Re: 1924 Sport 136
Posted by Karl On 2024/2/18 14:09:02
I'm still waiting for half of my body parts to be painted. But there is still some other work to be done. In one of my “Pre War” posts I reported on the making of my Leaf Gaiters (!!). I will post these pictures here again to complete this restoration blog and to show the missing illustrations of the gaiters.
I had underestimated the time involved in making the gaiters and had forgotten how much time it took to make them. I made the last gaiters for my Jaguar XK 140 28 years ago.
A total of 88 leather pieces had to be cut. What makes matters worse is that at some point someone changed the brackets of some of the spring leaves and the cuts had to be specially adjusted. In addition, all the parts in front of and behind the axles are of different lengths. I was able to buy the belt at the ends of the gaiters ready-made. They just had to be cut. To tie the gaiters together, I riveted in 192 lace hooks. 16 pieces of leather had to be sharpened on the leather splitting machine in order to fold over the edge and thus enable optimal riveting of the tip hooks.
Karl
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I had underestimated the time involved in making the gaiters and had forgotten how much time it took to make them. I made the last gaiters for my Jaguar XK 140 28 years ago.
A total of 88 leather pieces had to be cut. What makes matters worse is that at some point someone changed the brackets of some of the spring leaves and the cuts had to be specially adjusted. In addition, all the parts in front of and behind the axles are of different lengths. I was able to buy the belt at the ends of the gaiters ready-made. They just had to be cut. To tie the gaiters together, I riveted in 192 lace hooks. 16 pieces of leather had to be sharpened on the leather splitting machine in order to fold over the edge and thus enable optimal riveting of the tip hooks.
Karl
Attach file:
k-P1030727 - Kopie.JPG (153.09 KB)
k-P1040336.JPG (117.17 KB)
k-P1040337.JPG (103.90 KB)
k-P1040390.JPG (81.96 KB)
k-P1040392 - Kopie.JPG (90.76 KB)
k-P1040393 - Kopie.JPG (93.91 KB)
k-P1040394 - Kopie.JPG (121.11 KB)
k-P1040339.JPG (131.74 KB)
k-P1040342.JPG (143.91 KB)
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