What have most people done regarding side panels i.e. have you made them one piece from front to rear, or in two sections as per the book with a line of rivets?

Cheers
Albertz.

mines not book, its got flat sides, but i did one piece of 18g/22g (cant remember which) welded in fully. looks a bit industrial but works well.

We've got FG panels and we have PU adhesive'd them on.

I did mine as per the book except for the front sections. If you can do yours in one go, you're a better man than me!

We manufactured ours in a single piece. It's perfectly doable just more of a fiddle. Make up a decent template and you'll be fine.

http://www.bass2dark.freeserve.co.uk/170703/170703.htm


Cheers

We made up cardboard templates and moved the holes around untill they all looked ok.Not hard but very time consuming but it meant the stainless ones fitted first time,thank god.

One piece in 1.5 mm aluminium. Make all the mistakes on cardboard templates and grow a couple of extra pairs of hands and it's easy.
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Thanks for the help. I have made a cardboard template for each side and hopefully it should be a case of transferring it onto the Zintec (using 1.0 Zintec as a replacement for the expensive Alu).

On the front section of the side panel, at the bottom edge, have you radiused it, or bent it to form a right angle? On my templates i have bent it to right angle, but i am noticing that some people have radiused this area instead. Is there any particular reason for that? cosmetics, simplicity?

Albertz

did mine in one piece aswell

looks better than i line of rivets down the side

i also radiused the bottom, just looks better i reckon
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Neither, did mine at 45 degrees.

ish!

[Edited on 18/5/04 by DavidM]