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Thu Dec 26, 2024 11:36 am

Christian, fantastic progress 8)

Antoine

Thu Dec 26, 2024 2:54 pm

Happy if you guys like it!

Today I finished the welding on the corner and start to repair that bedly bend, rusted, welded and bondo -ed? rear apron...

-Christian

Thu Dec 26, 2024 2:58 pm

Huetti_1989 wrote: I hope you guys nit getting bored about that i fighting around for days with that corner...

I repeat myself, i know but for now that was the hardest part to make that panel myself, but we will see what comes in the future....

So pilar and corner is ready now:

-Christian

Fantastic!
It's almost ready, what is missing now? Maybe just a light polish? :lol:
Yeah, that will fix it. Keep it going and up!
Best regards & great New Year.

Thu Dec 26, 2024 5:24 pm

Great progress. Nice work on that reflector section

If you get a chance could you give me the size and thickness of the crank hole reinforcement plate? It is not a part that is often exposed.

Fri Dec 27, 2024 3:43 pm

sgellis wrote: Great progress. Nice work on that reflector section

If you get a chance could you give me the size and thickness of the crank hole reinforcement plate? It is not a part that is often exposed.

Thanks man!!!

Her are the measurements:
And I continue the work on the rear apron, bent it straight and do some rust repair:

Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:50 am

Seeing this detail pic around the taillight opening. Is the old paint just discolored from the rubber seal, or does it look as if your 52 was delivered in (grey) primer and later on painted dove blue, with masking off the taillights ?

my 53 or 54s were all og dove blue , but it is said that more percentage of the older buses were delivered in primer.

Huetti_1989 wrote:

Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:32 pm

Huetti_1989 wrote:
Her are the measurements:

Thanks! I will add these to my drawings.

Sun Dec 29, 2024 2:54 pm

sgellis wrote: Huetti_1989 wrote:
Her are the measurements:

Thanks! I will add these to my drawings.

Thanks, i used that drawings for recheck the frame on the rear!
I am happy for all that informations here, also for future builds!

-Christian

Sun Dec 29, 2024 2:56 pm

djfordmanjack wrote: Seeing this detail pic around the taillight opening. Is the old paint just discolored from the rubber seal, or does it look as if your 52 was delivered in (grey) primer and later on painted dove blue, with masking off the taillights ?

my 53 or 54s were all og dove blue , but it is said that more percentage of the older buses were delivered in primer.

Huetti_1989 wrote:

No, as you can see in the birth certificate this one delivered in dove blue, sadly it's a lot of spray bono, repaint dove blue and moss over it...

-Christian

Sun Dec 29, 2024 2:59 pm

Continue the work on that nasty rear apron, now repaired all that former damage and bad weldings with slightly better welding:

-Christian

Mon Dec 30, 2024 4:22 pm

Finished the rear apron:
I made a new inner part, the old one were sadly paper thin.

-Christian

Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:59 am

Finished the light repairs on the spare tire tray i get from erich.

Fits perfect!

Started to make a pressing tool like segellis here showed, works good but need a lot of shrinking all around, but now i am finished for thes year.

Happy bew year!

-Christian

Tue Dec 31, 2024 2:51 pm

a guads neix Joahr ! :D

Tue Dec 31, 2024 4:18 pm

Huetti_1989 wrote: works good but need a lot of shrinking all around

Filling in the ends of the female die will help some. You can also pre stretch the rib area but I found it was easier just to use the shrinker after.

Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:01 pm

djfordmanjack wrote: a guads neix Joahr ! :D

You too

Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:03 pm

sgellis wrote: Huetti_1989 wrote: works good but need a lot of shrinking all around

Filling in the ends of the female die will help some. You can also pre stretch the rib area but I found it was easier just to use the shrinker after.

Ok, thanks, I tried bouth, pre stretching don't work good, shrinking is not that easy in that big area.

-Christian

Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:10 pm

While dinking a lot of old wine at the new year party I thinked aboy how i can shrink the waves out of the pressed parts.

So after a short nap i were back in the shop done the whole day pressing an shrinking:
-Christian

Thu Jan 02, 2025 2:41 pm

A lot of cutting hammering, shrinking, stretching and cursing later...

The 4 parts of the parcel tray fit in the place, I maybe repeat myself but again that's the most difficult part so far for me!

Now finally i go to bed with looong arms from that work.

-Christian

Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:04 am

That parcel shelf looks very good, well done.

Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:58 pm

ddutch wrote: That parcel looks very good, well done.

Thanks, i also love it, but still a ton of work.

Today i weld 4 pieces together and make them fit to the car.

I am not sure if i should weld that two parts together in the car because its near impossible to bring the in the car in one piece...

-Christian