Re: The Duchess Project: 1940 Super 8 Convertible Sedan
Posted by Joe Santana On 2011/5/31 10:25:19
REAR DOORS: Door handles, moulding, and weatherstrip installed. Now waiting for the roll-up window gear pins to be machined in order to install windows, which I restored in the 90s with total clean up, new rubber around the glass and channel. So nice to be able to pull something out of the trunk and have all that work already done.
FRONT DOOR: Right front door is the next challenge. I'm trying to remove the lock from an extra handle to use in the re-chromed one whose lock is shot. One comes out, the other does not.
I spent almost 2 hours just loosening the vent window handle back then, working it back and forth in 100ths of an inch. The metals must have migrated together. All new rubber and channel lining for the front door windows, too.
The finish on the door is like glass. Magnificent job. Metal in the bottoms of all these doors was replaced. When rubber dries out, water gets in. Rust in the bottom of a door is the worst. You don't see it until it's too late.
The left front door will be ready today to pick up.
BODY: The final piece, which probably should have gone in first, will go in late today or tomorrow. Just a problem of space at the shop at the time we started.
UPHOLSTERY: To start this week.
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FRONT DOOR: Right front door is the next challenge. I'm trying to remove the lock from an extra handle to use in the re-chromed one whose lock is shot. One comes out, the other does not.
I spent almost 2 hours just loosening the vent window handle back then, working it back and forth in 100ths of an inch. The metals must have migrated together. All new rubber and channel lining for the front door windows, too.
The finish on the door is like glass. Magnificent job. Metal in the bottoms of all these doors was replaced. When rubber dries out, water gets in. Rust in the bottom of a door is the worst. You don't see it until it's too late.
The left front door will be ready today to pick up.
BODY: The final piece, which probably should have gone in first, will go in late today or tomorrow. Just a problem of space at the shop at the time we started.
UPHOLSTERY: To start this week.
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