Ali transmission tunnel

[CobStang]

Not at all.
I use one every day for cutting curved shapes out of 1.6 and 2mm ali sheet, so quick and easy. Guillotine for straight cuts.

[Roger King]

chaps, chaps - this is a one-off ali tunnel (original - 1.6mm in new money) which will need a bit of bashing and fettling to fit around the shift mechanism (spot the lumpy dings in original ones), which will be covered in carpet. You really don't need to go to these lengths... If you really can't face using a 25-yr-old black and decker jigsaw (my instrument of choice), get your local metal shop to stick it in their guillotine for the long straight cuts. Methinks we're making this a lot harder than it really is!

[CobStang]

Merely trying to point out the options available, a quick look back at this reveals the carpet seems to be more complicated than the tunnel !
Hey ho.

[Roger King]

... a quick look back at this reveals the carpet seems to be more complicated than the tunnel !
Hey ho.

That's pretty much right... probably best not to try the plasma cutter on the carpet, though.

[Dave Woodward]

Beginning to regret asking.

All I wanted was a template

[amulheirn]

Sorry Dave - I hijacked your thread!

[Roger King]

Sorry Dave - I think the answer is, there isn't one - each car is too different to have set measurements. Hawks have fibreglass tunnels, Kirkhams have ali - which are a different shape/size from the 'glass ones so wouldn't fit the car.

[amulheirn]

Dave - I've got a Hawk fibreglass tunnel that isn't in the car at the moment. So would be happy to make templates for you if I'm doing it myself. But do I remember right that you've got a BRA?

[Migge]

If you make a new tunnel, let Roger make the template from his Kirkham because it's asymetric like the original one. The Hawk one is wrong like any other replica tunnel

[Dave Woodward]

Andy, it's not a BRA it's a Hawk.

Think I'll just make my own.

Thanks all for your many and varied inputs