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Re: A '54 named Busty
Oem!
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05-08-2021, 01:14 PM | #2 |
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Re: A '54 named Busty
Get the box.
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Ok Schrodinger, I think the box needs some attention.
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so do we buy a brand new cardboard box for $15 bucks and call it a day? or...
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05-08-2021, 01:18 PM | #6 |
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Make your cardboard box, lay it up with fiberglass on the backside for strength. You got nuthin else to do, right? Only cost triple what the new one would but think of the fun and itchiness you could have. Haha.
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that sounds tempting, but I have something much more dangerous in mind, ha ha
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we go out and spend $600 on raw materials, and another $900 on a single purpose tool we will never use again, and then we try to make our own box and never finish it...
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so yeah had to make it out of two pieces cause I couldn't find a single piece big enuff
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it will get rivited all the way around for now I just popped some on in the front, one on each side to hold it together while I figure out the mounting holes
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first trial fitment
FYI it is 13 1/2 inches wide 12" deep 5 1/4" tall just big enuff to hold my speeding tickets |
05-09-2021, 07:49 AM | #12 |
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That turned out nice.
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Nice work
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05-08-2021, 07:56 PM | #14 |
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forgot to compensate for the circumference of the earth, so she got a little trim
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05-08-2021, 07:59 PM | #15 |
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these speed nuts are still the bestest way to mount it as the holes are all podawhumpuse, especially when she flexes in the corners on the race track, ha ha
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05-08-2021, 08:01 PM | #16 |
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the wife left the fan outside so I had to hide in my time out corner to primer it, otherwise it was wayyyyy toooo windy AGAIN
FYI the sheet metal I got was galvanized (that's all Home Depot had) so I washed it in Phosphoric acid, then neutralized it with Baking Soda water, then sanded it off, then etched it with Phosphoric acid again, and washed it off with Baking Soda water for the second time. Last edited by Gregski; 05-10-2021 at 11:52 AM. |
05-09-2021, 10:40 AM | #17 |
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Turned out nice.
If you dont wanna see the ends of the rivets you could use steel stud screws, with the big flat head, and speed nuts on the backside. Nobody is gonna look in the glove box though and rivets are not sharp on the backside. |
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I already have Pontiac Mike my buddy breathing down my neck saying rivet from the inside out to make it look mo bettah on the inside, (but that's hard and I don't know if that cheap rivet plier gun vice grip thing will even fit) so once it is painted I will make a Game Time decision Omaha, Omaha, ha ha |
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I've been told that there are three types of people:
1. Those that watch things happen. 2. Those that make things happen. 3. Those that ask what the hell just happened. You, sir, are those that make things happen. I love the wiring and the glove box. Awesome work. |
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Man I ain't gonna lie today was one of them days
I spent the first 4 hours just spinning my wheels in the garage, then my soldering iron gave up the ghost, I guess doing all that re wiring wore her out, funny thing is this was my second iron, the first one lasted me 20 years and was the serviceable kind but like an idiot I tossed it and bought this one which barely made it two years and instead of having three tiny screws to open her up they popped in a rivette, oh well I already bought my third in hind sight I should have gone to a Thrift Store and bought an old fashion one for like .99 cents and had it for another 20 years, I may still do that, Oh Well(er) |
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who says I ain't tryin'
here I decided to wash the worst of the three buckets, yes I own three seats just like this one, this one was the dirtiest of them all so I finger if I can clean this one than maybe I can clean the others plus I need something to sit on while the other two go to the leather house and who knows when I'll get them back here I am using the orange stuff with plum juice |
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so I went to start her today for the first time since looming the entire engine wiring harness and buttoning her up for the last(ish) time
and she would crank but not start my heart sank, miles of wires hidden in yards of conduit ran through my mind, I dreaded the idea of having to troubleshoot all of that then I calmed myself down and said: When dealing with LSes You know it comes down to three things right? 1. groundsso I eyeballed the ground boundle, and I wiggled it with my hand, yup, nice and tight, started to pull up on them one by one, and the last one ended up in my hand yup Professor Silky Smooth hide the wiring loom under the engine forgot to ground the separate trick PCM branch, no worries it was only 19 ground wires bundled into one, ha ha so grounded those, and she winked at me and fired right up We'll call that the Anti Theft Device. |
05-11-2021, 08:44 AM | #24 |
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I like my Weller, and she fired up. Forget about the stuff before that, she fired up!!! Oh that'll be the day...
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