replacing/fixing door strut fixing brackets.

[Darren C]

Just finished welding the "captive" Stainless nuts on the rear of the parts this morning.

Finished brackets below.

Pm me your address Mark and I'll post them out to you with fitting instructions tomorrow. Cheers

[flux3d]

Will do mate. Thanks again, I owe you one.

[mec]

Once again superb crafsmanship from Darren ! I wish you could work on my car for a few weekends it would be better than new !

[andyd]

Lovely Darren!

(and I haven't forgotten I still owe you a spring. I will get it in the post- promise!)

a x

[flux3d]

I know what you mean. These brackets are far better than anything else out there offered by the normal vendors, and thank goodness someone posted that video of the surface mounted brackets. Shocking amount of movement! I can't imagine how the guy felt after fitting those, only to see that!

Darren continues the great tradition of English back room, workshop engineering which outclasses the world.

[jerzybondov]

+1 Amazing work Darren! How many man hours is it to put together a set of brackets like that if you've got the right tools? Still quite a few I'd have thought?!

[Darren C]

Cheers Guys,

I only use a hacksaw, file and drill. Oh and a mig welder. All BASIC tools, nothing more nothing less. Schoolboy stuff really.

Gez, These took me about 6 hours on Saturday and 2 hours on Sunday to make. The hardest bit is hacksawing the shapes out from a large sheet of 3mm stainless plate by hand.

[Dangermouse]

The Henninger brackets are bloody awful looking.

Hi guys

I want to share this video against these Henninger brackets https://picasaweb.google.com/1105335024 ... 8227393922

I think Dmc.eu brackets are simpler and better.. unless you have serious damages in the fiberglass area...

Best wishes

Is this link dead?

EDIT - nvm - just needed to use Firefox instead of IE

[ALEXAKOS]

Dang man! Hyphestus him self!


Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse typos etc

[Darren C]

You guys crack me up….Alex, you ain’t seen nothing yet. I love the God who made armour reference!

Really, its simple basic engineering that anyone can do in their garden shed with just a few basic tools.
I love working with Stainless Steel it’s a great material and so versatile. Here’s a few other D.C. Shed Industries recent Stainless Creations…..
Apologies for going off topic and hijacking the thread Mark, but hopefully it will inspire you guy’s to have a go yourselves.

Here’s a week in the life of my Shed Industries. (This is in my spare time, I do have a day job)

Fuel Tank

Some of you are aware I’m building a DMC car, some may not. It’s a “Darren Motor Company” Shed Industries Special. So far I have made my own chassis and a few weeks ago I made a Stainless Fuel Tank. Because its going to be a 4 seater that I want to handle like a mid engined sportscar I have placed the engine behind the front wheels and the fuel tank is going on top of the rear axle to give minimum overhang weight to the front & rear.
After designing it in my head I made a cardboard template.(ignore the frame its sitting on that for something else.


Then I cut it out of stainless sheet, machined the fuel sensor boss, and fuel vent, supply and return fittings on my lathe. Designed an internal baffle and cut it out. Finally Tig welded it all together, fitted an alloy wheel tyre bolt in valve and pumped it up to 20 PSI to test for leaks and left it 48hrs. All good to go.