Truth be told Jim, you're not alone. In fact, I
think that might be how chopped tops really got
invented. By the time the tubing was "CORRECTLY"
cut and fit, the top bar was half way down the
windshield and side windows, and it proved easier
to just chop the top down to the level of the
main hoops rather than re-do the cage.
hee hee hee
Dick J
In East Texas
--- Jim Dincau <jdincau@qnet.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Had a humbling day in the shop today.
> Contrary to my success with the
> firewalls last week, today I ran out of
> mistakes to make while fish mouthing
> roll bar tubing. Made em too short, made the
> angle backwards, even made one
> with the two hole saw cuts at right angles to
> one another. The hole saw I am
> using is too short to go all the way through so
> I have to flip tube over to
> finish the cut. No I don't want to buy a new
> hole saw this one is doing
> spectacularly, about fifteen joints on .120
> wall DOM mild steel and it is
> still cutting like new. Anyway I was cutting a
> 31 degree angle and when I
> flipped the setup over in the drill press I
> forgot to change from uphill to
> downhill. Screwiest looking thing you ever saw,
> I will have to keep it to
> remind me when I think I can do no wrong.
> Keith, one of the best things in the NHRA
> museum is the enlarged
> photograph of the crew working on the Warren,
> Colburn and Miller car in a
> regular one car garage while its raining. The
> good old days before mobile
> machine shops and five spare engines..
>
> Jim in Palmdale
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