[tcb] Re: Holy crap!
- From: Bob Perring <perring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:12:36 -0600
It's good to feel good !!
At 20:04 11/30/2005, Denis wrote:
At the bottom of the opening where the cargo doors hang, down where
the door pins go into holes to hold the door closed is an area that
I am sure that few people have bent over, put on their glasses and
actually studied. It seems to be two or three layers of steel where
the cargo floor and the outer sheet metal meet. Where over 40 years
rust has invaded the different layers and spread them apart until it
looks like baklava.
I scraped and ground and sanded and beat and cleaned and sprayed
with Miracle Rust Converter, then I used some 3/8 channel aluminum
to enclose the whole edge. Of course this meant that the pins would
not align with the holes to hold the doors closed. So I ground and
cut and bench ground and wire brushed and it wouldn't close. The
pins wouldn't go into the holes. In all the years I have had my bus
I always had to put my shoulder to the cargo door to close it and it
always opened with a "WHANG" whenever I opened it.
Well, no matter what I did I could not get the pins to go until I
backed off and simply closed the door and turned the handle. It was
like Buttah. I did it like, 10 times, perfect.
It's like I'm working on the bus for the first time,
I am going to send pics of this project to Dan and he can figure out
how to show them.
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