us through your process, showing before and after when fabricating a piece, for example. You're a good teacher, Fitzee!
That's the way to do it reusing stuff and put one piece on it at a time and figure out what is it interfere with and what is it clear love the project love the videos please keep it going
heled my dad build a 55 ft ALL steel sailboat in our backyard about 30 years ago. We bent each of the 10-15 ft ribs by hand too. Love to see your ingenuity.
You could make yourself a tram gauge Fitzzie ,bassically a 6 foot pipe with two sliding collars with a T nut to tighten them where you want them and a couple 12 inch 1/4 rods with pencil end pointers welded to the collars. Basically a fancy set of dividers. Looking good man!
Exceptional conceptualizing and initializing of the front clip mounting brackets...its amazing what the mind thinks and sees...just a thought maybe u can flat bar strengthen the upper intercooler bracket tubing...leaving it open.makes it a.weak spot ...just my thought but you must have something in mind there👍👍👍
HOWDY TONY, BEEN WATCHING ALL YOU VIDS LAST TWO YEARS AND HAVE PICK UP SOME WIELDING TIPS. LOVE THE IDEAS YOU HAVE FOR THIS PROJECT THINKING AND PLANING TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT WORKS AND SIMPLIFY THE PROCESS. SUMMER TIME HERE IN AUSTRALIA 🌴 🇦🇺
Tony: you ever consider putting together a "Crusty" DVD series to sell? The amount of info and tips is overwhelming and to have the "frame" DVD (for example) at my fingertips would be amazing. Cheers from Thailand
Great Video. I’m restoring my 87 Suzuki Samurai and I’ve wanted to make a flip front end . These tips will definitely help out with the fabrication. On a side note I might have to plan a road trip to watch when the Corolla makes that 1st pass down the strip. Thanks for the tips. 👍👍👍😎
Necessity the mother of invention ! Well Done ! Makes it seem easy , yeah right . Lots of experience to come up with a work around to make this work . Your camera shows a very detailed picture . What Camera are you using ?
