{"id":397,"date":"2017-07-23T16:32:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T08:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2017-07-23T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T09:00:31","slug":"july-23-2017-start-of-the-sheet-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"July 23, 2017. Start of the sheet metal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is \/ was a design flaw in the car in that I didn&#8217;t pay too much attention to the sizes of aluminium sheet available. As a result I ended up with a design where I should have used 2 cut down 1200 x 2400 sheets but as I didn&#8217;t think of that beforehand making the 2 sheet solution work would have been ugly.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore I had to find 1 big sheet to do the whole piece, which thankfully enough was available (6100 x 1830 x 3 5083 grade) if I paid the stupid shipping cost, which I did. \u00c2\u00a0So now the floor of the car can be done end to end and sideways in one bit. \u00c2\u00a0Here it is delivered, its a bit thinker than I&#8217;d like but it was the thinnest available at the size. \u00c2\u00a0It was cut in half for delivery as I can deal with a 6.1m long sheet in the shed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170503_180920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-380\" src=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170503_180920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4048\" height=\"3036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170503_180920.jpg 4048w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170503_180920-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170503_180920-744x558.jpg 744w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170503_180920-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170503_180920-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4048px) 100vw, 4048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With half of it needed for the floor all the other remaining parts yet to be cut can come out of the other half. Here&#8217;s the first part made:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170603_181902.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-381\" src=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170603_181902.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4048\" height=\"3036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170603_181902.jpg 4048w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170603_181902-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170603_181902-744x558.jpg 744w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170603_181902-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170603_181902-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4048px) 100vw, 4048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other parts that had been laser cut in times past needed folding and fitting, I found making a wooden template to fit the hole then bending to suit worked with the tea tray type parts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_123013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-393\" src=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_123013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4048\" height=\"3036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_123013.jpg 4048w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_123013-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_123013-744x558.jpg 744w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_123013-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_123013-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4048px) 100vw, 4048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_140207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-392\" src=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_140207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4048\" height=\"3036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_140207.jpg 4048w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_140207-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_140207-744x558.jpg 744w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_140207-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170408_140207-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4048px) 100vw, 4048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170409_124210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-387\" src=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170409_124210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4048\" height=\"3036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170409_124210.jpg 4048w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170409_124210-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170409_124210-744x558.jpg 744w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170409_124210-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170409_124210-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4048px) 100vw, 4048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThere is \/ was a design flaw in the car in that I didn&#8217;t pay too much attention to the&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/?p=397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;July 23, 2017. 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