'55 Fuse Board, ID plate rivets and a bit on painters
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:21 am
Hello, a couple of questions, attached are photos of the back of my fuse board, logic tells me that the disconnections one can see were done at the factory with a drill, you can see where the drill tip just touched the Bakelite, is this correct? Also does anyone know of a source for the cover or have a picture of it?
Regarding the rivets for the ID plate by the petrol tank, at the moment I can't find my photo but if memory serves me correctly they were simple hollow pop rivets and not peened over aluminium, correct?
We have a milestone, she is at the paint shop & to drill the holes for the wing mirrors I had to install the seat and actually sit in it holding the steering wheel yippee, I almost made engine noises! This is the first time ever as before this I was testing things sitting on a plank of wood. Mind you it really reinforced the need for wing mirrors, the rear view vision is dreadful and as for driving in the dark when it was raining or snowing with this and the pathetic little wipers must have been interesting.
There was a question on the forum a couple of months back regarding how to choose a paint shop, this is what happened to me. I initially asked for quotes from classic car workshops I already knew that did very good work. However, just before i committed to one of them a long time family friend of my niece's fiance, who owns a work shop heard what I was working on and got very excited. It's a mid size privately owned work shop that, over the years, has evolved into solely working on high end modern cars, mainly insurance work. It gives him a good living as well as paying the bills, but they find it boring and does not use the skills they spent so much learning. To cut a long story short they asked to quote, when they saw the car they were all over it and were so excited that I went with them. So far it's prooving to be a great choice, the prep work is still going on, lots of guide coats, hammer tapping and sanding, I actually can't see or feel the bits they tell me aren't good enough. Also the paint manufacturers representative is delighted to deal with something different, is researching all sorts of stuff for the colour match and happy to keep mixing test samples until everyone is happy. Frankly I don't think my eyes are discerning enough to see the subtle differences, but I'll just go along with it.
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Regarding the rivets for the ID plate by the petrol tank, at the moment I can't find my photo but if memory serves me correctly they were simple hollow pop rivets and not peened over aluminium, correct?
We have a milestone, she is at the paint shop & to drill the holes for the wing mirrors I had to install the seat and actually sit in it holding the steering wheel yippee, I almost made engine noises! This is the first time ever as before this I was testing things sitting on a plank of wood. Mind you it really reinforced the need for wing mirrors, the rear view vision is dreadful and as for driving in the dark when it was raining or snowing with this and the pathetic little wipers must have been interesting.
There was a question on the forum a couple of months back regarding how to choose a paint shop, this is what happened to me. I initially asked for quotes from classic car workshops I already knew that did very good work. However, just before i committed to one of them a long time family friend of my niece's fiance, who owns a work shop heard what I was working on and got very excited. It's a mid size privately owned work shop that, over the years, has evolved into solely working on high end modern cars, mainly insurance work. It gives him a good living as well as paying the bills, but they find it boring and does not use the skills they spent so much learning. To cut a long story short they asked to quote, when they saw the car they were all over it and were so excited that I went with them. So far it's prooving to be a great choice, the prep work is still going on, lots of guide coats, hammer tapping and sanding, I actually can't see or feel the bits they tell me aren't good enough. Also the paint manufacturers representative is delighted to deal with something different, is researching all sorts of stuff for the colour match and happy to keep mixing test samples until everyone is happy. Frankly I don't think my eyes are discerning enough to see the subtle differences, but I'll just go along with it.
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