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[HOTFR8]

Simon,
I will be going to UES next week for some latches, hinges and such for the trailer
I'll be picking up the steel and sheetiing also.
(got any plans )

Plans For ??? Sorry, How can I help ?

 

[Rocket]

Plans For ??? Sorry, How can I help ?

Got much on ??
You could come over and help me build it

 

[HOTFR8]

Got much on ??
You could come over and help me build it

What is the pay like Got much on he says
August looks busy for me and Sept / Oct look like I may be away most weekends at something.

 

[Rocket]

What is the pay like Got much on he says
August looks busy for me and Sept / Oct look like I may be away most weekends at something.

I resemble that remark

 

[HOTFR8]

You should see my Office hours notice.


Office Hours.

OPEN most days about 9 or 10
Occasionally as Early as 7,
But SOME DAYS as late as 12 or 1.
We close about 4 or 5,
But sometimes as late as 11 or 12.
SOME DAYS OR Afternoons,
We Arn't here at all, and
lately I've been here just about
all the time, Except when I'm
some place else, But I should be
here then too.

Goes on to give the Cell / Mobile if the door is shut.

 

[Rocket]

You should see my Office hours notice.


Office Hours.

OPEN most days about 9 or 10
Occasionally as Early as 7,
But SOME DAYS as late as 12 or 1.
We close about 4 or 5,
But sometimes as late as 11 or 12.
SOME DAYS OR Afternoons,
We Arn't here at all, and
lately I've been here just about
all the time, Except when I'm
some place else, But I should be
here then too.

Goes on to give the Cell / Mobile if the door is shut.

GEE !!
I think I'll have to 'Steal' that one for my shop
(just home from work now, the missus has gone out & the kids seem to be fending for them selves........me, I found some left overs, a scotch and am now pondering my lonley existance as a sole business opperator )

 

[HOTFR8]

GEE !!
I think I'll have to 'Steal' that one for my shop
(just home from work now, the missus has gone out & the kids seem to be fending for them selves........me, I found some left overs, a scotch and am now pondering my lonley existance as a sole business opperator )

Do not ponder to hard or that project will never get built.
By the way ......You are welcome to copy the trading hours.
Eddie Ford gave me a copy years ago.

 

[Rocket]

By the way ......You are welcome to copy the trading hours.
Eddie Ford gave me a copy years ago.

That makes sence.
Eddie is a great bloke & is always keen to help if he can (I know he has done for me )
By the way, did you see Ron's right up in the August issue of ASR, I for some reason didn't recieve it (I found out about it today & never realised I didn't have the mag)
He has done a segment on shrinking. He gave my dics a good plug (must have been the dinner we had last time he was out.................yes...in Castlemiane ) Just kidding, he's a good friend.
So many people are prepaired to help out in this industry if they can. Eddie is one of those people.

No work on the shop truck I'm afraid, though I will be happy to see the paper work come back as it will be a month since I submitted it

 

[HOTFR8]

That makes sence.
Eddie is a great bloke & is always keen to help if he can (I know he has done for me )
By the way, did you see Ron's right up in the August issue of ASR, I for some reason didn't recieve it (I found out about it today & never realised I didn't have the mag)
He has done a segment on shrinking. He gave my dics a good plug (must have been the dinner we had last time he was out.................yes...in Castlemiane ) Just kidding, he's a good friend.
So many people are prepaired to help out in this industry if they can. Eddie is one of those people.

No work on the shop truck I'm afraid, though I will be happy to see the paper work come back as it will be a month since I submitted it

Eddie is a top fellow. Very laid back but when he has time he can always offer some good information.

I did read your free plug / promotion and have to say that is good from a master like that. His work is promoting many interesting things. An example being the art display here at the recent state festival and the talk Ron Covell put on at the local gallery.

The fellow who did the body work and paint on my F4 went with me to listen and see what it was all about and this week I find he has made a MACK Dog mail box after all the inspiration. He restores Macks for a living so my F4 was different for him.

