Patrick Tipton
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Byron - looks great! I continue to be impressed with your pace! As we would say, you are "getting after it". Well done! Patrick
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My biggest question is where are these pictures being taken? If that is your shop, we are going to have to throw you out of the group - that space is impossibly clean!🤣 Looking fantastic my friend! Patrick
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The side is all welded but for the front and back seams. Pretty happy with everything and the plug welds ended up distorting the side enough that I think it will look factory with paint. God help the guy in 2120 who attempts to remove the side to restore this bad boy - this side is welded on! 🤣 I got the hull back on my rotisserie. I don't have the balance right....my adjusting mechanism is a terrible design but I am going to manually get the balance right, finish the hull and then address my balance mechanism at a later point.
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Thanks @OZM29C - I appreciate you continuing to keep me out of the ditches! 😁 Cool modification and I really don't love removing the history but... Regards, Patrick
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I am almost finished with the seemingly endless plug welds. Plenty of grinding left to do but I am getting there. I went ahead and started working on the engine cover/instrument panel - mostly because I wanted to ensure that the driver seat brackets go in the right spot. It is in decent shape but had a couple of holes that needed filling, some poor old repairs and a bunch of dents. Fun to start working on some of these details! I removed the lower panel/cover where the driver heat door is because it was ugly. It is really thin sheet metal and the spot welds pop right off. I need to try and fix this panel too - or I might make a new one. I was a little concerned about getting the right radius so I only patched the missing sections. If you look at these pictures, you can see the bend immediately above the hole is quite out of shape. I should have either worked harder to fix that section before welding in the patch or just bent up a patch and welded the entire length because it has been hard to get the crease/bend line straight. It is getting there, but I still have more to do.
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Appreciate it @5280Beltfed!
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Nice!
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The information they put in these manuals always amazes me.... - well played @Kislerich 😂
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I think you are in trouble.....😀 Welcome to the slippery slope of Weasel owners/enthusiasts. Congrats - looks like a nice and pretty complete M29C.... Look forward to seeing your restoration/refurb. By the way, I have been restoring my 200 year old farm house for 20 years.... my wife is a saint. Patrick
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Yes I did....fortunately, although they were very rusty in this area, I was able to get all of the captive nut locations off of the original hat channels. I have a friend an hour or so away with a very original T24 too...and I have made a couple of trips to measure and draw. Thanks for keeping me in line and out of the ditches John! ...on that note, I did forget one captive nut in the passenger area (the hat channel was all rotted away)....I will cut part of the hat channel away and fix it....
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Very exciting John - you are really getting close! Looking great. Patrick
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Wrapping up the side installation. The plug welds are slow going and lots of grinding! All that being said....the driver compartment is nearly finished...just need to finish the passenger section. Onward!
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Welcome - cool Weasel!
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Welcome Pips! Sounds like you got yourself a big project - congrats! If I were you, I might think about buying another machine - probably in the states and just shipping it over. I think you will save money in the long run. Otherwise, I think you are going to spend more having smaller parts shipped to you. What is the likelihood of finding a good parts machine in the Netherlands? As for the repairs to the hull - just a lot of welding and grinding. There are very few parts on the hull that you can't make in a simple shop so fire up your angle grinder, get some 18 gauge steel and your welder and get after it! I would suggest you start a rebuild thread so we can all follow along! Patrick
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Appreciate it John @OZM29C. I am definitely looking forward to wrapping up these repairs over the next couple of weeks and moving on to the mechanicals. You are so very right about the memory.... I hardly remember the hours and hours of prep work necessary to remove the drivers side.... Have you ever tried this overlap/tack/cut on a 45 degree method of making a patch? I learned it from a couple of Youtube videos- very easy way to get great results. Cheers! Patrick
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I am wrapping up the top seam on this new side. It is coming along nicely and should be finished in another session or so. The process is pretty straightforward. I tack the side a little above where the seam will be. First picture. Then I cut on a 45 degree angle with the angle grinder and a cutting wheel....more or less following the top of the new side and cutting through both the new side and the underlying original metal. This leaves a nice bevel and you then push the new side down flush and tack again. You can see this in picture 2. Place tacks until the seam is welding and clean up. Picture 3 is after the first pass. I missed a couple of spots in this one and there is a little porosity (hard to clean original metal on inside) so had to add a few tacks. The rest of the photos are after the second welding pass in spots, a little angle grinder and maybe a little 3m pad to really make it look nice.
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John - that is really looking nice. Well done! Patrick
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Nice job. You are making me feel like a slacker!😂 Question on the rotisserie - I ended up with a similar design with threaded rod to try and get the hull in balance for easy turning. I found it very hard to adjust the rod - did you use a jack or anything to remove part of the weight or does this design function as planned? Thanks!
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@OZM29C do me a favor and email me a "zipped" version of the last picture. That is what the tech guys are asking for to figure out why....
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Yes and no. The product is advertised to work with spot welders....you can spot weld through the sealer as I understand it. After I applied it to the seam - trying to stay clear of the weld areas - I cleaned everything up as much as I could so there was no visible seam sealer where the welds were going. That being said...there was still some squeeze out and it was close enough to impact the welds in some areas.
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IMG_7169small.mov I got the new side welded on. The welds are not perfect, but I am pretty happy with the outcome. I did use a 3M seam sealer on the lower seam - nice product but it does raise hell with the MIG process. I have a good amount of welding left to do, including cutting and hiding the top seam, but I am looking forward to having it finished over the next week or so. If anyone is contemplating a similar repair, it is not too bad. I made a checklist for how I would weld it in - worked out fine, although I did get a little movement so I would add a couple of spots to keep things in alignment through the process of welding.
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Congrats! The bolts down the side are T-24 (maybe early M29) and were used to mount large metal plates which the parachutes attached to for a planned air drop into Norway. More pictures! Patrick
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No - I think the bushings belong on both sides of that bracket ...there are 4 called for in the parts manual so I will put 2 back in - one on each side. As for the gasket - take a look at John's recent post...you can see the gasket on the hull. That is how I think it fits, but I am not 100% certain on this. Patrick
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Greetings Bryon: 1. Yes. See pictures and listing from ORD 9 with sizes.... 2. See attached pictures. My covers looks the same as yours - I am not sure exactly where this cover came from.... but I think the gasket material is attached to the hull side....
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Thank you John - I am really happy to have them. They are in super nice shape all things considered....a few small bends but no major breaks, most of the road pads are still on them too. I am counting my lucky stars for sure! Patrick
