Sheet metal & Jeep question

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:29:50 -0600, Jeepers
> wrote:

>The words "Jeep" on the side of Jeep CJs is embossed with the letters
>painted on top. Actually the raised surface is more like Joop with the
>'e's put on. My Jeep project CJ-7 is "Jeep Deere", Green & Yellow. I was
>toying with the idea of adding the word "Deere" below the word "Jeep",
>on raised sheetmetal like the original. I suppose it would look like
>"Dooro" then the letters would go on top.
>
>I considered bondo, but I don't think it would work at that thickness. I
>might be able to do it in lead and I even considered doing it with a
>body hammer, carefully. I have the skills, but I'm afraid that I might
>get the sheetmetal too thin after I sand & grind.
>
>Any ideas or suggestions?
Along with the sand bag and pitch suggestions I would add that a shot
bag might be better. The shot bag is a leather bag filled with lead
shot. The bag is made of three pieces. Two discs and a strip of
leather. The discs are sewn to the strip to make a round bag with
straight sides. But what may work better is to cut letters out of
sheet that is as thick as the depression is deep. The letters should
have the edges radiused on one side. Then, press the letters into the
back side of the sheetmetal while supporting the the other side with
polyurethane. See http://www.bonnydoonengineering.com/ for an
explanation of this process.
ERS

Jeepers proclaimed:
> The words "Jeep" on the side of Jeep CJs is embossed with the letters
> painted on top. Actually the raised surface is more like Joop with the
> 'e's put on. My Jeep project CJ-7 is "Jeep Deere", Green & Yellow. I was
> toying with the idea of adding the word "Deere" below the word "Jeep",
> on raised sheetmetal like the original. I suppose it would look like
> "Dooro" then the letters would go on top.
>
> I considered bondo, but I don't think it would work at that thickness. I
> might be able to do it in lead and I even considered doing it with a
> body hammer, carefully. I have the skills, but I'm afraid that I might
> get the sheetmetal too thin after I sand & grind.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
>
Do you have any local hobby groups that could help you with light
metal casting? Is quite easy to do with just the heat available
from a stove or barbeque. Can be done into sand or lost wax style
mold.

In article >,
L.W.(ßill) Hughes III > wrote:

> I think it needs the "John" part of Deere also.

Thanks, but it's part Jeep, part Deere, Jeep Deere.

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"Jeepers" > wrote in message
...
> The words "Jeep" on the side of Jeep CJs is embossed with the letters
> painted on top. Actually the raised surface is more like Joop with the
> 'e's put on. My Jeep project CJ-7 is "Jeep Deere", Green & Yellow. I was
> toying with the idea of adding the word "Deere" below the word "Jeep",
> on raised sheetmetal like the original. I suppose it would look like
> "Dooro" then the letters would go on top.
>
> I considered bondo, but I don't think it would work at that thickness. I
> might be able to do it in lead and I even considered doing it with a
> body hammer, carefully. I have the skills, but I'm afraid that I might
> get the sheetmetal too thin after I sand & grind.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
>
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Hi Jeepers,
Here is some flames being embossed into a panel, you
could try something similar.
http://allshops.org/cgi-bin/communit...9801 09747695

regards,

John

"Jeepers" > wrote in message
...
> The words "Jeep" on the side of Jeep CJs is embossed with the letters
> painted on top. Actually the raised surface is more like Joop with the
> 'e's put on. My Jeep project CJ-7 is "Jeep Deere", Green & Yellow. I was
> toying with the idea of adding the word "Deere" below the word "Jeep",
> on raised sheetmetal like the original. I suppose it would look like
> "Dooro" then the letters would go on top.
>
> I considered bondo, but I don't think it would work at that thickness. I
> might be able to do it in lead and I even considered doing it with a
> body hammer, carefully. I have the skills, but I'm afraid that I might
> get the sheetmetal too thin after I sand & grind.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
>
> --
> Member AAAAAAAA
> American Association Against Acronym Abuse And Also Ambiguity.

Make the letters from metal stock maybe 1/4" thick (or the approximate
"thickness" of the Joop) and pre-drill each letter. Then using short sheet
metal screws, attach from the inside of the Jeep. Just a thought. Have to
find some easy metal to work with and jig it, aluminum maybe?

How about this. Talk to a water jet shop and have them cut you the Dooro
letters out of an appropriate thickness of steel. After these are cut,
grind a radius on them and weld or screw them to a thicker plate.

Sandwich a piece of soft body steel between your die and a chunk of rubber
and stick it in a big press. Make the blank a little bigger than you want
and then cut out the Spot you want next to the Jeep logo and position the
plate and cut it to fit your hole. Weld all around and grind flush.

You can probably go to a sign shop and have them cut some vinyl letters to
finish the job or cut a paint mask you can peel off.

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.

"Jeepers" > wrote in message
...
> The words "Jeep" on the side of Jeep CJs is embossed with the letters
> painted on top. Actually the raised surface is more like Joop with the
> 'e's put on. My Jeep project CJ-7 is "Jeep Deere", Green & Yellow. I was
> toying with the idea of adding the word "Deere" below the word "Jeep",
> on raised sheetmetal like the original. I suppose it would look like
> "Dooro" then the letters would go on top.
>
> I considered bondo, but I don't think it would work at that thickness. I
> might be able to do it in lead and I even considered doing it with a
> body hammer, carefully. I have the skills, but I'm afraid that I might
> get the sheetmetal too thin after I sand & grind.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
>
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