2017 at the Hammond Barn

[Bob Carriere]

Door is finished..... now toooooo heavy for a one man install.... in fact I think we will use the bucket on the tractor to raise it in place and slip in the hinge pins.

Heavy door so we installed 5 HD hinge...... had a bucket full of them.

Frame is tacked in place and will need a continuous bead of weld to make sure it does not leak.

Art work below.....

[Jordan Baker]

Looks good. As for doing a full bead weld I'd skip that. Just use that spray sealer for sealing screened for bottomed boats. Surly it should work for sealing some seams that aren't in a sea salt sea environment. Now tell me how many "s" I've used in this post.

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Gord

Yes I have seen a similar sticker inside the containers specifying that a certain kind of steel needed to be used for repairs.

Jordan

With the many freeze/thaw cycles in Ottawa I want to make sure no water infiltrates around the frame. Maybe just one welded on one side then caulked will suffice.

Now I just need to salvage the special hinge brackets from the cab 12 that will allow adjustable/folding mirror arms so I can drive in the sea can without having to unbolt the cast rigid mirror arms.

A final coat of paint then voila!!!!!

......and maybe my pictures will come through this time
Cheers

[Bob Carriere]

With the house generator hooked up to the MIller 210 It was a more pleasant than using the 110V baby mig I used for the tacking.

Even with the shielding gas turned up for outside welding the steel alloy of the container is a bitch to work with. As I did the outside seam a lot of smoke was generated..... turns out there was water already trapped between the flanges.... and what I though was paint burning off was steam..... and the water made the spattering worst. I blew most of it with the air line and there was enough to form a small puddle on the floor inside.

So decided to do a continuous weld seam on the outside......(sorry Jordan) and will caulk the seam for good measure. The inside got a few more robust tacks for my peace of mind. Noticed that the cold steel of the square tubing is already flash rusting......while the container steel that was ground of any paint for welding still looks shiny!!!!!

Hopefully the door will go on later this week.

Cheers

[chris vickery]

Sea cans use Cor-Ten steel, also known as weathering steel. It combines the properties of corrosion resistance and tensile strength. The idea behind this is a steel that requires little to no paint and will withstand many years of outdoor usage.
It is difficult to weld using regular weld materials due to the specific alloys used in it. The alloy materials include copper, nickel and chromium. Suggestions for non structural welds include the common E7018 electrode.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Well done guys. That should make it a lot more functional.

Alex

[Bob Carriere]

Here is a series of pictures of the process.

Door was heavy so we welded a ring at the top and used the tractor bucket to move it around and to hold it up while we installed the pins.

A few days a go while welding the frame into the can I kept hearing pings and boings created by the heat......well the hinges no longer lined up perfectly so a few mils had to be shaved off the hinges.

It eventually fitted in nicely. It was first primed then painted with the funny paint mix I have. The lock system is a 1 inch square tubing sliding within a 1 1/4 steel tube....well lubricated and drilled for a padlock.

The ugly "profilactic" is a section of inner tube to reduce water infiltrating the lock.

Strong as a bank vault.

Ever wonder how little side to side clearance there is when the truck in in the can...... about a hands width.

Still have to install foam rubber seals to make it water tight.

Cheers

[Bob Carriere]

Can't fit in if you are broadminded.

Truck sits close to the rear doors which will give room to build some storage shelves at the front.

It is obvious that I will be using folding rearview mirror arms in the future.

Cheers

[Grant Bowker]

First, my apologies for not posting more frequent updates on what the barn people have been doing. I will try to catch up.
Recently the barn team went on a parts recovery roadtrip. Not a crosscountry or crossborder trip but with some interesting results. Rob got some interesting parts for the M-37 series and I ended up with most of the CMP Cab 13 parts. 2 seats of a pattern I didn't recognize, a cab back panel in fairly good shape, a cab floor of a pattern that I had not seen before (but should have known would exist, a cab nose in less battered than average condition, a couple of 20" rims, PTO tire air compressor and transmission and transfer case (also of a pattern I had not seen before). We were told the CMP parts had all come from a C60L operated by the RCAF. This is consistent with the parts provided and the yellow paint on them that didn't appear to be a recent respray.

[Grant Bowker]

From above it looks like CMP seats I'm familiar with. perhaps less abused than many but otherwise much the same.
From below the mounting I'm familiar with from cabs 11, 12 and 13 isn't there and there are cone shaped mounts on extended studs below the rail. All welded neatly in place. Also the seat position lever is much fancier than I'm used to in cab 11, 12 and 13. Does anyone know what the seats come from?

[Grant Bowker]

As a teaser to the next posts, this is the floor recently recovered. We had it home before we noticed it wasn't the "normal" floor associated with 2 speed transfer cases (or for that matter any other I had seen before).

[Frantisek Nachlinger]

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

From above it looks like CMP seats I'm familiar with. perhaps less abused than many but otherwise much the same.
From below the mounting I'm familiar with from cabs 11, 12 and 13 isn't there and there are cone shaped mounts on extended studs below the rail. All welded neatly in place. Also the seat position lever is much fancier than I'm used to in cab 11, 12 and 13. Does anyone know what the seats come from?

I KNOW THOSE SEATS I NEET THOSE SEATS, AS MANY AS YOU CAN FIND!!! PLEASEEEEE!!

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Frankie