It was a busy weekend, but I didn't get as far as I had hoped. I got side tracked with a little hiking and goofing off.
It turns out that notching on the mill is pretty sweet, but that the hole saws don't stand a chance when things bind up.
The bridgeport has way more torque than the saw can handle. I snapped 2 HF saw arbors, ripped the threads out of 2 Rigid hole saws, and destroyed this one. All of the problems except the arbors were my fault. The two arbors were HF so I didn't expect much.
That got me to where the frame is 90% finished. So I moved on to the leaf springs. I must admit that I have never had a leaf sprung rig so I am totally baffeled with the idea of a leaf spring. But I forge ahead and designed some mounts.
I love cardboard, and it was super easy to convert into a CAD file to cut out.
The end results look good, but won't work due to the leaf springs change in length. I need to leaf spring to mount about 2.5 inches close to the frame kickdown. Not a big deal, a quick redesign and they should be good to go.
I also worked on some body mounts. The CNC table worked wonders, but I had to build a break for my press so I could put the bend in.
With this I was able to move the frame around and see where I stood.