Boxing Plate Extension

Post by **rich-legg** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:31 am

Is this supposed to be a Boxing Plate Extension panel?
It looks nothing like the original!

I think I'm going to have to make my own!

Post by **kennatt** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:59 pm

yes thats what it is ,not very good are they,I got one and cut it up to fit but sometimes better to make your own,I didn't think mine was very robust but thats how things are nowadays.

Post by **Mick_Anik** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:50 pm

Maybe take a look at Eveline's restoration thread, and see just how good home-made panels can be.

Steel up to 1mm thick is easy to bend. A length of rolled-steel joist or something similar is a handy piece of kit for tapping against. I grind the RSJ edge square, and then delicately round the corner off just a smidge.

It isn't hard to make a metal bender from scrap......just google "how to make a metal bender.....lots of info!.

Panel fabrication is the best part of it all for me. If you have the patience, the skills soon develop, and steel is cheap enough to buy for practicing.

Once you get good at it, you can save a fortune on panels during your lifetime. A few chisels, some sharp and some rounded to varying degrees, a couple of hammers and a few molegrips and pliers are enough to make almost anything.

For the professional finish, floor panels can be profiled to add rigidity by building up a collection of steel blocks and tubes. Just warm up the metal with a blowlamp to ease the profiling, and hammer with a rounded chisel against the profile in the steel block, or against the edge of a tube for a round profile.

Two steel blocks can be help in place on a plank of wood, and profiles obtaining by hammering the steel into the space between
them. In this way, you can adjust the width.

It's all a lot easier then you might think.

Again, there's a full panel-beating course on the net!

Post by **Mick_Anik** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:58 pm

Try this for inspiration :):

http://www.artmetal.com/brambush/forging/proj06/

How to make a Jaguar rear wing from sheet steel. All you need is 72 pairs of molegrips, and (I think) a big 'G'-shaped thingy with metal wheels for 'rolling' the steel under screwed pressure.

I cannot, and will never be able to, do this!

There's a 'next page' clickupon at the bottom of each page.

Post by **IaininTenbury** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:06 pm

Its a boxing plate extension for a traveller, which are different to the saloon version which has another lip on the top each that the interior trim fits to. The one inthe pic would fit pretty well to a traveller. Sadly it seems that not all suppliers appreciate the difference in these parts.

Post by **Steve_PFJ** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:31 pm

I had the same problem. The supplier I used seemed to think they were the same on traveller and saloon.

I added the missing bit.
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Post by **jonathon** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:42 pm

The issue is not the suppliers but the manufactures who only supply the traveller version. Getting the big two companies to manufacture parts in significant numbers to a degree of accuracy to original panels and to invest in tooling is a big issue, and one that is getting worse every year.