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Looking through the roll cage requirements these brackets look a nightmare to make, 6mm plate bent round a tube  I think I need a blacksmiths! anyone know where these can be bought ready done??

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Not at all..... all you need is a welder, a hammer, and a decent butane/propane torch
..... oh - and I'd advise making a saddle to run a tag down each side of the rear stay, not just one side: for comps, you MUST have two separate mounting points for the two separate shoulder-straps (3-point harnesses are no longer allowed)

If you have a scrap bit of tube lying around, use it, rather than working on the main cage

• Tack/clamp the mind-point of the saddle - try using a big vice as well as tacking.
• Heat the plate until its glowing cherry-red, and tap it round with a nice meaty meaty hammer.
• Keep working both sides, trying not to break the tack holding the steel in place.

Once you've made the saddle, you can shape it & get it in the right place on the rear-stay BEFORE welding it in place

(that's how I did mine, anyway )

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Not at all..... all you need is a welder, a hammer, and a decent butane/propane torch
..... oh - and I'd advise making a saddle to run a tag down each side of the rear stay, not just one side: for comps, you MUST have two separate mounting points for the two separate shoulder-straps (3-point harnesses are no longer allowed)

If you have a scrap bit of tube lying around, use it, rather than working on the main cage

• Tack/clamp the mind-point of the saddle - try using a big vice as well as tacking.
• Heat the plate until its glowing cherry-red, and tap it round with a nice meaty meaty hammer.
• Keep working both sides, trying not to break the tack holding the steel in place.

Once you've made the saddle, you can shape it & get it in the right place on the rear-stay BEFORE welding it in place

(that's how I did mine, anyway )

I shall try this once I find a torch big enough, will try next door

cheers

better with oxy/acetelen torch more heat