2017 F15A Starting over

[sth65pac]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Hello Ian,

Great to see you have restarted on your F15A. Thanks for sharing all the photos, we like them here on MLU. Could you please attach them as described here?
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19
Our experience over the year (decades, really) is that using external photo hosting will one day lead to the loss of pictures, rendering a thread like this useless. That would be a shame and waste of your work posting it here.

Thanks,
Hanno

They are on Photo bucket Hanno. I can email them to you if you wish and you can do what you want.

Ian

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by sth65pac

They are on Photo bucket Hanno. I can email them to you if you wish and you can do what you want.

Ian, I have edited your last post to show how it works. But you will have to do it yourself, mate, can't spend day & night editing other people's postings. Administering & moderating MLU is already taking too much of my time...

Cheers,
Hanno

[sth65pac]

I had an original hatch with the truck VERY RUSTY, but it had a broken hinge. Obviously a bit of a rush in the factory as the hinges are reversed between the two. Hopefully these pictures will upload ok. I'm new to this photo upload style so bear with it. I drilled out the rivets on the old hinge and will plunge weld on the donor hinge. Its 16:50 here now. Enough on a Friday.

Still have to repair around the turret and finish the drip rails.

Tomorrow I says...tomorrow.

Cheers,

Ian

[sth65pac]

Slow work yesterday, after some grit in my eye. No injuries with PPE on any vehicle except this truck.. My eye is slowly getting beeting better. Some hatch patches. tacked in first then fill the popped holes (rust) Dress with a flap disk.

[sth65pac]

A little more cut and fill, tack in slowly. These hatches are oh so old and frail.

I could re-skin the whole lot but to me, its making a new axe. Preserving what I have is harder but better.

Cheers,

Ian

[sth65pac]

Hi Folks,
After last week's eye injury (grinding grit in my eye- and I was wearing safety glasses) Managed to finish off the drip rails with a re-made piece of the correct dimensions. The box section was too small so a new drawing and off to the sheet metal man again.
This is markedly better than the rusted ones of 70+ years.
Its very satisfying to see parts how they should look, not old and damaged.

I dressed all of the repairs to the roof again, not satisfied with the first pass. About 6 hours work now but the result is great.

Ahh and you can see I have to repair the hatch area (Ford) when has a lot of water damage over the years. Again, my measurements were a little short so I will have a rail made at the sheet metal shop.

Cheers,

Ian

[sth65pac]

Today I also ordered some parts, two twin row water pumps $400, A fuel pump $80 and the five engine mounts $150 for the cab and engine.
Its only money they say.... that was a $650+ dent.

Our dollar is falling in value (again) against the green-back so price of parts is 25% more per USD. A lot different form some years back when it was parity.

I also have had a new rear crossmember folded up $41!! locally. I have etch primed it just for rust preventing, and I'll measure and drill all of the support and rivet holes in the near future ready for re-riveting.

Does anyone know if there is a MACs supplier in the UK? Postage from the USA is stupidly expensive.

Cheers,
Ian

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

How did you form those drip rails?

Originally Posted by sth65pac

Hi Folks,
After last week's eye injury (grinding grit in my eye- and I was wearing safety glasses) Managed to finish off the drip rails with a re-made piece of the correct dimensions. The box section was too small so a new drawing and off to the sheet metal man again.
This is markedly better than the rusted ones of 70+ years.
Its very satisfying to see parts how they should look, not old and damaged.

I dressed all of the repairs to the roof again, not satisfied with the first pass. About 6 hours work now but the result is great.

Ahh and you can see I have to repair the hatch area (Ford) when has a lot of water damage over the years. Again, my measurements were a little short so I will have a rail made at the sheet metal shop.

Cheers,

Ian