2017 F15A Starting over

[Ron King]

I had a visitor walk into my workshop today.
He used my ancient radial arm drill, and left it in a much cleaner condition than he found it......he is such a nice bloke.


DSCN0268 by john smith, on Flickr

DSCN0269 by john smith, on Flickr

[Mike K]

If you need some tips on how to hot rivet the replacement cross member in, ask aj.lec ( Andrew) he is a wizz on the riveting

[sth65pac]

Been busy with a myriad of life items so progress has slowed a little.

My engine mounts arrived and some other parts,=. But we're in the crossmember so here goes.

I spent a bit of time straightening the reinforcing plates in my press. A fair bit of work and about an hour each. The results speak for themselves.

[sth65pac]

Well I arrived around 10:00 and Ron showed me his 'small' drill press and the smaller version out of picture.
After a quick brief Ron leaped out to his Alvis not to be seen again for some time. I was left to my own devices and after drilling all of the pilot holes I set to task.

The results are just brilliant and I had to check all my lines about five times in disbelief I was making a reproduction part for my truck that was exact. (error by manufacturer and all ).

It look great and thanks Ron for the use of the drill.

More on riveting soon.

Cheers,

Ian

[sth65pac]

Well at the end of a very cold week, I managed to trial fit the new piece.

Very happy so far, just wondering how much the chassis will spread when I take off the RHS welded to the top.

[sth65pac]

Well it got the 'bucket' today so I will endeavor to get all of the photos resized and back up.

cheers,

Ian

[sth65pac]

Well Some more progress over the last few weeks. As I had a run in with photobucket I deleted my account.

I did some sandblasting and prepped a lot of small hardware. Trouble is, the more you do, the more you find.

I removed the temporary brace and the 1/4" rivet misalignment has become about 1/16" ordered additional rivets but they are too small so I'll have to make up some with steel rod.

I bought a 'toy' oxy propane kit which is pretty useless. If it doesnt heat the rivets hot enough I will have to get a proper Oxy Acetelene kit for riveting.

For the eagle eyed- yes there are two Jeep body parts on the table.

Cheers,

Ian

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by sth65pac

Well it got the 'bucket' today so I will endeavor to get all of the photos resized and back up.

Ian, sorry to hear that Photobucket surprised you as well as millions of other users. If you still have the pics you can edit your posts and re-attach them. The forum software resizes photos to a certain extent, but if your pictures are too large you will get a message your "token has expired" or somesuch. Then resize your picture and try again.

HTH,
Hanno