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Merry Christmas!
On black Friday I brought home one of these. However it did not pass scrutineering. Lovely wife side upgrades are needed.


So I welded up a proper roll bar and installed a 5 point harness. Just finished at midnight Christmas eve. The hardest part was cleaning up the media from the sand blaster.

Awesome job.:tup: someone is going to be surprised. Have a Merry Christmas

I bought him a bigger Kart for his birthday but it is too big and fast for a 5 year old. So this one should be good for a couple of years until he can fit in the bigger one.

Wow! How did you bend the tube?

HF 12 ton tube bender. works great. It is definitely thicker then what the directions said it could bend. I took it slow, bent/ release/ repeat just in case, but it bent it like a champ. It is a new favorite in my tool box. My wife saw how good it bent steel and said she has a list of projects for me now. :)

The steel I used was thicker than the karts steel so I had to favor the thicker stuff. I love playing with metal. Once my boy gets old enough I want to pick up a crashed Ninja/CRB 600 and make a silly go kart.

Got a link to that? I don't recall seeing that at HF.

I used a 25% off coupon too.

http://www.harborfreight.com/12-ton-...der-62539.html

I always wanted one of those. I'm always fabing something up.

I've read that some people have had poor luck with those, often calling them tubing kinkers. Good to hear that you're able to make yours work so well.

My first test piece it flattened. I just popped it in and cranked until 90 degrees. The next one I went slowly and backed off a couple of time. You need to make sure you have the correct die and are in the center of the die.

If no access to a rosebud torch, I wonder if heating workpiece in a standard oven would ease it. Watch-a-ley, hot stuff. But if you say it's do-able, probably safer not to try it.

Good work pistol...HNY!

Also, if mamma knew about webbing, that would be next.

I've found that some sort of spray lubricant on the tubing helps as well. Even WD-40, since it's cheap.

Ah yes, Her brother came over and is big into racing with the regional Porsche Club mentioned that as well. It will be next.

Also incase my lovely wife is reading these if someone mentions an on board halon system I think that is overboard.

Weld and BB you guys have great tips. Gonna try those next time I'm bending.

From the looks of it you have done fine without Monday morning quarterbacks.:lmao: