New Hampshire CMP Barn 2011- 2012 HUP Overhaul

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

Well after several months of work on the HUP which never seemed to show any progress to completing the over haul Visible Progress Resumes. My real problem was I go to a point were almost everything was being held up my needing to paint major parts.

Though we still had snow left from plowing at the beginning of the week the snow is now gone and we are having high 70s low 80s F weather. First step was pulling the HUP chassis out of the other garage where it has been sitting all winter. I move it to the garage bay that normally houses my car to keep it clean as I continued to work on stuff in the shop. As you can see from the photos of the divots left in the door yard the ground is still soft. Though this was going to be a major undertaking but in the end once I go HUP turned I was able to tow it and push it in to the main shop, even got it centered in the bay on the first try.

Off with the wheels and a little cleaning and it was ready for the flat coat of OD which I sprayed on today, tomorrow I hope to put the wheels back on and get ready to lower the body back on. Then the really serious reassembly can begin again.

[Bob Carriere]

....one man show.

Been getting the same warm weather up here.... what a pleasant break.
Actually did a small bit of sand blasting last weekend. Finding that some of my cab 11 sheet metal had been trimmed and modified with a hot torch. In the process of establishing how much had been removed by inspecting similar parts on the other cab 12 Grant and I concluded that we had better spare parts from a cab 12 that needed less repairs........ did I not say in the past that you cannot restore a truck without two or 3 spares for parts......

Noticed some interesting differences in the inner fenders and floor plates of certain cab11 / 12 will follow up with pictures on the Hammond barn site.

Cheers

Bob