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| Re: Aluminum Grill [message #202078 is a reply to message #202076] |
Mon, 18 March 2013 21:46   |
JohnL455
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Or satin black the grill mesh. Metal surround looks good bright. Should flow air better than OEM.
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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| Re: [GMCnet] Aluminum Grill [message #202097 is a reply to message #202076] |
Tue, 19 March 2013 06:28 |
jhbridges
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Location: Braselton ga
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Uh, Kerry, if you decide you don't like it, quote me a price. If I can afford it, I'll take it off your hands. :)
--johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
'76 palm beach.
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From: Kerry Pinkerton <Pinkertonk@MCHSI.com>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 10:39 PM
Subject: [GMCnet] Aluminum Grill
I didn't have time to do this but I needed some metal time so I made this grill. Not sure how I like it.
Photos in this album...text here.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/g6328-aluminum-grill.html
Started with some 1/8" (.125) aluminum I bent into 1x1 angles. Each piece was only 4' long so I had to weld several pieces together.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6328/z_0011.jpg
The corners were too thick to stretch that far so I cut them out and bent the flats to the proper shape.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6328/z_0021.jpg
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6328/z_0031.jpg
There was a LITTLE bit of metal shaping. The sides have a curve in them that needed to be shrunk...the big kick shrinker easily handles 1/8" aluminum....well it handles it fine...can't say the same for my knee.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6328/z_0041.jpg
Here is the frame roughed in:
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6328/z_0051.jpg
The center pieces were also shrunk then welded to the rest. After the welding, it was metalfinished with a vixen file. The discoloration is a difference in the alloy of the welding rod (1100) and the angle (3003). The only way to avoid this is to shear thin strips of the parent metal and use this for rod. Not sure how much it will show up once the frame is 'brush finished'.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6328/z_0071.jpg
The corners were welded in and metal finished also. Not completely done here:
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6328/z_0091.jpg
And here it is in place but not fastened down.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6328/z_0101.jpg
The grill cloth is actually the woven stainless that we found at McNichols Metals during the LazyDays rally in January. The tabs will be painted black so the grill appears to float in the opening.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6328/z_0121.jpg
I did a blind bolt fastening system but am not happy with it and will probably cut it off and just go with countersunk stainless.
I'm not sure I love it.
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Kerry Pinkerton
North Alabama, near Huntsville,
77 Eleganza II, "The Lady", 403CI, also a 76 Eleganza being re-bodied as an Art Deco car hauler
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| Re: Aluminum Grill [message #202114 is a reply to message #202076] |
Tue, 19 March 2013 08:45 |
PettyVTX
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Kerry that surround would be a good product to sell then the buyer could install his own center. I would buy one from you I have my own center (skulls) I would like to install in mine.
Ex Avion now looking for a 23'
Jeep Wrangler Towd
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| Re: Aluminum Grill [message #202131 is a reply to message #202127] |
Tue, 19 March 2013 11:16 |
kerry pinkerton
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| Harry wrote on Tue, 19 March 2013 10:39 |
How about the same thing in thinner stainless?
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Only the woven mesh in the grill is stainless. The surround is 1/8" aluminum. There really isn't a good way to stretch a radius that small in aluminum without it tearing, regardless of the thickness. Aluminum work hardens, gets brittle, and fractures when you try to take it that far.
If someone wanted to make the grill free floating and supported by something other than the frame, the frame could be made from .063 aluminum. Same problem though.
Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
Had 5 over the years. Currently have a '06 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
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| Re: [GMCnet] Aluminum Grill [message #202144 is a reply to message #202135] |
Tue, 19 March 2013 13:33 |
Jerry Wheeler
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Speaking about a grill, last week I emailed "Grillcraft" and also
"Grill4you", asking them if they could make a new grill, similar to what
Kerry has done; I told them it would be a very limited market. But I have
not heard back from either outfit. My guess is they are not interested
and didn't bother to reply.
JR Wheeler 78 Royale NC/OR
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:59 PM, David H. Jarvis <jarvis210@shaw.ca> wrote:
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> I was thinking of the frame in light guage stainless, then the welds could
> be sanded and polished.
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