How I Reinforced a Weak Frame (Part 2 of 2)
This picture is quite an important one because it will be introducing a new method on how we can adjust the gussets in order for them to be able to be successfully attached to the frame. There is a bolt on the frame that won't let us attach the gusset without it being adjusted. So we have to make a hole by where the bolt is in order to attach it. The picture just displays how the drill saw works and what it basically is, a mixture of a saw and a drill bit.
This picture shows the gusset I made and with the adjustment of the drill saw. The hole was opened to make the gusset look more clean and add a bit more of aesthetics to the gusset. This adjustment will finally let us attach the gusset to the frame without the annoying bolt in the way.
The picture above shows the gusset being held against frame with a few c-clamps. The camps are used to hold the gusset in place when it is lined up with the edge of the bars. While being held in place I will drill in the holes for the rivets. As you can see the drill saw made it possible to attach the gusset to the frame with ease. This is the last gusset to be added onto the frame.
This picture is the beginning of the second part of fixing the frame, it's the bracket era. The dolly at the bottom of the frame need to move anywhere with the frame and in order for that to happen we have to attach the dolly to the frame with brackets that will be made of aluminum. The picture also includes a shear that is powered by an air compressor that is used to cut aluminum on a bigger scale.
This picture shows a piece of aluminum with the measurements of a bracket that were measured using a ruler and a sharpie. This sheet is bigger because the measurements will be along the whole sheet so that multiple brackets can be made in one day than making one right after another.
This picture shows the brackets made with the piece of aluminum from the picture before. The brackets have holes on top so that it is possible to drill a hole into the frame in order to attach the bracket to the frame with rivets.
The picture above shows the same bracket, however is has a bigger hole on the flaps because a bolt will go in through there instead of a rivet since the material we will be going through is wood instead of metal.
This picture shows the holes on the flaps of the brackets being made more bigger with a drill press since the hole puncher wasn’t big enough. These holes were made bigger since a bolt was going to be put through the hole instead of a rivet like the holes on the top of bracket.
This picture shows an example of why we are making the hole bigger and how the bracket is supposed to look. There are two bolts going through the bracket in front of a zero background. The bolts will be going through the wood of the dolly and are supposed to be secured to the frame using nuts.
The picture above picture shows me measuring a bolt since I need to find the right size nut that will go along with the bolt to secure the dolly to the frame. I was measuring the size of the bolt with a caliper which is very accurate when measuring thickness or any small measurements. Along with the width if the bolt I had to count how may threads there were on the bolt as that is equally as important as the thickness of the bolt.
This picture shows the same bracket on the frame, next to the gusset, and attached to the frame using two rivets that secured it. The rivets were placed in the holes that we punched using the hole puncher that was used in the power mechanics room
This picture shows me attaching the bolt to the wood. The bolt has a nut and 2 washers, a flat washers which spreads out the pressure of the bolt on the wood so that it doesn't ruin it, and a lock washer which is supposed to lock when the bolt is tight enough in order to stop the bolt from coming loose from the wood after some time.
February 6th
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