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Today I got up early and spent the day cleaning up the second of the two rear bumper irons to remove all the rust and pitting. After lunch I gave them a coat of etch primer and used the heat of my oven (after cooking lunch) to bake the paint. http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii221/DarrenLCollins/B...

The finished Interior Door Handles look superb and tactile without ripping the skin off your fingers on the old razor sharp chrome blisters!

Hi Jimmy, glad it worked out for you. At the end of last week I unwrapped the interior door levers that I’d got back from the chrome platers. They looked superb so I started to re assemble. Here’s how they looked as bought. The chrome was completely shot and pitted badly they were very rough to the ...

So is it a nut & bolt, or is Kerry correct?

Tonight I spent 5 ½ hours working on the first of the rear bumper irons. The car they came off must have had a rear collision as both irons were bent out of shape. I spent a while straightening it and sorting out the threaded hole before filing down all the surface rust then progressive emery paper ...

Wow Tom, I'd hate to think what might of happenned if it had given way at speed. It does go to show exactly what I said earlier about over ground or re-machined wheels being thin and weaker. I have seen some scary wheel refurbishments in my time, ground thin, welded and even once stripped paint off ...

Here’s a few parts I managed to buy cheaply due to condition. I was very lucky to get bonnet (hood) hinges, bonnet spring restraints, rear bumper irons and the brackets that hold the interior door levers. I’d been searching over a year now for the hinges so I was really pleased to eventually find so...

Today I finished cleaning of the flux and tidying up the silver brazed restraint lumps. I then spent a couple of hours fine wet & drying the new arms to a mirror finish. The originals are mild steel with bright zinc plate (BZP), so they do rust as shown at the beginning of this thread. My new ones a...

Sounds like my ex-wife

None of my metalshop stuff turned out that nice! :lol: Brilliant Tom, you did make me chuckle. I was making stuff far more complex than these age 11 years, by age 15 I made my own lathe powered by a drill. I made the bed, headstock and saddle in woodwork class, sand cast it in aluminium, milled, dr...

Tonight I made the two raised semi-circular lumps that go on the opposite side of the pressed lump from a small piece of left over off cut stainless. http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii221/DarrenLCollins/330checkstraps3003_zps47468c13.jpg Once I filed the correct radius, I cut it into two 6.5mm se...

Thanks John. Michael, I wish I had time to make more... the two straps have taken about 12 hours so far and I' ve still got to make the inserts and braze them in! The pins are easy, Turning them on my lathe will take minutes, so I don't mind doing some spare ones for anyone without a lathe. The Chec...

This afternoon I got some 3mm stainless steel plate I had left over from making some other brackets and roughed out two new check strap arms with my hacksaw. (I opted for the more curved shape) http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii221/DarrenLCollins/330checkstraps2001_zps261a3d3c.jpg After a couple ...

Hi Lowell, Have you seen my post yesterday on these checkstraps? I'd like to know what pin is used too, as mine are completely missing. Once we know what it should look like I'm gonna turn some down on my lathe, so your most welcome to a set, but I need to know exact sizes, length, diameter, head di...

Today I started work on some check straps I got off ebay for £3 http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii221/DarrenLCollins/330checkstraps003_zpsee767df3.jpg The straps have obviously had a hard life with a really badly welded end on one and a cracked end on the other where the metal just fell off when ...