My first carrier: some assembly required

[Marc van Aalderen]

Hi Dave,

It looks beautiful already and it is not even finished. Hope we can see the completed project in the near future. Keep up the good work and the photos coming!

Cheers,

[super dave]

Originally Posted by Marc van Aalderen

Hi Dave,

It looks beautiful already and it is not even finished. Hope we can see the completed project in the near future. Keep up the good work and the photos coming!

Cheers,

Thanks, I hope it will be done soon myself as it has been a long haul but see light at the end of the tunnel

[super dave]

Well the Calgary gun show was great and had a lot of goodies, Purchased a few items and even filled robs pockets with a little cash and had a great chat as well as with his side kick Derk.

After the fabrication of those bits I spent some time to straitening out the drivers and gunners bins as they were slightly pretzel shaped from being in the ground, Overall I was very happy with the end result

[super dave]

Now that was done I got all of the vision slot shutters and hardware ready as I had some repo and original pieces that I am using for my carrier. One of the items I cam up with is the specialty screw heads that go through both of the plates and the glass frames. A while back I was at a friends where he was restoring a M3 scout car and it used a lot of countersunk slight dome head bolts and when I looked at them they looked like the ones used on the carrier as I had a couple original ones for comparison. As I was using the specialty nuts on the back side that were of the BSF thread and the scout car bolts were too short anyhow I just cut them down and got some BSF bolts and welded them onto the ends and did a slight bit of back cut on the counter sunk side and presto it worked great and you cant tell the difference.

[super dave]

Now that was done in was time to get ready for another painting session so I decorated the tree once more. There were a lot of little bits and pieces to hang

[super dave]

Once hung a I prepped a bunch of the bins and brackets as well for a full session of painting I had to do some minor repairs to some of them like replacing the small ball studs that the straps attach to as well as some replacement steel as some of the pieces were rusted out. I found that Holly has these ball studs that are used with there carburetors.

[Ben]

Decorating the tree in preparations for paint....... The story of a carrier restoration, it brings back memories of mine.

Fantastic looking job, it'll look great once you're done. It has all the nice little trinkets.