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Building Chassis For Our 1967 Chevy C10 Sheetmetal Bulkheads

9a. If you recall from the Feb. '07 issue of Sport Truck, we ran an article on how laser-cutting works. Well, here's the finished product of that story, sheetmetal bulkheads that we'll use to mount the differential to. The bulkheads were cut from 1/8-inch-thick chrome-moly steel with a ton of holes that we punched with dimple dies. Dimpling the holes made the flat steel stock incredibly strong. Once Mike Kim was through TIG-welding the structure together, it was nearly bomb-proof.
1967 Chevrolet C10 Custom Chassis Fabrication - Picking Up the Pieces

 9a. If you recall from the Feb. '07 issue of Sport Truck, we ran an article on how laser-cutting works. Well, here's the finished product of that story, sheetmetal bulkheads that we'll use to mount the differential to. The bulkheads were cut from 1/8-inch-thick chrome-moly steel with a ton of holes that we punched with dimple dies. Dimpling the holes made the flat steel stock incredibly strong. Once Mike Kim was through TIG-welding the structure together, it was nearly bomb-proof.  View Related Article

 

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