Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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I'm telling you guys, the Home is where it is at. I used to go there with my Girlfriend to visit her Mom, and I've never been pinched on the behind so many times in my life.


Well, I took everybody's suggestions and cut out the center of my seat bases today, getting ready to put some webbing across the hole. I think that is a great idea, and thank Brian and everyone who contributed it.

While I was there I painted the interior side panels and under the seat with black bed liner. I know it will be getting overspray on it when I paint the car, but I plan to put one or more coats over this one. I want no light coming through the body, and doing that should insure it. I didn't do the portions of th stringers where the upholsterer will be stapling and gluing upholstery and carpeting, for the reasons I mentioned yesterday. It will just make his job that much easier.

I also made up a stainless steel switch panel to go under my seat. I am going to use them for my fan, electric fuel pump, headlights, horn, etc. I am going to put my ignition switch in the dash because I hate fumbling around under the seat to insert a key, but I had the same arrangement of switches on my '27, and after a while you can go by feel to turn on what ones you want. I may engine turn the panel, but for now I just sanded it to give it a brushed look.

Here are some pictures of that progress.

Don

Hmmmmm...............reminds me of grandpa's two holer..........just need a Sears catalog hangin' on the side..........

Yeah, it is kind of "crappy" workmanship, isn't it?


Don

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Hmmmmm...............reminds me of grandpa's two holer..........just need a Sears catalog hangin' on the side..........

That definitly reminds me of the old 2 holer we had at the one room school house when I was a kid.

Seriously, Don, it's looking pretty good and also sturdy as heck. Nice job.

Doesn't two holers have round holes..........LOL
Brad

I gotta get some upholstery on there REAL QUICK to cover up those two holes, otherwise I'll never hear the end of it.

Yep Duane, if nothing else, it is solid...........and HEAVY. Dan and I flipped it the other day, and he commented his '29 steel body is actually lighter. I am just about through the 4th gallon of resin, and somehow have used up about 12-13 yards of mat, so it certainly isn't going to flex. If you have ever picked up a gallon of resin you know how heavy they are, so 4 X that has added some weight to it.

By comparison, when I got the body I could pick it up and put it on the frame by myself. He and I were both happy to set it down the other day, as it was pretty heavy to hold. It reminds me of some early production fiberglass boats. Back when they started using fiberglass they didn't know how strong it was, so they built the first generation boats as thick as they had been building wooden ones. Some of those boats were the best ones ever made. I had a 1965 Chris Craft 27 footer, and when I cut a hole in the bottom for the depth finder transducer, it was 1 inch thick down there !! But the boat was a tank, and even after years of use never had one stress crack. New boats develop stress cracks sometimes before they ever leave the dealership because they are building them so thin nowadays.

Don

Don,

I like your woodwork. (4th photo) Is this a "build-by-the-numbers" kit?

Yeah, kinda like "insert tab A into slot B........." I knew when I would start glassing I wouldn't have time to be thinking what went where, so I did the number routine to speed the process. I've been trying to sand the numbers off, but now I see why they call those things permanent markers.

I even did a chart that I hung up. At my age, you need all the help you can get.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

........the end of it.
Don

Did you really mean to phrase it that way??

Don....just a thought, you may know this trick already.....when you cut the nylon webbing, hold a match or cigarette lighter to the cut ends to melt the cut fibres together.......it stops them fraying.

johnboy

Originally Posted by BradC

Doesn't two holers have round holes..........LOL
Brad

Not everyone is advanced as we are here in Ohio.

Originally Posted by johnboy

Don....just a thought, you may know this trick already.....when you cut the nylon webbing, hold a match or cigarette lighter to the cut ends to melt the cut fibres together.......it stops them fraying.

johnboy

That's a good idea Johnboy. We had an electric hot knife when I worked at West Marine to cut the webbing with. It sealed the edges as you describe so they would not unravel.

I'll have to rig up something to do that on each cut I make, or just use some heat,as you suggested.

Thanks,

Don

Don small pensil torch may be just the answer. Very small flame and easy to control the heat . Worth a shot at HF for a couple bucks . A can of butane .

Reminds me i hit some flea markets in W.Va. last week and seen the largest can of butane ever . Was as tall as a liter bottle and about 2 inches in diameter.

It just so happen's that I'm at the same point, well sort of I actually drove my T tonight. I was going to, and probably still will build bomber style seat's, but Goodguy's is this weekend so I am making a mad dash to have something to sit on. I made the platform, mine will not be divided by the tunnel because I don't have one, I made the cut out's then I started looking for something to use for the webbing, I truely hope my daughter doesn't miss the tow strap I confiscated from her jeep.:It seem's like it will work.

I ran out of time tonight to finish, but I will finish it tomorrow (as far as the webbing) if I can get my computer to cooperate I will post some pic's.

I really like the seat's Dan put in his car, but those could be budget killers.

Ron

Bobby, that's a good idea about the torch, and I am pretty sure my Son has one. That's what I'll do.

Ron, you are that close, huh?? Great. I love the towstrap thing. You are just getting even with her for all the stuff she borrowed from you, I bet. I never feel bad about using some of Dan's stuff, because he had no reservations about borrowing my tools and things when he was younger. All of a sudden he has gotten protective of his stuff, and I have to remind him every so often about him using mine.

Shoot us some pictures, please.


Don