Re: Fitting my spider-mirror relocation

[Ed Lutz <montjuic@domain.elided>]

Thanks Paul,
Nope, no heat. I just bent it using a plastic mallet, my vise, and a bit of 
brute force. I use this cold rolled steel a lot and find it bends easy 
without heat and doesn't seem to fatigue. Once bent it holds its position 
well too. A bit heavy for some applications but it works.

Ed

At 02:07 PM 3/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:54:20 -0500
>From: "Paul S. Novak" <psnovak@domain.elided>
>Subject: RE: Fitting my spider-mirror relocation
>
>Ed,
>Nice simple and clean solution.  How did you get the smooth bend in the 1/8"
>steel?  Did you apply heat first?
>
> >You may remember my asking about options for moving the mirror on my '74
> >Spider so I could see out the front right side. I was going to try a
> >stick-on mirror but then had an idea. My idea turned into a new mirror
> >mount which I fabricated this evening. It was rather straight forward to
> >make and only took a couple hours of time. I replaced the stock mirror
> >mount with a new one that curves up to hold the mirror near the height of
> >the top of the windshield. Kinda clean if I do say so myself ;).
> >If your interested, pictures can be seen on my web site. Just follow the
> >Alfa link....
> >http://home.earthlink.net/~montjuic/

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