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The Manufacturing Process
Fabrication of floor and body panels
1. The floor and body panels are made of sheet
steel, aluminum, or fiberglass. If sheet metal is
used the metal is cut to size in a sheet metal shear,
a machine that cuts it with giant scissors. It is then
fed into a roll forming machine, which shapes the
metal by passing it over contoured forming rolls.
If fiberglass is the chosen material, the floor and
body panels are formed as one piece by inserting
layers of resin-coated fiberglass in a mold and
allowing them to harden.
Chassis construction and painting
2. Tubular steel, which resembles square bicycle
handlebars, is cut to size and the edges beveled
(cut at an angle of less than 90 degrees) to pre-
pare them for welding. The cut, beveled pieces are
then placed in a welding fixture, and the chassis,
or frame, is arc-welded. In this process, an electric
current is fed out of the welding torch through a