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splitjunkie Samba Member
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:54 am Post subject: Re: '47 Beetle resurrection |
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Not a great picture but every bit helps.
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WrennMetallWerks Samba Member
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finster Samba Member
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:14 am Post subject: Re: '47 Beetle resurrection |
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I expect at this time of early post-war production they used whatever they could get. kamax were back in business in '45.
have you seen this thread?
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...mp;start=0 _________________ "we're here on Earth to fart around" kurt vonnegut
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DSweinhagen Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2021 6:50 am Post subject: Re: '47 Beetle resurrection |
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WrennMetallWerks wrote: |
Hey Folks.
So I started digging up Kamax bolts for stuff like spring plates, backing plates , front end and other stuff.
While I was doing it I had the realization that I don’t actually know that the 47 used Kamax in these areas.
Do any of you fine folks know what was what back then.
Thanks in advance,
Jason. |
From memory... The '47 I did had some Kamax, but not much. I think the majority were Rasche and some Dorn. _________________ David S |
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virtanen Samba Member
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splitjunkie Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2021 1:15 pm Post subject: Re: '47 Beetle resurrection |
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DSweinhagen wrote: |
WrennMetallWerks wrote: |
Hey Folks.
So I started digging up Kamax bolts for stuff like spring plates, backing plates , front end and other stuff.
While I was doing it I had the realization that I don’t actually know that the 47 used Kamax in these areas.
Do any of you fine folks know what was what back then.
Thanks in advance,
Jason. |
From memory... The '47 I did had some Kamax, but not much. I think the majority were Rasche and some Dorn. |
I would suspect that all three were suppliers at the same time and no two cars will have the exact same combination.
Fasteners would have been purchased in bulk and distributed throughout the factory with zero consideration for who made them. They would have come in boxes, barrels or crates.
If a bin was empty it would get filled with whatever they had in bulk. Depending on how they were distributed, there would be different patterns on what would end up on a car. If they ran out of one container while filling a bin, they would get some from the next. It could be the same supplier or one of the other two.
You could have bins will all Kamaz, some with all Rasche and some with all Dorn but you could just as easily have bins with all three.
If one of these companies was the primary supplier and supplied them in larger numbers than the others, then you will see them more often, but we don't know that information so as long as a bolt is one of the three and has the correct markings, I wouldn't sweat it too much. _________________ Chris
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WrennMetallWerks Samba Member
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SplitPersonality Samba Member
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 1:09 am Post subject: Re: '47 Beetle resurrection |
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Love your attention to detail Jason!
A note on the hardware: The 3 bolts that hold the rear axle to the spring plates.... These are "important" in terms of quality - and - they need to be fine threaded (as original of course).
We found it impossible to find good OG ones (in terms of non-wear-quality you would trust) and ended up doing this:
Bought a modern day hex bolt, smoothened out the head completely on a lathe and black-coated them.
"A smooth head is better than a modern day marked head" - as we say in the business...haha. |
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rod_vw Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 7:34 am Post subject: Re: '47 Beetle resurrection |
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Beautiful! No other word for it. _________________ Rod,
Please visit http://www.historicvws.org.uk
https://www.facebook.com/historicvwclub/
1946 Beetle (Back on the road after over 50 years! Last major outing - Hessisch Oldendorf 2022)
2016 T6 Selfbuild Camper and a LWB MAN TGE in build. |
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finster Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 7:39 am Post subject: Re: '47 Beetle resurrection |
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oOoh green! nice!
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