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10-01-2024, 02:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Leonardtown, MD
Posts: 1,647
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Re: 55 Wagon Progress
Well, it's about high time we got back on the console...
  We had designed the "hoop" to go around each leg of the horseshoe shifter, and to hold bulb seal rather than a strip brush, for a cleaner look. When we ordered the shifter it came with the new clear bezel for gear indication, but since we didn't have the factory console and it's matching parts, it was a bit much for us to incorporate into our fabricated console. In an attempt at simpler is better, one of the hoops was made with a wider flange for adding gear indicator nomenclature.  Well, we have been waiting awhile for our turn in line at the machine shop, and that day finally arrived   Next was the layout of the locations...  The ends of the slots were cut using a 5/8 diameter RotaCut, joined together between with a Milwaukee M18 14 ga shear, and trimmed afterwards using Wurth snips. https://youtube.com/shorts/vA83vJVWn...KUzlgmDHCVFgM7 Then the 4-way power window switch was added to the rear, using the same process.   And lastly, our AC vents added. I didn't have any RotoCuts in the 2-1/2 diameter, so we opted for using a hole saw. They can be sketchy when cutting through sheet metal, with the pilot drill wanting to pull the hole sideways. So we sacrificed an extra holesaw arbor to make a bolt-in guide, and changed the pilot bit out for a piece of 1/4 round stock.     Holes deburred and vents installed..  Final version https://youtube.com/shorts/P94H8M4Ut...YffFOc_l96Whkg https://youtube.com/shorts/6lWksNqKv...sE_F7LUX7CDUhV
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