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    johnboy is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
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    Crikey!
    That experience left me all shaky!
    I don't know if my heart can take shocks like that!

    Seriously though; the bus is making progress, albeit rather slowly, there has been the long Christmas / New Year break, and of course the Donaldsons had projects that had been booked prior to the eventual certification of our machine.

    The anchorages for the seat belts have been engineered, mounted, and certified.

    The floor is all done, and while not level, it is all now on one plane, sloping slightly to the front.
    That was a surprisingly major job; as it varied as much as 5/8" in several places.
    But it was achieved with string lines about a foot apart, and many packers of varying thicknesses.
    Straightforward enough, but time consuming.

    When we saw it last (about three weeks ago,) the wall panels from the windows down were being affixed to the walls.

    Arrangements too had been made to have the graffiti that the kids of Billings Oklahoma High School had written on the ceiling to be photographed and then transferred to the new ceiling.

    We're now about due to take another run up to Thames to check it out again.
    Last edited by johnboy; 01-29-2014 at 08:00 PM.
    johnboy
    Mountain man. (Retired.)
    Some mistakes are too much fun to be made only once.
    I don't know everything about anything, and I don't know anything about lots of things.

    '47 Ford sedan. 350 -- 350, Jaguar irs + ifs.
    '49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
    '51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
    '64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.

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