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  1. 23rd September 2016, 05:28 PM #1
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    Hi

    I have not been on this forum for a while Been teaching myself machining ..with many stuffups in the process.

    I still have the three 1950 models , these are in various states of disrepair

    Two are running and driveable .

    I hope to be making a canvas truck top soon. I had a exmoor made one on loan and took measurments.

    Mike in Gippsland .
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  2. 23rd September 2016, 06:20 PM #2
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    Nice to hear from you again Mike!

    Goodness knows how many years since the Trans-Tasman forum!

    Post some pics of your hood; I remember being most impressed by your first one,

    Cheers Charlie
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    hi Charlie

    Yes the old days .... on the trans tasman forum

    How is your brother getting on with his series 1 ? Your 80" must be finished ? I am out of touch with things .

    I have the pics of the exmoor truck canvas top somewhere . I will do some drawings and upload them . I managed to get hold of some 1" webbing and cotton canvas . Also found some brass gauze for the rear curtain windows .

    A pic of making a backing plate for a chuck .It's a steel wheel from a scale garden railway wagon. I bored it out and made a cast iron sleeve and then internally threaded the sleeve . The lathe is a old flat belt Visby
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  4. 24th September 2016, 08:57 AM #4
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    My 80" needs the body done next and then it will be awfully close to finished; hence the reason why I am making some wings.

    Life and a sports car have got in the way though, so it may a few more years yet, until the little fella is complete again,

    Cheers Charlie
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    Charlie . Are you fabricating the whole wing ? Or just the inner section and the top flat section ? The outer panels are the most difficult to do . I guess if K Wadsworth can make them, then it's not impossible .
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    The outer section.

    Check your PM's.
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    I've been told that Wadsworth uses a hydraulic press and a die to shape the outer section .
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