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I placed a copy of this post here because it might be of some use to someone planning to and/or actually building a Batman v Superman DOJ Batmobile.
A month, or so, back I bought 5 used dually steel wheels at a car parts junk yard after spending a day sorting through the used steel wheels at several. One of the workers told me they came off a 1981 2-1/2 ton delivery van but he did not know the make or model. These are very heavy duty steel wheels stamped out of 1/4" plate steel. To be 36-years old and to probably have traveled many thousands of miles all of them were in excellent shape other than a little rust and a few scratches. Used an acetylene torch to cut the centers from these wheels and then trimmed and ground them to fit some new 12 inch wide single wheel 16.5 heavy duty truck rims. Once I get all 4 wheels to this stage I will begin more detailed fitting and accuracy alignments. There are a number of concentricity and angular alignments that must be correct before welding can begin. vertigo
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| Posted 10/2/2017 6:33:49 PM |
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I place a copy of this post here for the potential benefit to anyone
planning to and/or actually building a Bat Vehicle.
So, how do you get the best accuracy from your Positional Welding Jigs
to Improve Your Bat Vehicle Fabrications?
ELIMINATE AS MANY AS POSSIBLE SOURCES OF MOVEMENT AND PLAY
Build your positional welding jigs, rigid and strong, enough to
prevent them from being easily deflected by lines of applied force and
torque. (bending and twisting motion)
Secure your work pieces in your jig(s) with plenty of tight clamps,
bolts, hold downs, etc. Every piece that can be easily moved with the
fingers will be no match for the metal drawing forces of welding and
will surely move out of alignment if not heavily secured. Shaking,
tugging, and pulling on your mounted up jigged parts will usually
reveal any wobbly weaknesses. Use tack welds and tactical welding
techniques to balance welding induced lines of force.
When using tube and solid bar jigs to align part assemblies that have
some distance between them (like my Tumbler’s two separate front arm
and axle assemblies) all concentric wobble must be eliminated if you
need an accurate linear alignment.
I used oiled thin sheet metal wrapped around the solid bar enough so
that it took a light tapping with a hammer to ease it into the
alignment tube.
It takes a rigid strong jig, well secured parts free of movement
and play, and tactical welding to equalize the lines of drawing
(contracting) forces to produce high accuracy assemblies. vertigo
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| Posted 10/6/2017 6:17:56 PM |
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| hey Vertigo... how wide are those dually wheels you found? that's a great score!
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| Posted 10/6/2017 6:46:51 PM |
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The dually wheels I cut the centers out of were listed as 16.5" x 6.5" wide.
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| Posted 10/7/2017 3:49:11 AM |
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| ok great thanks... man they look a lot wider than that in the picture!
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| Posted 10/7/2017 8:59:43 AM |
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I cut the dually centers out of the 16.5" X 6.5" wheels.
Then I welded them into 16.5" X 12" steel wheel shells.
The wheels in the pictures are of the salvaged dually centers welded into new 16.5" X 12" steel wheel shells.
The over all width of the welded wheels is 17" wide.
vertigo
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| Posted 10/7/2017 3:57:30 PM |
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| Posted 10/7/2017 7:39:05 PM |
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I placed a copy of this post here for the benefit of anyone that might
be able to use this information in planning and/or building a Bat
Vehicle.
A month, or so, back I bought 5 used dually steel wheels at a car parts junk yard after spending a day sorting through the used steel wheels at several. One of the workers told me they came off a 1981 2-1/2 ton delivery van but he did not know the make or model. These are very heavy duty steel wheels stamped out of 1/4" plate steel. To be 36-years old and to probably have traveled many thousands of miles all of them were in excellent shape other than a little rust and a few scratches. Used an acetylene torch to cut the centers from these wheels and then trimmed and ground them to fit some new 12 inch wide single wheel 16.5 heavy duty truck rims. Once I get all 4 wheels to this stage I will begin more detailed fitting and accuracy alignments. There are a number of concentricity and angular alignments that must be correct before welding can begin. vertigo
Finished detailed fitting and accuracy alignments. Worked out concentricity and angular alignments. Then clamped everything in place for each wheel. Satisfied, I used 180 degree opposed tact welds to divide the wheel radius by quarters. Then by eights and then by sixteenths. After completing all the tact welds and letting them all cool down to the touch I re-measured each wheel for measurement integrity. Finally, managed to find enough time to run one welding pass on each of the four wheels. vertigo
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| Posted 10/9/2017 6:03:51 PM |
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Placed a copy of this post here for the potential benefit to those
planning to/and/or/ building a Bat Vehicle.
Paulwayne
“Hi Vertigo its actually just a large co2 fire extinguisher. I
extended the hose from the extinguisher which sits beside me in car. I
bought a cheap set of recovery flashing strobes and wired them into
the centre of afterburner. I simply switch on strobes then squeeze
handle of extinguisher. Still looks decent at day time as stobes are
very bright.”
reference material:
In Hollywood TV/Film and music/dramatic stage shows CRYO LED CO2 JETs
are used quite frequently. I have attached photo images of the
“INDUSTRY STANDARD” for this special effect. Note: Look closely at the image of the CRYO LED CO2 JET. Note the LED arrays located at the base of the nozzle.
In the world of special effects the Industry Standard refers to: A
technical standard used in technical contexts. Most special effects
companies have a go to reference library. So, if a director said I
need a cold flame jet effect they would usually start by referencing
the relevant Industry Standard(s). vertigo
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| Posted 10/19/2017 8:01:44 PM |
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By the way. I got my Hot Wheels 1:18 Elite Batman v Superman Batmobile.
The detail is outstanding and plentiful. The big rear wings are fully articulated. Hydraulic cylinder rods and steering move.
This rear wing detail alone makes this worth the price to anyone planning to and/or actually building this Bat Vehicle. Lots of other building information contained in this model. No regrets on buying this model. vertigo
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