2009 at the Hammond Barn

[Bob Carriere]

....so no matter what they say in these Men magazines.... size does NOT matter if you use a brass sleeve........ hummm!

The one I need for the doors is the bottom RH on the first picture also shown as the top LH on the second slide.....

I need to reach inside the frame and clearance is a problem.... like the idea of a rubber sleeve to make sure the pwoer goes where it is intended.....

Will be measuring tomorrow.....

....currently in process of ripping off the floor to reach Tcase linkage for adjustment........

Will keep you posted of my findings.....

Thanks again for your help...

Bob C.

See picture of the door profile.....

[Gunner]

Hi Guys:

Thank you all for the various offers. I will be putting the cheque in the mail (yeah, I know, where have we heard that ONE before!) this evening after I deposit Her Majesty's monthly pension to this somewhat worn old warrior.

Bob: your offer for later in Sep seems the simplest (Jiff, much appreciated that you would get it to TO for me!) so if'n I can impose, thats the way I'd like to go. I leave for 'frika on 2 Oct and return about 23 Nov.

Mike

[Bob Carriere]

.....tentative plans are a visit on Oct 11 to pick up the mother inlaw.... and do Acton....hihihi....sneaky ain't I...... or may be earlier in Sept. to visit Joyce's Dad........

Will need to know when and where Stew is blowing things up......

Bob C.

[RHClarke]

Had to make a difficult choice this day. Stay at home and listen to 10 screaming kids attending a birthday party, whilst putting up with their mothers who get progressively anti-man as the wine flows, or go to the barn...

What a great day at the barn. Today we had some visitors - the first one arrived to take measurements of various CMP items and to bring Bob up to speed on things going on in the west end of Ottawa. Bob missed the Gracies call, so Don Dingwall had to repeat all of his Gracies banter. The next visitor was Rob Hutchingame, CO of the Manotick Army Cadet Corps and family friend. Rob had to make the same decision as I had to, and he chose the correct path forward. The morning went quite fast and we headed into Hammond city centre for a brunch at Mike's Place.

After brunch, Don headed back to the wild west, and Rob H was put to work in the HUP wagon lines. First, we tarped the Gough/Ginn HUP body. Then we filled her up with all sorts of HUP hardware that had been sitting on back of my Philips HUP. The other HUPs were suitably tarped and cleaned out. Then it was back to the barn.

Bob and Grant were dissecting Bob's drive train so Rob H and I decided to replace tire number three on the Prototype HUP. After the wheel was removed, we demonstrated the "new" and "improved" de-rimming technique. This involved the safe removal of all of the nuts on the rim and the judicious use of long punches to separate the bead from the rim. Once the punches were in, chisels were used along the rim to further move the rubber away from the rim.

Rob H and I think we set the new record for removing old tires from rusty HUP rims. It took 5 minutes. The local peanut gallery moaned that it was because the HUP rims were a different angle and therefore easier to de-rim. As well, a number of theories were offerred about the ease of de-rimming the HUP - it had rolled on it's tires and therefore were easier to remove, etc...

In any case, the official timekeeper verified that the 5 minute mark was achieved. I now offer the challenge to all - beat our record of a 5 minute Prototype HUP tire de-rimming, and I will let you have the first offical drive of the Prototype upon restoration roll-out.


After that fun, I asked Rob H if he knew what a needle gun was...he knows now. Being a good sport, he had a go at cleaning up one of the Prototype's freshly opened rims. After a good spell of ear-splitting needle-gunning, Bob took pity on Rob H and stood us down for a beer (which evaporated quickly).

That wrapped up the day for us. Rob H and I headed back to the city and to our wives and kids. They did not seem to miss us...

[RHClarke]

So much for the "routine" 5 minute HUP wheel derimming...This weekend I attempted to derim one of two remaining serviceable HUP wheels - both came with the Prototype HUP.

5 minutes turned into almost 5 hours. The chisel and punch technique refused to work. The sledgehammer technique was equally frustrating. Soaking the gap between the rim and the casing with gasoline failed to produce any noticable results. Kharma, it seems favours the modest. Grant's smile said it all. After soothing my hurt pride, I found out why the tire refused to derim in the same manner as all of the others. It was a runflat tire with a hell of a lot more surface area at the bead. We resorted to Bob's wood splitter to break the bead and finally the inner rim separated from the tire.

