Originally Posted by
Ultraorange
I've got a plan inside my head. I want to cut some lugs but after scouring the web Pretty much all of the lugs I've found(investment and stamped) Just don't offer the amount of material I need. So I was looking into Cutting and welding my own lugs from tube. This is my intro into welding. If there are any people here that could point me in the direction of some further information that would awesome. Optimally I would be getting a lug blank in the order of a Hetchins, I want a lot of room to play.
OP; Just buy a few feet of chromolly tubing and make your own lugs leaving as much length in the legs as you desire. Get .058 wall in sizes 1/8" larger than each of your tubes and start notching to fit your frame design measurements. As far as published info or articles... not much that I have seen. Best advice I could offer is to notch your lug pieces as you go such that you can use the same angle settings on your tubing notcher you used to notch the frame tubes...and avoid your lugs not matching your frame design. Should the question be in your mind; yes you can tack them together in your frame jig with a low cost MIG unit ($80 or so). Then pull them out and finish weld the junction between the two lug pieces before beginning to cut and shape the lugs. I usually put the scallop cuts on the pieces before tacking them together to minimize file work.
Post if you have specific questions going forward
/K