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henry, thanks.

chris, always a pleasure to hear from you my friend!

dirk, thanks, buddy!

joe, thanks! the tubing diameter i used was 5/16". scales up to 2.5" tubing. which is a little small but, as close as i could get. plastruct sells 90deg. and 45 dec. bends. for any of the bends that i couldn't use a pre-bend i either hand bent or used the fixture in one of the previous pics. i posted. for instance all of the bends used to make the collectors were bent in my fixture. i hope this answers your question. feel free to ask more.

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just thought i'd throw this out there. i did made a set of headers from stainless steel one time. tig'd them up. they were such P.I.T.A. i never did them again.

i dug one them out for viewing. the collector was made by heating the stainless tubing and pressing over a mandrel that i made. i have the mandrel somewhere. anyway,plastic tubing is soooo much easier to work with. i stopped trying to make stainless ones.

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Stainless is difficult to work with but it doesn't rust and polishes great. I make most of my suspension components from 316.

45% silver solder works great to join parts and if you flow it in rather than pile it on, it blends in to the parent metal.

I have been wanting to try laser welding on some of the parts like brackets etc but I live too far from a company who will

let me use their machine. Ever had any dealings with laser welding?

Your rig is coming along great.

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joe, no problem on the info. one of the reasons i hang around.

david, stainless is a very pretty metal. i love the luster it creates. too bad it is such a ball breaker to work with. haven't had the chance to get involved with any laser welding. closest we get to at work are some of our suppliers laser cut our stainless parts.

mark, thanks a ton!!!!

scott, there's a matching header somewhere in my basement. i happened to stumble onto this sunday night looking for a tool i misplaced. i can tell you there won't be a new pair any time in the near future!! hehe!

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Dave... you are a true craftsman... Holy Crapola on the Stainless headers.... Those are beautiful and am sure they were a pain in the butt to make....lol Love your work

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Dave.... fantastic work my friend. That header is gorgeous. Are you sure you didnt pull out the mini TIG welder out for those ;). Nice work buddy.

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WOW Dave!! Those are awesome! OK, another question...I see no one asked how you made the beads. Everyone else must know but me...lol. How was that done?...Joe

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chris, thank you!

tom, glad you like it!

henry, thanks!

scott, thanks buddy!

chris, how did you know about the mini tig? thanks my friend!

dave, thanks. the photo was VERY cool buddy!

joe, the welds are decals. you can get them here. http://www.archertransfers.com/

joe b. i'm glad too. thanks !!

bob, thank you!

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joe, they are 3-d, so to speak. they have thickness. my understanding is they actually print a resin "eyebrow" so to speak onto a waterslide backing. they also make rivets, arc welds, louvers, all kinds of stuff in all kinds of scales.

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well first of all thnx for sharing all those awsome progress pictures and explanations ... second .. i just can not put into words how incredible this looks ... just amazing to watch and better then any tv program or movie hahahaha

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