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Don,
Thank you for your appreciative words about my work. It always gives me motivation for the remaining work on assembling the “Sport” and the work on the interior that still lies ahead of me. I hope to get the chrome-stript and newly nickel-plated snap rings, the rim retaining rings and the bolts back this week. Then I have to find a way to pull the snap rings onto the rims without damaging the paint.

Karl

A little update on the silencer... because the electroplating company didn't meet its deadline again... this time the excuse was... that the most important employee is on vacation for 5 weeks and the other one called in sick right today ... so I have to keep waiting and others prefer to work. I sandblasted the end covers and muffler brackets. .... by the way, .. the holders do not belong to the 136 Sport, these holders belong to the 236. The holders are therefore different, but can be easily adapted to the existing frame parts. I turned out the groove inside of the cover on the lathe. They now fit perfectly on the muffler housing tube. The gray cast iron lids have deep rust spots on the outside. For the sake of “visual correctness” I filled it with “Lab-Metal”. For the same reason I also rolled the 4 beads into the outer tube. This was not structurally necessary as the pipe is 2mm thick and therefore very stable. Back then, the beads were used to support the really thin sheet metal of the original muffle. More information about this when I compile the data for construction and renovation and post it here. Why do I pay so much attention to the purely visual work on a silencer....??? ... well, I want the visitors to the car shows and the judges who are always among the cars... to be satisfied and happy.

Karl

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