Can't really consider this a "homebrew" since I made it at work but here it is....

 

Also making some coil spacers......adjustable ones in the future maybe.

 

looks great!

 

Thanks. Not totally done yet with the clevis receiver. Still have to make the pin holes and finish polishing it. Then my brother is going to chrome it for me.

 

Very jealous of the access to the lathe...


Both look great

 

The shackle receiver was done on a mill and an edm. It's awesome to have access to so many cnc machines.

 

dude make me some awesome coil spacers

 

The one pictured or the adjustable ones I'm thinking up?

 

Brutal!

What would you want for a copy of the hitch, just out of curiousity? One to accept a ball, one with a vertical tab to accept a shackle?

I suppose bending up & forging a matching shackle would be out of the question, tho...

 

adjustables sounds sweet. are you basically thinking of copying the ACOS design?

Hey if you're willing to make me either of them I'd love it. Not really keen on poly ones...

 

Probably not the acos. More like these-



Not sure what you mean? But I'm out of that huge hunk of stainless. I could probably do it in cold-roll though.

 

those would be awesome

 

just curious, what did you use the edm for, the hole in the reciver?

 

Sounds like I may have to order a chunk, if and when.

Speaking of - do you have the facility to weld CRES there? I do envision a ball mount being a bit different (more adjustable,) but I still like the idea of solid CRES for material. The shackle mount can be straight, no trouble, but I crank on enough about how people can't keep trailers rigged properly around here (a trailer should sit close to level when it's hooked up) that there's no reason I shouldn't be able to hook up a trailer properly myself. Besides - having a trailer down at the nose levers up on the front axle, which diminishes steering; having a trailer up at the nose levers up at the rear axle, which diminishes tyre-to-pavement coupling and drive power transfer (which is why trailer attitude and tongue weight are so important.)

 

Ya, who knows when I'll get it done though....

The flats and the holes. EDM's are more my area of expertise. I know it would have been a lot easier to do it on a mill but I've never really messed with them.


Not sure if we can weld that or not.