The run flat - one tough SOB to derim:


In the meanwhile, Grant took on the chore of sandblasting (using quartz as the media) his rims and some of Bob's sheet metal. Here he is expelling noxious emissions:


I took a break from the rim bashing to blast the already separated HUP rims. It was fun in comparison to tire bashing.Paint soon followed.
HUP solar collector:


Bob and Grant also replaced U joints for their drive shafts. Bob sprays his short drive shaft:


It was a warm and sunny day with just a hint of a breeze - which kept the sandblasting dust away from the barn. The late summer weather has been great for the past week with more of the same coming this week. After some time remediating Bob's drive train issues, we enjoyed a cold beer before closing up shop and spoke of an upcoming road trip - details to be announced...

[Bob Carriere]

I had hoped Rob would not tell everyone I had a "short drive shaft".....

....oh well at least it's green.

I also installed my NOS fuel strainer as teh early cab 11 did not have them I had to make a template based on other cab 12...... then and only then did Grant show me the template in the service bulletin manual.... but I had it right anyways..... fuel lines are are installed with metal tie down straps over a high pressure air line section...... trying to avoid the potential fire hazards reported by Phil....

I had originally installed the short middel driveshaft and front shaft "as is".... the U joints looked good and tight...., but since the floor was off the trcuk and access was easier from the top and already had purchased the four Spicer U joint we did all four....... and I am very relieved to say that one showed some signs of flat spot wear and another had dried up..... now I know I have 6 new Spicer.....

It just never ends......

Bob C.

[RHClarke]

Another safe road trip is under our belt. The Hammond division of the Ottawa Rotters made their way to the Barrie Automotive Flea Market last Friday as the precursor to our foray into Muskoka cottage country for a double recovery mission.

Barrie was exciting as usual, but no great treasures were found. The usual assortment of new and used automotive goods was available. The boys may post their finds later. After a day wandering the flea market, we headed out for a good meal in Barrie. Our spy contacted us to confirm the location for the recovery mission on Saturday morning.

After a good breakfast in Barrie, we headed north to Huntsville. At Huntsville we took a country road into the pre-autumn Ontario forest. The sunny day and beautiful countryside made the trip even more enjoyable than usual. We finally arrived at the secret location to find a CMP trailer and a 1942 HUW waiting for their new owners (Bob and myself respectively).

The 42 HUW:


We met up with our spy who introduced us to Ron, the owner. Ron indicated that he had other treasures located in the forest if we were interested. This generated a lot of talk as you may have guessed. More on that at a later date.

We had two "vehicles" to move on one float trailer. The float was not long enough for us to put both on nose to tail. The original plan was to load the HUW, remove the rear wheels and "hump" the front wheels of the CMP trailer over the rear axle of the HUW, knit them together with chains and head for home. Murphy had other plans. The nuts on the HUW would not budge. So we got the power bar and extension and heaved on the handle only to break it apart. Time for Plan B.

Plan B was simple in concept but much harder to realize...Load the HUW onto the CMP trailer and when secured, roll the CMP trailer onto the float. We had no heavy lift capability, but Bob was the man with the plan. We loaded the HUW onto Bob's trailer, ran it back to the CMP trailer and set ramps up to the CMP trailer deck. On the third attempt, the HUW rolled up onto the CMP deck. No mean feat as the HUW had flat tires on front and we had to double the winch line.

HUW on CMP trailer:


We then chained down the HUW to the CMP trailer and repositioned the float to load it. Again, we ran into problems with flat tires, but we finally prevailed. The entire load was knitted to the float with quite a few chains and load binders.

Loaded!


Well-stacked, indeed!


After everything was secured, we conducted a brake test and were happy to note that the trailer stopped (eventually) when we wanted it to.

Brian and Grant measured the height of the load and we found we were below the maximum height restriction for road travel. The only real problems we had on the trip home were the Sunday drivers and a tie down strap that Houdini would have appreciated. We made Ottawa by 8 PM and saved the off-load until Sunday morning – Bob will post more pictures of the off-load later.

This trip was not without its challenges, but was completed safely and two more CMPs joined the Hammond stable.