The current project status is that what I would describe as the major mechanical design is completed.\u00c2\u00a0 That is I now know:<\/p>\n
And most importantly of all how to tie all of this together with a structure that is as stiff as possible and has sufficient strength and is not excessively heavy.<\/p>\n
In short I’m at the point where I feel confident enough in the design to go start making it.<\/p>\n
The little list above took over a year of thought to resolve to this point, what I’ve now got is a design for the chassis frame that weighs ~125Kg for the steel tube framework including the roll frame and has a stiffness in excess of 15Kn Per degree which I think is sufficient.<\/p>\n
So the next thing to be done is to get on with fabricating the frame.<\/p>\n
I have a number of tubes that require bending as part of the design, not having the equipment to do this I’m now in the process of tracking down a company who’ll do this for a fair price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"