2016 at the Hammond Barn

[Bob Carriere]

Will take you up on that.

Should be early June.

Re-adjusted all the brakes today and purged all the 4 year old brake fluid out with new more of the same synthetic fluid.

Greased everything except the U joints and that is for tomorrow.

Doors not fitting real nice....close with a solid clunk!!!!!

Wiring all done except for fuel tank sender on back order and turn signal switch.

Stay tuned.

[RHClarke]

With the enviro-nuts running the asylum in Ontario, spraying anything other than government approved herbicides (weak at best) on your lawn is verboten! This results in the proliferation of millions upon millions of dandelions. Pretty little yellow flowers that chokes your grass to death. And when they are ready to procreate, we get dandelion fluff blizzards. It is a sight to behold! Ask Bob.

This past weekend we decided to take advantage of the good weather and paint some parts out of doors. There was no wind, leaving just the Hammond Airforce to bother us. That is until we actually put paint to metal. Then the breeze picked up and the dandelions began their mating.

The result of all of this fluff is seen below. Bob was not impressed, and I am sure he can add commentary later on.

[Stuart Fedak]

Thanks for the post. It is appreciated. I was going to do some painting outside in the back yard, but now I will postpone until the dandelions have abated for a few days. One more reason to just work on preparing parts for painting. I never even considered the affect of the dandelions on the paint surface. This has been the warmest several days in a long time and I was working like mad getting all the bits and pieces gathered, cleaned and washed with Varsal solvent.

I have a lot of parts to paint and I thought I knew where they all were. When it came around to actually finding them, many were in hiding. I am sure you know the feeling when you misplace some parts that you cleaned up several years ago.....

Cheers!
Stuart

[Bob Carriere]

Mosquitoes landing in POR is the worst.

Had to redo both doors...... a pain. Second time was a charm as I painted inside the barn with the doors hanging.

Tie coat is on now for the OD this afternoon.

Cheers

[Jordan Baker]

I just had the same issue today with dandelion fluff and fresh POR. I normally just leave it alone and carry on as if it isn't there. At the end of the day we are not painting show cars with glass like finishes.

[Bob Carriere]

....and wiped the doors with Brake cleaner before the POR hardened..... what a mess....used a plastic scrapper and squeeged both doors....... sanded what was left....... Phospated again and repainted hanging inside the barn with POR..... had a few mosquitoes but this time it was fine...tie coat and two coats of OD.... looks good now.

Slowly getting there.

[Bob Carriere]

Started off digging up the video connection to the house which some dum dum ripped up with the rototiller.... fortunately the internet provider was understanding and was back on line in 12 hours.

Dug up the tool nox for tha cab 11 and sandblasted.... phosphated.... and POR 15 semi gloss black. Of course the black hood was very hot in the sun by 5 bags later it was done..... tomorrow the tie coat.... or coats trying to hide the rust pits..... then the OD....

Found the usual rust moth holes that were quickly welded shut.

Rob took a before picture which he will post later...... box is the original to the truck..... rusted but complete. Plans are to POR in Gray for the inside.

Neat how the box is designed to hold two POW cans in corner pockets.

Cheers