What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45

Now we just need someone to carry out the pilot project by making and fitting a single rail deck to the SB design, then posting a thread spelling it out in detail, with dimensions and an explanation of how the bolt holes were located and drilled in the side plates.

Post-Edit: I suggest that someone should remove a side plate from a one-piece-deck SB45, lay it on a sheet of drafting mylar, and spray paint the mylar around the plate and over the various holes, to produce an accurate, dimensionally stable, template for the side plates on the mylar. This could be used to prepare an accurate drawing.

After that there will be a business opportunity for someone to start making and selling one piece decks and conversion drawings. The key requirement is doing it exactly to the Bowditch design, so the retrofitted mowers will be sort-of-authentic.

Last edited by grumpy; 15/08/13 09:48 AM. Reason: Add post-edit

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What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Bonnar_Bloke	07/08/13 07:01 AM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	grumpy	07/08/13 03:37 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Deejay	07/08/13 04:56 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Bonnar_Bloke	07/08/13 05:58 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Deejay	07/08/13 06:29 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	grumpy	07/08/13 06:36 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Bonnar_Bloke	09/08/13 06:18 AM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Bonnar_Bloke	09/08/13 06:22 AM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Deejay	09/08/13 03:53 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Bonnar_Bloke	10/08/13 06:35 AM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Deejay	10/08/13 05:52 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Deejay	12/08/13 06:33 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	grumpy	12/08/13 08:38 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Deejay	12/08/13 11:07 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	grumpy	12/08/13 11:13 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Deejay	12/08/13 11:28 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	grumpy	12/08/13 11:34 PM
Re: What Method is best for badly Cracked Rails on 45	Deejay	13/08/13 12:58 AM

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