I've been thinking about chassis pick up points

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I've been thinking about chassis pick up points

Postby pigeondave » Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:46 pm

Ive been reading this thread on locostbuilders http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthr ... tid=196041

and I have seen some of the failures used as examples on friends cars, not as bad but similar to the one below

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My question is, why are the brackets welded to the top of the tube?

Wouldn't it be better to make the U shaped bracket with longer verticals so that you could slide it over the square section from below.

This would give a bracket that would take the vertical force and not the weld.

Just a thought.

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Re: I've been thinking about chassis pick up points

Postby adithorp » Fri Nov 04, 2016 1:09 pm

I think you're right but it would depend on the chassis tube being in the right orientation to fit. From memory, most of the pick-up points are at 90deg to the chassis tube... of course you could have an over size bracket and a square hole through it and thread them onto the chassis tubes during assembly.

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Re: I've been thinking about chassis pick up points

Postby pigeondave » Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:56 pm

adithorp wrote: of course you could have an over size bracket and a square hole through it and thread them onto the chassis tubes during assembly.


No i think that'll tear. as the hole would have a corner that would be the weak point.

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Re: I've been thinking about chassis pick up points

Postby adithorp » Fri Nov 04, 2016 11:32 pm

Well I guess if you're going to the trouble you might as well do it right and radius the corner to match the tube... Not doing that would just be silly, obviously! :lol:


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