Builds Rebuilding a 40 but no longer in a 1 car garage.

[mattapo82]

Love you work.
Luckly I don't have as much work to do on mine however I need to learn most of the skills to do the work!!! I am taking a lot of inspiration from you.

 

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Almost finished.

 

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Got a few upgrades for the shop.

One still does require some work.

But first time for the 40!
Today this came.

This should make life a lot easier.

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

I am hooked. What ya got?

 

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I first need to move it to the shop, its heavy.

 

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Funny, getting something to help not to hurt your back really hurts your back before it helps.
first by getting it in the shop, then unloading and building it.

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

Rotisserie! Nice!

 

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Made new brackets to mount the jig for the tub on the rotisserie.

Tomorrow its going on.

 

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Then I started on the front windscreen frame, this was eye balling me for the last few years and I wanted to find out if I could save it.
It is bend and lost a bit of steel along the way.

gote everything off and started tearing into it.

lots of rust.

 

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At first I thought I could cut sections out and replace them with new metal but the bends are making that difficult.
Then I decided to split the two parts.
Bending the top and bottom lips open.

Only a limited number of spot welds.

And a two piece window frame.

 

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As you can see there is lots of rust inside, this was the only way to tackle this.

the outside Looks like it was under water at some time.

then I started with the inside frame and clamped it on the welding table.

As soon as the two pieces were separated it was a lot easier to straighten them.
started cleaning to see what needs to be replaced.

 

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Flipped it around and worked it from the inside.

looking at adding structure integrety before cutting parts out.

 

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Jig is hanging in the rotisserie.

the frame is almost square, I compensated with the position of the cross bars to make it square within 1mm.
The three tub to frame cross sections are in the correct position.

The Center line is in, the two cross bars for the cargo floor positions must be set.
Next are the brackets for the mounting points and then position the tub.

 

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Just a quick update, waiting on steel for the brackets on the jig.
continued with the frame, straitened it as much as possible and started making templates of the shapes.

started cleaning the rust.

working on patch panels.

Straitened the outside too.

 

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Updated the mill to make it more efficient.
added a light, at my age you need all the light you can get.

a bigger machine vice.

and a DRO.

 

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Then I ordered a set of cheap gauges and slammed this together.

Next I made a little zen draw.

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

The down side of shop improvements is the time it takes you away from the reason you have the shop in the first place.

I now know what you mean

That is a great refurb and improvement of that machine!!! Sure it will help you a lot!

 

[billmc]

I drool a little every time you update this thread

 

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I drool a little every time you update this thread

There is more info regarding the shop in the workshop/mancave tread in my sig.

 

[billmc]

There is more info regarding the shop in the workshop/mancave tread in my sig.

Thanks, I'll check it out, though I suspect it'll just make the drooling problem worse. I'll just wear a bib.