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Old 06-04-15, 09:44
Ben Ben is offline
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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.
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Old 06-04-15, 12:28
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excellent work and you make it sound so easy
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Old 07-04-15, 03:43
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Dave,

Great to see you back working on your carrier. The workmanship is extraordinary. Looking forward to the day you fire her up.

Peter
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Old 07-04-15, 04:06
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Dave,

Great meeting you today and thanks again for those parts. Just a tremendous restoration job; this thread is an excellent log of your work and I'm glad I had the chance to see it with my own eyes. I'm very much in awe of your talents!

Following this with much interest!

Jason
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Old 07-04-15, 07:38
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Thanks for the comments everyone it has been a lot of work but I can see light at the end of the tunnel now


For the next paint session it was a great day and +15 so I started early thinking I had plenty of time but wrong, It was about 8:30 that night when I got finished but had great results
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Old 07-04-15, 07:46
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The next day I assembled the seat hardware together as well as the rear antenna mount so its ready to install when that time comes. The rear mount is a thing of beauty and I just polished up the brass and cleared it for the moment as I know it was painted but i like the looks for now.
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Old 11-04-15, 06:12
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So the next step I took was to install the vision shutters so I laid all of the hardware out and got it ready to install.

As I first tested it with the original spacers between the shutters I could barely move them up and down as it was very tight and would scratch that nice paint . So I made new spacers about .015 thicker and this gave them more clearance for better movement. I also installed some decal material a on the back side of each shutter so it would slide better and not do too much damage to the paint and its worked great so far
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