Good luck with you paper work. I can not wait fo park my F4 beside yours project at an event.

 

[Rocket]

Simon,
Ron, Larry & myself went to see the "reed" Hot Rod sulpture on the Friday before that event. (we met in the"Hot Rod" display first )

After dinner Ron & myself took a strole down to the town square where all the festivities where going on.
I would love to have stayed on for his speach, but I had already taken off the whole weekend to catch up with him & Kelvin, also to attend attend his workshop (as I couldn't travel all that way with out sitting in on it )

I was unaware he had done that artical, in fact I hadn't seen it until today (for some reason I didn't get my copy last month ) so he did it with out me knowing.
The picture in the mag is of one of my discs, but on his grinder back in the States, as he bought a few tools from me while he was here

 

[Rocket]

Sorry about all the off topic stuff there guys,
back to the task in hand.

While I've been very busy at work, including the shop trailer build, I now have my paper work back from the rego. department.
I very happy to announce that all the things I wanted to do have been approved with not one single question.
Even all the chassis work & no mention about an engineer
The paper work has approval for 6 seats & the wide tracks

As soon as the trailer is finished, my "spare" time will then go back onto the Shop Truck, so I will up date as things start progressing.

Still hunting for the correct type on hood hinges to use & what column ??

 

[dreamingmuscle]

Any more progress on your build?
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vapor genie vaporizer

 

[Rocket]

Any more progress on your build?

Nope

tis just before 5am here & heading to work shortly

We have been flat out (12 hour plus days, 7 days a week ) can't get staff
anyway still waiting on the 'Big Brake' set up from the machinist (spose it doesn't help when I keep putting more urgent work on him )

 

[HOTFR8]

Rod,

Time for an update with your progress.

 

[e-tek]

Looking forward to more too!!

 

[Rocket]

Rod,

Time for an update with your progress.

Geez Simon,
You don't miss much
(I have recently posted the re-start of the build on another forum)

I'll organise an up date shortly.

 

[Rocket]

Right Ho!

After waiting for a year to get the big brake kit for the front done, we have dummied it all up & have FINALLY started the build proper

The cab has now been widened to a final 10" at the cowl, so another 4 " wider than previous (I'm glad we didn't start the body work until we had final tracks)
We spent a lot of time to get it right before we started making the patches & welding them in for good.


The first patch made

2nd patch

3rd patch

The beginnings of the 4th patch

So the long haul has begun.
We are pretty busy, but hopefull to keep the working moving along though much of it will be after hours (if there is such a thing :roll: )

I've been asked to keep the pics coming, so I'll try to remember to take them.

Had 'ONE OF THOSE DAYS' today................&*^#($*@%&&^!%#(* :?
Got drenched heading into work.
Dropped my 9" Grinder right onto the edge of the Shrinking Disc (dunno where I can get a new one do ya :wink: )
I forgot my wallet...........so no lunch!
& to top it all off.............I'm not happy with the out come of the shape.

The top of the cowl would of course usually have a vent in there, so it would be nearly flat which is almost how it is now. (I had considered making a new cowl vent, as the new shape on the front of the cowl/rear of bonnet won't match the original one)
I have stopped short of finishing the planishing work, so now I'm sitting here with a beer looking at the pics :wink:
It looks **** the way it has ended up, so I'll think on it for a few days & work out how to solve the problem.
The photo makes it look like there is a hollow in the middle, but there ain't
in fact it does have a crown in it, just not enough in my mind :roll:

Dunno if this shows it any better

No work done on it today, though I did have a visitor who saw the up date on the other forum who called by to make sure I hadn't just done some photoshopping

 

[HOTFR8]

Looking forward to more too!!

E-Tek I think you will agree it was worth the promt

Geez Simon,
You don't miss much
(I have recently posted the re-start of the build on another forum)
I'll organise an up date shortly.

