Greg 's truck pit

[Greg Young]

Greg, you are such a Burner! (about the highest compliment in my book...)

Greg

'86 PT-40 still working on the fuel problem inFt. Stockton TX

Each time you judge yourself you break your heart.
-Kirpal Venanji

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From: gregory O
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, October 21, 2009 11:00:09 AM
Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Greg 's truck pit

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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