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Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
Going to attempt this tomorrow at work. I am a machinist so i figured what the heck might as well try it. If it doesn't workout, for sure I'm buying one from captainfab. His makes more sense anyway, dollar and speed wise, but I like to make design and machine things. I'll let you know how it turns out
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
seen this on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/1960-1966-Ch...EKbSkvoE0B8xrQ
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
Yea that's not going to work. Mine will be a solid chunk of 6061-t6 and be machined into a very nice piece. I'll post pictures when complete
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
Couple pictures. Mine piece will be a fully enclosed unit. Won't be able to see any hardware. It will look like a solid aluminum block and that's its. Almost done with it, just need to make a few adjustments.
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
I ended up modifying the bracket quite a bit more. I'm happy with the end result and it should look good on the truck. Here are a few pictures
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
very nice !!
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
As someone who is just getting into machining and routing that piece looks like it was a bit complicated. Maybe not from a design perspective, but looks like you may have had to flip it a few times to mill all the sides, unless you have a $$$ machine that will turn it all for you.
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
SiggyFreud your correct. Mill both ends for parallelism. Do all the detail work like counterbores and bolt hole locations. Mill the profile. Turn part on end at 45 degree angle, 4 times for clearance for the bracket to booster bolts. If I had an indexer, much faster. I could machine this parts in about 25 minutes if I refined the process a bit
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
Yeah sounds like a pain. I'm still learning/refining my process to do 2-sided cutting since I don't have a good edge finder. Right now I'm zero'ing my work at dead center, and just using measurements to find that center. Then I cut/drill through into some spoil material at two locations to set an index and use a bit or dowel as my location tool. Very much a pain in the butt.
I definitely had some crazy idea that this would all be much easier to jump into than it is haha. |
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Re: Anyone ever made a power brake booster bracket out of aluminum?
No problem captainfab. And just as I stated, one of the machines is down.
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