What can I say I had a quiet day and went looking for some old topics here on the forum and decided it was time you showed us some more

Dropped my 9" Grinder right onto the edge of the Shrinking Disc (dunno where I can get a new one do ya :wink: )
I forgot my wallet...........so no lunch!

Yes I do I often see a fellow I know at many of the Swap Meets.
No Lunch so more time to work on that project. It is Looking good.

 

[HOTFR8]

(I have recently posted the re-start of the build on another forum)

What forum would that be ? This is the only real forum

 

[Rocket]

What forum would that be ? This is the only real forum

Ha de ha ha!

No more work on it AGAIN today
Too busy chasing around my 2 workers, as we also started a new build for another customer
I think I only managed only 1 hours actual work, in between phone callls, orders, visitors & setup of the '52 Chev with the boys.

Oh well, at least we're being productive

 

[54FordPanel]

Wow. Amazing work. What did you use to cut the cab up with? Those are some nice straight cuts!
Very nice work.

 

[Rocket]

Wow. Amazing work. What did you use to cut the cab up with? Those are some nice straight cuts!
Very nice work.

Thanks ................but I dunno bout amaizing

Good measuring, mark with a scribe & 1mm zipit discs
(oh! & watch the line as you go I wish my apprentice would do that )

 

[z28snksknr]

Just found this thread. I just started on my first project truck ('54 F-100) and after looking at your work, I'm convinced I know absolutely nothing!!

Can you give some background on what "metal finishing" entails?

Looking forward to following this thread closely!!

 

[Rocket]

Just found this thread. I just started on my first project truck ('54 F-100) and after looking at your work, I'm convinced I know absolutely nothing!!

Can you give some background on what "metal finishing" entails?

Looking forward to following this thread closely!!

Gee,
That's something that JUST can't be explained here
There is soooo much to it, I'm not sure where to begin.

 

[Rocket]

A bit of an undate (though not much progression )

I have now re-made the cowl section...........AGAIN

Much happier with it now.

Have ended up removing the roof sections, welding them together & cut the piece I had already made for the centre apart, to fill in the 2 gaps.
I also ended up removing the joining strip above the window (there was a bit of rust in there, so we just welded it up. The panels are misaligned there (because of the foulded joining strip) so we have no option but to use a little filler there

Looks half ok

I didn't do anything on it last week, and this week isn't looking good either (even after working all the 7 days )

 

[Chatam/Garage]

This is a great thread, I can hardly wait to see some more progress on your truck, keep those pic's coming our way!

Has anyone ever gone to the anual Moab car show? Some guy brings a sweet Diamond-T crew cab one car hauler most every year, what a truck might I say.

 

[michakaveli]

Awesome build. (subscribed)

 

[jktruck150]

Great build!! I may have missed it, but are you going to square the window frame of the rear doors to make it look more like a production crew cab or are you going to leave the original door lines?

I like the guages and the wheels look good too! Are you going to have a normal pickup bed or make it into a flat bed?

Man, this is one build I will have to watch!

 

[z28snksknr]

Gee,
That's something that JUST can't be explained here
There is soooo much to it, I'm not sure where to begin.

What methods do you use when working your metal so that you are not requireing the use of filler?

 

[Call me the Breeze]

Very nice build ! Looking forward to seeing it continued.

 

[Cryptic1911]

oh wow, never seen one done like this!

 

[HOTFR8]

Rocket,

Good to see you found it to update it

What methods do you use when working your metal so that you are not requireing the use of filler?

Rocket will not answer that so I will have to direct you to his web site.
http://rodsandrelics.com.au/site/index.php as that will tell you more.

Has anyone ever gone to the anual Moab car show? Some guy brings a sweet Diamond-T crew cab one car hauler most every year, what a truck might I say.

I have seen it on the net somewhere.

Is this it ?

