Not sure if anyone actually cares, but here is an update to my parts washer repair.
Today I took a piece of steel that I removed from a worn-out gas grill when we bought a new one. And even though the sheet steel was pretty thin stuff, I made a pattern and cut out a box to mount the transformer and switch and pilot light into, to power the in-tank fuel pump for the replacement pump that gave up the ghost!
Amazing how flimsy thin sheet metal is until you make bends and such in it. Then it gets really stout. The only reason I made a metal box was because try to find something that would work is near impossible...and costly. So I made my own.
The pictures show what I did. Once painted, and the parts installed, I think it will work perfectly...
Sorry for the blurred picture but I was trying to show what I started with.
I think this sheet steel came off the back of the gas grill.
I don't know how to rotate the picture, but this is my pattern I used. Simple and just a quickie to show me what I needed to measure out on the sheet metal.
Here is the preliminary cut metal ready for bending.
This the first setup to bend. And you are seeing the inside of that sheet metal after I polished the rust off.
And here is the bottom of that metal box after all the bends are finished. I will admit not all the bends were done on a metal break. I used different types of setups with my bench vice and heavy solid plate steel to help make the smaller bends. This is where a finger break comes in handy. But I haven't finished mine yet.
A picture of the inside.
This is a picture of the top and bottom of the entire box. The top slides over the bottom and I think I will use sheet metal screws for easier access if need be.
And the entire box loose fitted to show what it will look like. I still need to mount the parts and of course paint it and mount it. I may powder coat it. IDK yet!
