View Poll Results: How would you like the mount better?
Back the way it was (black powdercoat)
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This way (polished aluminum cover)
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23.91%
Diamond Plate cover (to match my toolbox & bed rails)
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32
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Newest little mod and need an opinion...
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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.
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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:
![Name: 0115001132.jpg
Views: 78
Size: 79.8 KB](https://dodgeforum.com/forum/attachments/3rd-gen-ram-tech/92671d1501389246-newest-little-mod-and-need-an-opinion-0115001132.jpg)
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![Name: 0127001743a.jpg
Views: 80
Size: 60.8 KB](https://dodgeforum.com/forum/attachments/3rd-gen-ram-tech/92673d1501389246-newest-little-mod-and-need-an-opinion-0127001743a.jpg)
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; 01-27-2010 at 06:40 PM.
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