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Offline Tom

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« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2010 3:31 pm »
Well after 2 weeks I finally got my ass back out to the shop. The box was your typical farm truck box, beat to shit and having  spent too much time out in the weather, major rust. I purchased some replacements parts from Snyder’s and had a local sheet metal shop bent up the rest. The 1st pic is the tail gate I had bent up locally , but you can’t make round corners with a metal brake so I had to use my stretcher and do some welding. Note in the pic one side is done, the other not. The other pic has the box mocked up, still a lot to do. The bolts you see are for mock up only, final assembly will have rivets.
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« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2010 5:00 pm »
Lookin good....nice work.
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« Reply #32 on: January 27, 2010 10:36 pm »
You do nice work, Tom. Looks great!
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« Reply #33 on: February 06, 2010 10:19 pm »
You're going to need a smaller suitcase! ;)  Looks good Tom!  I think I see some room for a coupe project in your shop...
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« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2010 2:23 am »
Nice craftsmanship Tom.  It will be a completely different vehicle.
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« Reply #35 on: February 17, 2010 2:56 pm »
Quote from: "pinstriper40"
 I think I see some room for a coupe project in your shop...


Yes.........this summer I'm going to get the frame and body setting in there. I gota have a coupe!!!
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« Reply #36 on: February 22, 2010 3:09 pm »
A little more progress. It's now mounted to the frame.
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« Reply #37 on: February 22, 2010 4:54 pm »
Looks good!  I think the rear wheels are still centered between the back edge of the door and the tailgate... I think it'll look even better once it's painted.
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« Reply #38 on: February 22, 2010 9:42 pm »
I like it! 8)
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« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2010 5:19 pm »
Needed to make the new tail gate looked somewhat like the original. A bead roller wasn’t going to cut it for this so I went over I spoke to Duane Leingang and he came up with this idea. Press it!! By looking at the pic I'm sure you'll get the idea. I didn't get any pics when we were using the press cause we were both busy holding the tailgate and running the press. That's silicone spray on the male part of the die. The holes in the tailgate that attach the hinges were used for alignment of the male die, tailgate, and the female die. The last pic shows Duane using the planishing hammer to stretch the metal before we used the press.
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« Reply #40 on: March 22, 2010 5:21 pm »
Here it is!!
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« Reply #41 on: March 22, 2010 5:23 pm »
Very nice!  Do you have a paint date penciled in yet?
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« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2010 5:32 pm »
Well I try to paint when it's warm out, and as slow as I am it will be warm by then.
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« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2010 6:09 pm »
That turned out really nice. I really like the way the endgate turned out. Good idea.
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« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2010 7:39 pm »
Nice job!
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