 

[Rocket]

Great build!! I may have missed it, but are you going to square the window frame of the rear doors to make it look more like a production crew cab or are you going to leave the original door lines?

Yep!
Thats the go Squared rear doors & the roof gutter will also run straight through instead os how it looks atm.
While there will be no chop on it, I will actually be raising the 'B' pillars.
This is due to the needing a curve to match the original door tops & of course the main roof.

I like the guages and the wheels look good too! Are you going to have a normal pickup bed or make it into a flat bed?

Man, this is one build I will have to watch!

I have a Hilux King Cab (or extra cab for those who speak a different lingo ) & plan to only use the floor pan & tailgate hinges & latches, though the handle will end up on the inside, out of sight.
I will be making new skins all round for the tub, so it will end up as a 'Style Side' tub with about 1/2 size rear fenders.
Like an Amercian Pickup Bed, but in a style side if you can get that.

 

[Rocket]

What methods do you use when working your metal so that you are not requireing the use of filler?

For starters I use an oxy to weld the panels (a much softer weld that can be easily planished) tight fitting joints for welding saves work down the track (I do not use any filler rod unless I have to)
While I sometimes just jump in and do a complete weld, no matter how long it is (I have welded rear tub sections in vintage cars in one go {about a 5 ' weld :wtf} & just deal with the shrinkage later) I do prefer to hammer weld.
Tack the whole panel up, and weld sections at a time, hammering the weld while it's still hot. The finish is much better & I tend to think it is also a little stronger.

Using Doliies & Hammmers, a Slap Hammer, a Bullseye Pick & a Shrinking Disc certainly helps to metal finsh.............Oh! & PLENTY of time

Oh!
There is times you have to use filler & it is a normal thing (what we call a 'standard finish' in the industry, as many just will not pay for metal finishing.
Filler is fine, so long as it's used in moderation

 

[Chatam/Garage]

Rocket,

Good to see you found it to update it



Rocket will not answer that so I will have to direct you to his web site.
http://rodsandrelics.com.au/site/index.php as that will tell you more.



I have seen it on the net somewhere.

Is this it ?

Yes, I believe so! Should have suicide doors, modern interior comforts, leather, things like that. I wonder where the owner is from?

 

[jktruck150]

Yep!
Thats the go Squared rear doors & the roof gutter will also run straight through instead os how it looks atm.
While there will be no chop on it, I will actually be raising the 'B' pillars.
This is due to the needing a curve to match the original door tops & of course the main roof.



I have a Hilux King Cab (or extra cab for those who speak a different lingo ) & plan to only use the floor pan & tailgate hinges & latches, though the handle will end up on the inside, out of sight.
I will be making new skins all round for the tub, so it will end up as a 'Style Side' tub with about 1/2 size rear fenders.
Like an Amercian Pickup Bed, but in a style side if you can get that.

Got it man! Just keep up the updates! Like most guys on here, I have thought about doing the same thing (i.e. making a crew cab truck), just haven't made it there....YET!

 

[Rocket]

Got it man! Just keep up the updates! Like most guys on here, I have thought about doing the same thing (i.e. making a crew cab truck), just haven't made it there....YET!

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr neither have I
Just too busy atm (so much for spending a day a week on it )
A long haul ahead

 

[HOTFR8]

Your'e getting there Rod. I've had a catch up this week and have a few projects here that will interest you.

Engine stand - http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72751

Seats - http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73568

and some more work on the Freighter F4 with the fuel trailer.

Now I have to ask again, Did you not plan this to be a crewcab ?

 

[Rocket]

Now I have to ask again, Did you not plan this to be a crewcab ?

Errrrrrrrrrrrr YES (why do you ask?? )

 

[HOTFR8]

Errrrrrrrrrrrr YES (why do you ask?? )

The talk of Super cabs and King Cabs etc. gave me an off moment just like losing a topic

Have you had any art work done as to what it may look like when finished ?