Front Vents 2.5 - mesh fitted

Got round to bending, cutting and drilling the last piece of angle bracket. Marked and drilled upper mesh location holes. Screwed them back into place.

Lower Centre Vent - bracket work

I finally got round to making, drilling and tapping threads for the Lower Centre Vent, bracket.

Lower Vent Surround cardboard test internals

Lower vent, cardboard internals mock-up.

Made this up to check the fit for my custom made vent surrounds.
Have started on the metal version. Post pics soon.

Lower Front Vent Surround:

Finished off machine milling the lower Vent Surround. Internal & external shaped, angle on back face done. Edges removed, polished up a bit. Next, internals to build.

Lower Vent Surround

The works milling machine is now set up & 'free' again. So drilled out centre part. Then milled angle onto back face.

I need to counter sink the two screw holes more to make the back flush across.

Had two minutes to spare so polished up the surrounds outside visable edges.
Next, is to mill out the internal to size.

A busy week

I'v been busy this last week machining the lower front vent surround. Milled it to it's outside dimensions.

Just need to drill & mill out the internal part, then mill the 4 Degree angle on the back face.
Unfortunatly the Milling machine was then out of action for a day or so not wanting to waste any time, started machining up a Restraining Bolt on the lathe.

Then, after finding the part-off tool, parted off and tap an M10 thread in the rear face.

Also this week I've been filling and sanding plugs and other holes in R5's base (where I had had to cut all the way through it), and also covering screw heads.

Have also marked up some templates, for building the centre leg.