Hey all, first post. Im working on a motorcycle project and I ran into a cool part online that I want to fab up myself. Its a small recess for an LED strip in the sub-frame hoop of a motorcycle. It looks really clean as a finished project, but I'm having a hard time coming up with an efficient process for it. Heres a few pictures of it, let me know if you can think of an easy way! Best I've thought to create the recess is to mill a slot in some heavy gauge sheet, run it through the roller to the appropriate curve and then weld it in place. What do you all think?
I think that is pretty much how that part pictured is made. The trick is to going to be getting the light slot centered up on the bend.
As OcalaWill mentions, I think you're pretty much spot on. As long as you can get the lighting band spot on, you should be laughing. Measure twice, cut once, right? ;P
Thanks guys! Very cool, Im pretty new to all of this so I wanted some reassurance before I got into it. for keeping the slot on point: I was thinking I would vise the tube and use the mill to run the Slot in a perfect line. The question is do I need to do that after I bend the tube? Out of curiosity, I may run a slot in a scrap piece of tube then pull it through the bender to see if it holds its shape.
