I thought about the frame stretchers overnight (LOL the slide show that happens when I try to sleep) and by morning I had
decided to make the front n rear buffer beams first

they were trying to do my head in, as at some point in the making of one of them, I made an almighty stuff up, with 8 holes
drilled in the wrong place, the stuff up was on the rear buffer, but I rectified it by riveting in some bar stock and filed it over

anyway I managed to make both buffer beams they look the part


then I needed to make the angle brackets using small section angle iron, drilling all the holes was a challenge, but
achieved without any drama's

and with some dummy spacers at 4.1250" in width

The first frame stretcher (drag box) was a fabrication of 5 different parts, its the rear one on the drawing

a lot of cutting/filing was needed to get the correct width 4.1250" then set up in a 4 jaw chuck to have a a 1.0000"
hole bored through both plates


the side plates had to be made clamped n drilled to match the holes in the frames, then welded together somehow

The back plate had to be a neat fit between the chassis rails and is welded to the drag box (frame stretcher) and holes drilled
that lined up with the buffer beam, these were tapped 6BA, through steel plate 0.25000" thick a nerve wracking task, break
a tap it's all over for that lump of steel, thankfully it didn't happen

shown here being held in by four hex head set screws, but I still need to file the rectangular hole for the hook

that was near enough excitment for the day, cheers