Today Mike sent time blocking out the epoxy on the sign parts and addressing any low areas. I continued working on sound deadening, have one inner quarter panel left to go..
Sign progress, Fine tuning of some of the parts.... …..and for mounting it on the steel pole, this "shoe" is made of 14 gauge cold rolled and formed using the Go Kart slick.. The "sleeve" will slide over the pole and a set screw will hold it in place.. All ready for a splash of paint... The sound mat is installed inside the wagon... .
A couple coats of Epoxy last night to seal things up.... ….and then a white face added to the lighted surfaces... Then they were masked off for painting the silver.... and a bit of color for the "drum" video: Now to see if Mike can get this assembled this week...
Well the Logo has just been added, and the sign has left the building. Mike did the majority of the work on this project, I'm real pleased with how it turned out. More importantly, so is the customer!! video:
Me and Ramblur just talking about this project [emoji41][emoji106][emoji471] Q:did you use special sound deadener for roof??? Literally at this stage with my ‘64 98 Can’t wait to scrape all that old crap off the roof Yes, I’ll be wearing protection Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
The roof has Noico 80 mil sound deadener. How's Ramblur doing? I need to stop and visit next time I'm in FL
Time for a long overdue update. I've had too much travel for the day job since the first of the year. Case in point, we've had more than one Taco Tuesday at the Sand Bar in Cocoa Beach... Since completing the Drum Sign, Mike has been removing dings from the wagon's stainless trim. Here Vince and I test fit the side spears.. We've done some stainless repair before using small hammers and handmade punches to match the rear side of the profile, but during the last metalshaping workshop I attended at Will Cronkrite's shop in SC, I picked up a stainless dent/ding removal fixture that he had made up.. The blue sleeve at the top works on the premise of a slide hammer, with the force applied controlled by the operator. The die at the bottom (punch) is removable to allow a wide variety of specialized punches to fit the application. This tool allows more controlled manipulation, especially to those of us that don't do this type of repair every day... Here's one of the purpose built punches made for the trim... Here's some of our efforts in polishing out the trim after ding removal, filing, and about 6 steps of progressively finer grits of w/d and trizact…. Reflection.... We also were test fitting the dash trim that the owner had picked up. I know, billet is a bit played out, but let's see what works here... In fitting the corner pieces, the rear point of the trim does not match the unequal radius of the recess in the dash. Then when the middle (concave) radius is pushed into the recess, the rear "point" drops down out of the recess. So the underlying message here it the fit of these parts is piss poor at best. So we are not going to use these, but opting for something in a stainless trim.. final design TBD... Lastly, all the travel I've had for the day job really interferes with long term efforts, paintwork in particular. So in the interest of keeping progress moving forward, we have farmed out the paintwork to Brandon and Richard Glymph at Absolute Rod and Custom Paint. So last weekend the body and various parts were delivered to their shop in Annapolis.. So we should be doing assembly here in the near future!!
Will, shown in this picture with one of his drivers, was an early pioneer in NASCAR and has told a host of stories and tall tales. But he surely hasn't shared any videos of his tool in action.. In all seriousness, I'm in NC presently and will put something together when I get back to the shop.
Not many pictures to show on our wagon progress, the body has been blocked out and Brandon is getting some touch ups done to get ready for one final epoxy sprayout.. Vince has been given the thankless task of media blasting some of the remaining bare steel components so we can get some painting done of piece parts on this end. The condenser mount was media blasted, epoxy used to seal the wired edge, and some Evercoat 416 added and sanded smooth to form a slight radius fillet to finish it off.. We should be priming this coming week..
Vince has been getting all the core support parts prepped this past week, so last night was paint night, time for some epoxy primer.. After epoxy: Even got some epoxy on the low-rider wagon's rear axles.
Why do painters alway spray on the walls? A piece of paper or a box will test their spray patterns. The dark spots play hell with you on seeing coverage, they also hold dust and overspray particles, IE trash in your paint job. With the transparent colors we use today its a must to have a clean environment with natural light to paint in. The M.B. Service Manuel states that you view the paint in natural light because artificial light changes the color shift. The last two paint booth I had were spotless and had white tile floors, I just don’t like paint booth nasty. Sorry for my rant Frank
Today Vince was doing more media blasting of additional interior pieces as well as some hand painting on the parking brake for the wagon. It had some bare steel still so he got most of that covered. The ratchet/gear was left alone as we thought the epoxy would anchor it permanently.. Mike blocked out the pieces we primed last week, drilled some holes we'll need for the fan shroud, and got pieces hung up for the next round of epoxy primer. ….and please don't tell anyone you've seen her patio table in the paint booth! On another note, our resident shop ghost who likes to hide things has done something with the stainless trim door points. So I had put in a call to Mikey at The Stainless Shoppe. He had some original take offs in stock, and even polished them up for us. Now we have our work cut out for us in matching these!! .
We got some more epoxy sprayed on the core support parts and hood latch... And Brandon sent some pictures of the wagon in final primer.. A little bit closer....
Today I was block sanding some core support parts for one more spray. Making black powder out of black epoxy primer. Not all that exciting, so I didn't take any pictures.. But wait... it gets better! Brandon and Richard have been sanding as well, only they put some color on the roof today: Clear: Can't wait for the green and some sunlight.... .
Very nice milestone, I have been patiently waiting for the day its out in the sun fully painted. Thank you for all the posting that you do, I have learned a great deal from you.
That color combo is going to look good![emoji106] Sent from my SM-G973U using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Thanks guys! Some spring cleaning.... Picked up a 12" disc sander quite a few months back, and Mike has been using this on the floor.. So I decided to help the guy out and put it at a more useable height... Added a "bolting framework" to the top of one of the paint tripods, already set up with casters so you can push it in the corner.... Rivnuts installed since I didn't have bolts in stock long enough to go all the way through.. Ready for some sanding... Dana dropped off the new brake cables for the wagon the other day. The single cable that attaches to the pedal has a shouldered ferrule that sits in the bottom of the parking brake bracket. Only this shoulder was much too small for the factory hole, the Hex portion almost pulled through the hole. I considered making an adapter sleeve on the lathe, but the figured resizing the hole would be quicker. Found a nice thick 3/8 flat washer in stock that fit the ferrule shoulder perfectly and matched the thickness of the parking brake bracket. In order to get the weld heat farther from the 3/8 hole, the bracket opening was oversized up to 7/8" (largest step drill that I could find) and the washer slightly downsized to fit.. Some 3/8 standoffs made a quick arbor for the drill, and the die grinder does the rest. we had our correct size in about a minute.. Installed, much better fit... Now Vince needs to do some touch up on the paint!
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