How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

I bought these last night at Princess Auto. They should work fine in the shop

[Jordan Baker]

Picked up some nice NOS and slightly used CMP parts todaywhile at a steam show. Even found two of the larger no2 clips. That takes. Are of the three I needed for the truck.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Jordan

That is quite the score of CMP parts at the steam show, I am always amazed at the stuff that shows up at odd flea markets. You would think after 70+ years that it would all have been found, used, or scrapped by now. Glad that somebody thought enough of it to take it to a show to move it along to somebody else, thats recycling.

Glad you found the engine stand idea of use. Agree with the use of hard steel wheels. I have a 337 Flathead Lincoln engine on one of mine right now engine and transmission weight is something north of 900lbs. Rolling it around on the smooth shop floor still takes some effort. Particularly if you roll it through the kitty litter / aka speed dry turns it to dust.

Cheers Phil

[Jordan Baker]

Finished building the engine stand. I also made up a metal stamping die for some small parts I needed to make a bunch of. Works well and I simply use my vice to press the two together and form the metal.

[Jordan Baker]

Things have been quiet in the build. This year I set out to get the wire-3 box rebuilt and on the chassis. Well the was accomplished. Recently ve just been working on a number of smaller mini projects that I've wanted to get done.

I was able to track down a 5/8-18 die to clean up the threads on the original frame to box U bolts. I discovered the NOS ones were for the big CMP's so I had to cut them down and then re cut the threads lower. Once I feel like crawling under the frame they will get mounted.

Today I realized I needed to make the four clamping strips Mountings, Carriers, No1. I ended up using stainless that was sand blasted and then sanded to replicate the finish that the originals had. Once I get more of the shock mounts done I'll be getting these mounted to the wireless table.

Lastly I finished setting up my shop press. I picked up the shop made frame from a neighbour for $20. Then Princess Auto had their 10ton porta power set on sale. The frame was made to fit the Princess Auto ram so it was just a matter of threading the ram in. I did have one small issue. The fittings on both the hose and the rams would not screw together. A trip yesterday back to Princess Auto and I got them to give me new fittings. Today I finished up press forming 24 pieces for another project.

[Bob Carriere]

With the scale models and the full size models youze a busy guy!!!!!

[Jordan Baker]

Spare time... amazingly I do get bored some days but I do enjoy staying busy. I find shop work and model building very relaxing.