Otter LRC CM4647296 comes home

[Jordan Baker]

Lastly some seat parts all painted up. The turret seat is now mounted on the basket frame. Interestingly it used square headed bolts and nuts. The originals were too rusted out so new ones were used in place.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Lastly some seat parts all painted up. The turret seat is now mounted on the basket frame. Interestingly it used square headed bolts and nuts. The originals were too rusted out so new ones were used in place.

Nice work again, Jordan. That lower seat bar almost looks like it's made of wood with all that pitting! It's great to see you are trying to save as much original metal as possible, preserving the history of the vehicle.

[Jordan Baker]

Thanks Alex. I figured the vehicle is still quite original, so I should use as much as possible. The seat bar did get repaired the other year. One arm had a split in it and the other arm was pretty much cracked. Pictures are posted earlier in this thread.

[Jordan Baker]

Pretty happy with how this small handle for the seats is coming along. The original was cast. The one I’m making was cut out from a piece of flat steel bar. Just have to do the mounting hole.

[Jordan Baker]

Got around to removing the smoke round rack. It was held on by two bolts that did not want to come out. I ended up drilling the heads out. This part is in pretty good shape and will clean up nicely. The awesome surprise when I lifted the one end up…..some 303 casings.

[Jordan Baker]

In total I found 7. Four of them are 1943, one is 1942 and the last two are 1950. I was hopeful they might have been fired during the war. But the two 1950’s dated ones have the same strike pattern as the others suggesting all were fired by the same Bren. Regardless it is still a great discovery.

[Jordan Baker]

I hope this post is riveting….. The hood latches were all cast parts with the pivot base riveted to the side hood panels. What was supposed to be a simple job turned into a two days and still not done job. All went well then I ran short on the rivets. Finally after hours of searching for 7/32 dia ones, found a supply of them at PeavyMart. Had to call three stores before staff could confirm they actually had a box. Drove to Brantford to pick them up and had a nice family outing. Tonight, I managed to get 4 of the 6 in before running out of acetylene for the torch. Tomorrow will be day 3 of a 1 day job… as for the actual riveting. I setup using the shop press to hold everything in nice and tight. Then the torch to heat up the long end of the rivet until it’s almost melting. A ball peen hammer finished off peening the rivets down.