View Poll Results: How would you like the mount better?
Back the way it was (black powdercoat)
3
6.52%
This way (polished aluminum cover)
11
23.91%
Diamond Plate cover (to match my toolbox & bed rails)
32
69.57%
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Newest little mod and need an opinion...
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Newest little mod and need an opinion...
Played around with a press punch machine in a shop I am looking at buying out of foreclosure. Have a week or so to "try before I buy" so I played today.
Made a winch mount cover out of polished aluminum. The pic still has the milky coating the aluminum sheets are shipped with, will hit it with some flitz and a buffer tomorrow.
Before:
After:
I punched this one out of "scrap", if I choose to replace it with diamond plate, I would have to go buy a piece, was quoted $70 for a piece large enough to get three out of it. I saved the "template" in the machine...
Made a winch mount cover out of polished aluminum. The pic still has the milky coating the aluminum sheets are shipped with, will hit it with some flitz and a buffer tomorrow.
Before:
After:
I punched this one out of "scrap", if I choose to replace it with diamond plate, I would have to go buy a piece, was quoted $70 for a piece large enough to get three out of it. I saved the "template" in the machine...
Last edited by HammerZ71; Jan 27, 2010 at 06:40 PM.
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This was my "practice piece" to kinda learn how to use the press ( and man did I have to remember my math to program it). Thinking about a custome grill. What do you all think? I can punch any shape(s) I can graph...
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