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18-12-09, 12:43
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More progress
Found some screw head countersunk bolts for the floor. They arent quite the same diameter as the originals but very close (slightly smaller) they are also not high tensile. The only high tensile ones I could get had an allen key head.
We'll see how they go. Just as I was getting some momentum & starting to fit the seat runners, Ive discovered the timber has shrunk or warped or something. Because the holes don't line up with the floor   Ill be able to drill them out a bit I think as long as the edges dont split. If they do, I really will chuck a wobbly......... The main thing that really makes you feel like your progressing at the rate of an asthmatic ant with a heavy load of shopping. Is cleaning up old bolts. Its certainly worth doing, but brother!! is it tedious...... The only thing that keeps you awake is when one gets sucked into the wire wheel, then fired out with an almighty bang to some random location in the shed. You spend the next 10 minutes on your hands and knees looking for the bloody thing, then proceed to repeat the process once you get back to the wire wheel.
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18-12-09, 19:19
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Large countersunk screws available......
The large countersunk screws are readily available in Canada from Spanauer in Toronto...... in various size and various length....... and like the original on our cab11/12 they are not high tensile strength and could be better categorized as plain old fashion stove bolts. We have to remember that most body/sheet metal bolts on the cab 11/12 are of that same quality /category ....plentiful old stock item at the outset of the war.... and trucks were not intended to last for 69+ years.
Bob C.
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18-12-09, 21:52
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Spanauer - French for spanner???
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Get back to me on that one will you Bob? 
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18-12-09, 22:00
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19-12-09, 03:08
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Spelled it wrong...
Tryhttp://www.spaenaur.com/.....
Waga Waga Grong Grong....???? what were you drinking when you where visiting with Jiff....... you guys better find some shade..... all that Hoostralian sunshine is bad for you...... ..... you should be sampling some clean clear friggen cold Ottawa air Minus 25 Celsius tonite.... not as bad as Edmonton last week when they went down to Minus 45 Celsius..... that is actually 3 degrees colder than my mother-in-law's heart..... The cats in the shed have 3 x250W heat lamps and two x1500W heaters...just to keep 9+ or 10 degrees C in there. Boob
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19-12-09, 03:34
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Tony, when I want to clean up a bunch of old bolts I throw them in a large kitchen type screen strainer and hit them with the sandblaster. Keep shaking them up and sandblasting for a while and they come out bright and shiny. Doesn't seem to bother the threads either.
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20-12-09, 10:14
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Thanks David
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Great suggestion & interesting how it doesnt affect the threads. My problem is access to a sandblaster and a suitable area to blast (meaning somewhere where you can either make a great big mess or suitable stuff to retrieve the sand/shot). I am having a blast however.
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19-12-09, 03:34
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Minus 25C?
Grong Grong and Wagga are the opposite at the moment - PLUS 27C. Good CMP hunting weather.
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20-12-09, 10:09
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19-12-09, 03:42
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I know I'm stating the obvious Bob but we just dont get that sort of weather over here. "Holy #@%*!!..... that's cold!!!"  Unless we're standing on the top of Perisher in the middle of winter. Still looking for Toronto - I think it may be between Mangoplah & Gumly Gumly.
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19-12-09, 09:00
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Tony I managed to get all the screws and bolts I needed at coventry fastenings, Wagga Wagga, the only thing they couldn't match was the square nuts so I have verry few captive nuts left on the cab. Fortunately I have a 14 year old who was flexable enough to get a spanner onto the hard to reach nuts.
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