Greg 's truck pit

[gregory O]

Tim and I had some time this weekend and worked on the shoe. We tried
to attach wire mesh or screen to the metal frame for a foundation to
hold spray insulation foam. the mesh idea was hard to deal with so we
decided to add some 3/16 steel rod between the 3/8 inch rod for a
better foundation for mesh wire. the result turned out to be more
artistic than intended and we decided to scrap the foam process for the
first parade and enter the shoe as a steel-etto.







adding more 3/8 rod







below is the frame with 3/16 rod added to the steel-etto







the frame looked good as a steel structure but now we need to remove
and rebend some structural 3/8 steel that is not up to par.Notice the
strap steel that wrapped the outer heel was removed and I need to make
the center 1x1 square tube pieces into a truss to hold the 3/5 of the
shoe weight and strong enough to be a leaver for some fold up
engineering I am thinking of doing







with the 1x1 center square tube re welded up as a truss It now will hold me (175lbs LOL ) and some of the cage weight







I needed to use a plasma cutter to remove the center heel supports and
a torch to heat the cold rolled steel to add strength
to the critical
welds on the high carbon rod.
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