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What do make headers out of?


GaryR

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STILL searching for the right material!
Not sold on solder, tubing kinks, solid plastic is so inflexible.

So, what do you use?

Please post some pics, especially of weedburners ( weedsweepers ), process and final result would be good!

 

THANKS

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On ‎9‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 10:07 PM, Straightliner59 said:

Closest thing I have to weedburners are these. They are made from thin-walled plastic tubing made by a company called Contrail Model  Aircraft (https://www.scalemates.com/companies/company.php?id=569 ) .

I inserted aluminum wire into the tubing to help it keep its shape through the bends.

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Awesome FED by the way.

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Gary... I made my headers for the Army Vega Funny car out of Brass. I didn't have many issues other than I have about 30 hours into these headers. Here are some pics of how I build them.:

 

Here is the Tube Bender I used its a Dubro Tube Bender for RC Airplanes that I picked up

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Here are all 8 Tubes That I had fabricated and are ready, I did have a pile of bends that either I didn't get at the correct angles or I went a little too far. I was sort of a trial an error at first since there was no way to mark and measure them the same like a traditional tube bender I have used for flared tube. Once I figured a system out it wasn't bad at all:

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Next I started making some Templates for the Header Flange out of plastic then used the template to transfer to the brass pieces:

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Cutting the header flange's with my razor saw a miter box, my headers were made by hand and not machined for this build:

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Here are the Completed flanges and now I am drilling the mounting holes with my pin vise:

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After I had completed making the header flanges, I used them to transfer drill the holes into the heads:

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I then made a jig to hold the headers so that I could solder them together:

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Here I have placed the headers in the jig and they are ready for solder:

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Here is the Completed 2nd header:

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Here is one set completed after soldering:

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Thanks Gary... These headers I did are 1/16th Scale.  I recently picked up another tube bender from Habor Freight. I will have to take some pics of it for you and get you the part numbers of the Dubro tube bender I showed above plus another Dubro one that is the same but different size tube. I believe one is for  1/8" Dia. tube and the other 5/32" Dia. tube

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