After that came Fabrication, fabrication and more fabrication of brackets and all of the fasteners to put this thing together. When I purchased this project I did not get the lid to this giant puzzle that states ( Fabrication a Welding skills are a must when assembling). I am over 743 bolts I had to get together so far of various lengths as well as the different head styles as to get it back to look as original as possible as most of the bolts I had were in very poor to non existent from the years it was under the ground. I used a lot of the stove bolts as they are similar to the dome head bolts of the carrier but when it came to the counter sunk screws ARRR. as the BSF style is about half the head diameter and depth I had to machine all of the down to size and re cut the slot in them which took a lot of time. Also I machined all of the markings on the ends of the bolts so they looked more like the bolts of the time
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