Dinosaur Fossil Stand

[ZTFab]

My wife's Uncle is a High School Biology/Physiology teacher and he called me last week and said he had a project for me.

He shows up with this Fossil that he believes is part of the femur of a Brontosaurus that he bought at an Estate sale.

The Fossil is in two pieces and and he wants to display it in his classroom but he wants to be sure the top part wont fall off.

I built this out of aluminum based on what he told me he wanted.

The base plate is 18"x18" of .250" 6061-T6. The main rod is 28" of 1.25" solid round bar. The other parts are made up of some 1" solid round bar, .500" solid round and a piece of .500"x1.00" solid.

The top support bracket is made from a section of 7" x .250" wall round tube (to follow the contour of the bone) and the bottom bracket is made from some 2"x2"x.250" aluminum angle.

He will be adding rubber to the mounting pads and figuring out some sort of clamp to go around the top.

 

[ng8264723]

Really cool
nice job!!

 

[cowboy73]

Very nice! That looks better than most of the displays at museums I've been to.

 

[ZTFab]

Thanks guys!

 

[A_Pmech]

Nice design, its very minimal and I like that.

I assume he'll be using some kind of museum fixative to hold the pieces to the stand?

 

[Omphaloskeptic]

ZTFab, nice work once again as we've come to expect from your shop!

Most of the kids in the uncle's class will ooh and aah about the old fossilized bone, but I'll bet there will also be present some 'Future Wrench-heads of America' represented in that class. They're the ones who will be looking wide-eyed at your support, saying "Check out those welds would-ya'!"

I do believe I've seen similar hardware on that same Brontosaurus....

I think the leg was broken on the job due to 'operator error'; I wonder if they had L. & I. coverage back then? lol

 

[ZTFab]

Nice design, its very minimal and I like that.

I assume he'll be using some kind of museum fixative to hold the pieces to the stand?

Thanks A_P!

That was my intent with the design. Modern, yet simple, to contrast the 20 million year old fossil.

Yes, he will be affixing the fossil to the stand...(not quite sure what he will use yet).

 

[ZTFab]

ZTFab, nice work once again as we've come to expect from your shop!

Most of the kids in the uncle's class will ooh and aah about the old fossilized bone, but I'll bet there will also be present some 'Future Wrench-heads of America' represented in that class. They're the ones who will be looking wide-eyed at your support, saying "Check out those welds would-ya'!"

I do believe I've seen similar hardware on that same Brontosaurus....

I think the leg was broken on the job due to 'operator error'; I wonder if they had L. & I. coverage back then? lol

LOL...thanks!

 

[NASTYZEN]

Not every day someone walks in with a Dino bone to mount. Cool project Paul, and real pretty also, as usual.
Probably would of affected the center of gravity, but I would of set the bone a little higher off of the ground plate on a small pedestal or rod or something so you could see underneath it more.
Still a brilliant mount though.

 

[dmw56]

That is a beautiful stand! Nice work.

 

[fergus]

Sweet!

 

[ZTFab]

Not every day someone walks in with a Dino bone to mount. Cool project Paul, and real pretty also, as usual.
Probably would of affected the center of gravity, but I would of set the bone a little higher off of the ground plate on a small pedestal or rod or something so you could see underneath it more.
Still a brilliant mount though.

Thanks Claude.

I had thought of doing that but the bottom had been previously ground flat and the combined weight of the two pieces is about 150lbs so I figured that the more stable I could make it, the better.

That is a beautiful stand! Nice work.

Thanks!

 

[GeoTracker90]

Your fab work and design talents are with out compare. Thanks for sharing; it looks exquisite.

Mike

 

[geologist]

Bronto bone? Interesting.

 

[Outlander]

cool project! congrats to you and the uncle!

 

[ZTFab]

Thanks everyone.

He picked it up today and loves it.