Evening All,

I'm wanting to make a pair of windscreen uprights and have been given a template traced on brown paper. Could anyone plese advise how to transfer the shape onto the material I'll be using for the uprights?.

Regards


David

You could tape the template to the metal, then make dots with a punch at all the significant points. Take off the template and join the dots!

David

Or use carbon paper.
YES, I know I'm old but you can still buy it.

I use spray mount. It's available at any decent art supplis shop, about £7/spray tin.

It doesn't go off right away, so you can adjust the pattern on the metal. It holds well enough for an angle grinder to do it's job, but a jiogsaw will sometimes lift the edge slightly. The easiest way to remove it is with a bit of heat; a hot air gun works well.

It works a lot better than tape because the pattern is held down over it's entire surface.

Another vote for using the dot punch!!
I either tape the template to the metal or wet it a bit so it clags to the metal, then dot through the paper as often as you need to get a good shape.

Double sided sticky tape. You can get nice wide stuff from B+Q... Comes off nice and easily afterwards and doesn't lift if you use a jigsaw on the metal...

Run the drawing through the photo copier and make a couple of copies.
If they are bigger than A4, do it in two and tape together.

You can then keep the original and use the dot punch on the copies.

The sprung loaded dot markers are useful tools for this sort of thing.

Paul G

Copy the drawing then cut out the copies stick on to surface and mist spray with aerosol paint then peel off.

Evening All,

Thanks for all the advice.

Regards

David

send me the template ill scan it and laser cut them for you hows that for an idea lol im feeling charitable tonight

Cut out the template, stick it on with tape and draw around it with a fine permanent OHP pen.

I used to use the centre punch method but it takes ages.

John