More Ontario restorations

[Bob Phillips]

The real highlight of the day was the repair and riveting of a WW1 FWD frame by Tim Gillies and his support crew (Neil Yeo on air gun, Matt Furber juggling hot rivets, Gord on bucking bar) . Tim has been working on this project for a number of years and it is starting to come together. ( follow him at.. FWD Model B Truck Restoration, Facebook) While many of our WW2 project feature riveted frames or armour I have never had a chance to see the job done. I witnessed about 50 plus, rivets going into into the frame that day and as the crew gained some experience the results looked better and better! Mild steel rivets were heated to cherry red then fitted into holes in the frame that had been drilled for size and alignment. A delay in getting the rivet in straight or stuck at an angle meant rapid cooling of the rivet and a sometimes less than satisfactory result. When all was done, a few of the new rivets were removed and replaced and the improved results was gratifying to all involved. All in all a very interesting day, and many thanks to Tim and to Gord for hosting it!

rivettA.jpg rivettB.jpg rivettD.jpg

[Jordan Baker]

Great post and thanks for sharing. Richie Harrisson is the go to guy for hot riveting.

[Yeo.NT]

A bit of a delay, here is the the team Riveting the chassis

https://youtu.be/LnN3KoHleVw?feature=shared

[CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé]

Originally Posted by Yeo.NT

A bit of a delay, here is the the team Riveting the chassis

https://youtu.be/LnN3KoHleVw?feature=shared

Bravo a super team that does a super work.
Gilles

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Gord

Will you be using a pipe A frame with the winch?????.......'cause I know where there is one........ not quite complete but available for a very low price....

Cheers

[Gordon Yeo]

Bob and Bob

Unfortunately the Chevrolet 30 cwt is a bitsa truck, I think that its original livery would have been a LAAT. It is a 1942 year and does not have helper springs so an early 13 cab truck. The engineers box was available (although it was in Manitoba) so wrong box for the truck. The offer of the A frame is appreciated but I have no desire to have equipment in the truck box. Thank you for the offer. Just because it may do 80 K doesn't meant it will be driven that fast.

Gord

[Ganmain Tony]

Gday Gent's

Your stable is looking fantastic Gordon and Neil.

Very curious about the Engineers body. Can you expand on its background?

Are they Canadian built? Were they on 30 Hundred weight trucks only, or on 60's as well.

Did they have a canopy? Or did they all have that Derrick crane in the back?

More pictures would be great.

We may have stumbled across one down here Down Under.

Cheers, Ganmain Tony

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Yeo.NT

A bit of a delay, here is the the team Riveting the chassis

https://youtu.be/LnN3KoHleVw?feature=shared

Nice work ! Team work in action. Looks like a hobby type propane fuel forge that the knife making fraternity use.

[Yeo.NT]

Yes the forge was procured for forging knives, but as shown it makes short work at heating rivets.

This is one of those times when all the required equipment and personnel were in the right place and the right time. If I was still posted in Manitoba the rivets would have been heated with a roofers torch instead of my forge.