how you doing my name is jeff fray feature guest host here with well.com on this episode
i'm going to be building a camera car mount for my boy chris with project prime he does
a lot of work with cletus mcfarland at the freedom factory so i'm going to show you the
build process of this thing and then i'm going to show you it in action so let's get at it
all right we're going to be making a camera mount off the back of this bmw for chris at
project prime we're going to come from this opening within the bumper with some tubing
that's going to go up to support his gimbal style camera but first we need to
come off of the bumper bar frame rail right there with a piece of square tube that's going
to stick out with a plate that plate's going to allow us to bolt this fixture back here
to support the camera got the bumper off the car now now we're going to go ahead and clean
the spots up here where we're going to weld the square tubing to and that's what our camera
mount is going to bolt to so this thing can be removable so i'm gonna go ahead and get
all this prepped this here prep this is what we're gonna use three inches long and then
put a plate on the end so we're gonna bevel this edge so that plate gets a real good weld
on there it's going to support a lot of weight it's got to come down out and then up so it's
going to be using a lot of leverage so we're going to beef up the back sides of this plate
as well we got a paint abrasive wheel here going to go ahead and clean them up so we're
not just relying on this little mig weld here so we really got good structural support
all right we got both sides of these flanges welded out here we use the boiler er70s2 332
wire on here that should do the job very well we're going to go ahead and cut these old
exhaust hangers off of here as well now we got to prep this surface on both sides and
then prep our three inch square tube so we got the root put in this one here uh we got
to go ahead and fill it out like we got over here i already got this weld made if you see
my rig doesn't get in here on the angle that i'd like so i'm going to put this bent piece
of tungsten in here to help us get in there and then as well if you look on the back side
of this flange here i cleaned up the paint off of there i'm not going to rely on these
baby mig welds on the backside of this flange to support all this so i went ahead and cleaned
that up put some wire in there help beep this thing up uh get these last couple of welds
made and then we're gonna get on to the tubular side of it and uh build the part that's actually
gonna support the camera and it's gonna bolt into here so let's get at it
so i'm going to take you through making a coat just out of a some cardboard templates
i got here we're going to be using a porta band and a grinder to do this so i'm going
to show you with simple tools and things laying around that you'll be able to make a template
to be able to recreate this perfect fit every time this job is going to consist of all 90
degree fits like this so it's going to get utilized a dozen times on this so we're going
to make a nice good template and uh i'm going to show you how we're going to do that i made
the wrap this around here put some tape on it and then you're gonna get you a piece that
we're gonna cope to i want this inside of the pipe here to lay against the weld so i
can maximize the fill here so i'm gonna set this on top of the pipe and just look down
from the top to where this edge aligns with that inside edge and then from there i'm gonna
mark around it
and then that'll give me a template i'll make this one cut and then i'll show you how we're
gonna fit this to there and then mirror it 180 on the other side so we get a square fit
[Applause] all right now i'm going to take the four and a half inch tiger ball i have
here and i'm going to grind this inside bevel back to that line so i don't have this big
old gap here
all right we got that ground now so i'm going to go ahead and slide the the template over
here i'm going to make it flush with the end there take a file in within the the spot that
i ground there i'm gonna back drag my file and that's gonna cut the template here i found
uh using the back drag method works better than if you use the file as intended and more
so will tear the template so
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i'm going to fold it so that aligns that's going to give me a center line on both sides
here now mark those
and then from there oh bring that line down
we're going to align those
now
we're gonna get some scissors cut that out and then we'll have a square fit there
got my plate cut here this is what we're going to be mounting to this is what's going to
be the removable part of it i got to drop down and go underneath the bumper bar up here
and then go up so it's not ideal to just weld the tube like that so what i'm gonna do i
cut a two inch piece here that i'm gonna weld to the plate and then i'm gonna take the coat
side and put it against there and weld it to not only that piece of pipe but to the
plate but i'm also gonna notch this back so i get a better weld in here and i'm not having
to do this long stick out and try to fill down in that crevice there so we're going
to cut that back and it's going to notch into that piece of plate there it should should
work out real nice for what i want it's going to be a little bit of leverage on here so
i want to try to maximize the most amount i can on this plate here to give us the most
support
[Music] so all right we got our two inch stub piece of pipe welded out to the plate you
see i got this vent hole here that's gonna vent out all the tubing so when i put this
piece here i've got it fit there now all the rest of the pipe is going to have to escape
the air on the inside when i weld it
so that's going to be the end where it escapes
got both the pieces welded out and bolted in uh i just took this measurement across
here it's 20 and a half inches inside the inside so i'm going to take this piece measure
from that inside cope to the inside of the other side then we'll take our standoff piece
and build it out and around so i just test fit the piece on the car i was about five
inches to the back side of the upright to the trunk lid when it opened i'm gonna bring
that into about two inches that way it has plenty of clearance and if we have a clamp
there uh it won't interfere as well so i've got this measured back three inches on both
of them i'm going to use my template here i got the square in to utilize for my square
cuts so i have a nice wraparound for that as well so i got my stub out pieces that are
going to come off of the car cut now i cut some end caps for them as well like i said
i weld those ground those it's going to match the front of the car they gave it a really
cool look uh so i got it fit up on the bench here i just set the bumper bar across there
and then rested the pieces that are going to stub out off of there with the spreader
bar that's going to come off of the back that's going to actually support the the vertical
piece put a piece of tape on each end to allow me to put my square in here so i got both
of those fit up real nice both sides so i'm ready to go ahead and tack it up i got the
everlast power tig 210 ext set it 132 amps we're going to utilize some boiler 70s wire
got some 116.
i'm going to go ahead and use that to tack it off with and then roll this thing out cut
the vertical piece welded out everything there is welded out i'm going to make a couple of
gussets that's going to go from here and offset back a little all my weight is going to be
supported off of the back of this so it's going to be pulling on it so i want to offset
it back some i went ahead and made another wrap around template like i did for the other
coat and this time i'm gonna allow the pipe to push the the piece in and it's actually
going to conform to it and then this is going to give us a good indicator to start with
to make one of these fix so i got that one drawn up and cooked really nice i'm gonna
just lay it up in there now if you see i got a center line drawn on the back of that i'm
going to utilize that to transfer the mark to this bottom side i'm going to use the bottom
side of this template here to get the template for the bottom one so i'm just going to go
over how i laid this out i found this line on the pipe here that's i'm going to use for
that center line for my stencil so i went ahead and laid this one out square on the
end now from where my test piece of pipe touched the the intersecting piece of pipe i used
that length to determine how long this piece needed to be it was 16 and 7 8 from inside
to inside so from here i made a mark at 16 and 7 8 and then that became the inside you
seen i brought it around of this coke here now all i gotta do is take an overall length
for my second piece and then i don't have to lay this inside out again i can just flip
my template inside out i have the overall length i already have that same center line
marked all the way across the pipe in that spot and should have two perfect opposite
fitting pieces all right got both pieces fit in there real nice go ahead and get the machine
turned on grab my hood get this thing welded out got to get a powder coat in the morning
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