My first carrier: some assembly required

[RichardT10829]

i would be interested in buying them if you were willing to sell :-) will save me a lot of time and hassle with a lathe

[Dave Schindel]

super dave, I'm also interested in your paint color. What did you use?

[super dave]

Ok Here is what I used for the bucking bar and rivet sets. I purchased the rivet Gun and the Sets off of Ebay (just search for rivet sets generally in the aircraft section) in two different auctions. The rivet sets I purchased came as a bunch of 27 pieces, but I only have been using 5 of them as the others are to small but was cheaper than buying them individually. The bucking bars I made up and added the extra weight to them as my dad was giving me a hand and he did not have the strength to hold the bar tight enough (he is 80 after all). I made one using a offset rivet set as drilling the end of a piece of steel and holding it in with a washer welded on so it would not fall out and the other piece was drilled and then shaped to what I wanted with a round grinding stone with a die grinder.

[super dave]

Originally Posted by Dave Schindel

super dave, I'm also interested in your paint color. What did you use?

The paint I had made up locally at Cloverdale paint using there industrial enamel paint using a paint chip card that I got the info from brad mills. I tried to get the same paint (Sherwin Williams) but the only place that could mix it up was in Brampton ON as there was a certain flattening agent used in the mix and they were the only branch in Canada that had it. It was nice of them however to send me a paint chip to use to get it matched locally.

[Dave Schindel]

Looks good.I am using a local auto body shop to try get the right color.I'll keep Cloverdale in mind. Thanks.

[RichardT10829]

if you guys could find out who supplied your MOD with paint you could go direct... reason i say is they will also have all the old colours on file... Cromadex here in the UK have all the colours for ww2 period. just dont go 100% matt (like the new vehicles have) as it absorbs water really badly..... eggshell or 10% from my research is the correct sheen ...

[super dave]

Well this week was another good week for getting some more painting done on most of the suspension and differential. It was a low as the last rear swing arm I was dismantling is totally seized on the pin and I can't get it out . I tried heating it up and putting it in the press with no luck what so ever. I tried hammering it with a large sludge hammer and a punch for a hour and again no luck. after realizing I don't think I will ever get it apart I was lucky to have another rear swing arm that I was able to strip down and remove the pin (Again I had to use the press and heat to get it out, but it did). The bad was that the pin is in very poor shape and I will have to see what I can do to make a new one (unless a nice fellow member out there might have a spare one ) as the other 3 I removed are in great shape. Also what has other members done about the bushing (for the better lack of word for it) that the end of the spring ball shaped retainer goes into as I have a couple that have nothing at all left of them ???

[super dave]

Some more painting.