Otter LRC CM4647296 comes home

[Robert Bergeron]

You are a metal magician Jordan !

[David Dunlop]

Nice looking plating again, Jordan.

I have not worked with nickel yet, myself, but am toying with the idea, if I can figure out how a ‘Satin Nickel Finish’ is arrived at. How do the nickel plated parts look, right after the plating process and dried off a bit?

David

[Jordan Baker]

Thanks guys, I owe it to David for posting about this with his wireless rebuild.

As for a satin nickel, I don’t think there is much we can do at the home level. A lot will have to do with the surface finish of the base metal. From what I’ve read, some will beadblast or use a scotch bright pad to scuff the metal. Then plate.

Right out of the solution it was dead flat. I used a buffing wheel and it polished up.

[Jordan Baker]

Battery disconnect switch is now finished. Painted and baked in the oven. This should easily give another 80 years of service.

[Jordan Baker]

This afternoon I removed the two forward equipment panels. Underneath the drivers side one I found a hand painted number. I believe this to be a possible hull number. Also interesting was the red rubber pads glued to the backside of each panel.

[Jordan Baker]

The proper NOS fuses arrived in the mail today from England and were installed into the fuse box.

[Jordan Baker]

The originality of this vehicle continues to impress me. I found some more inked stamped part numbers on the panels. Also included is some detail pictures of the wheat lamp charging box