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Wow on those wheels, Greg. They are gorgeous! 😛

I'm making do with Wifey's for now because of the low setting. If you're only making a single bend, why not slip your styrene rod inside two lengths of tubing so you can be holding close to the bend with the inner ends and your fingers are at the outer ends of the tubes? I was making bends a little while ago and the light bulb only came on now. 😯. Maybe using copper tubing reducers, you could neck it down to a small exit. Of course you risk causing a problem with the heat gun but it should have a limit switch to protect itself but maybe not. It's something to maybe experiment with. Edit: if anyone is still interested in this, there are some heat guns that come with nozzles for various tasks including one that is 1/2" diameter. They have digital readouts for wide range temperature settings and fan speed. (After this discussion I checked out Amazon and whattayaknow 🙃)

It was pretty easy, Brian. The rods are longer when I make the bends. I cut them afterward. I get the center pipe the way I want it and then tailor the others to it. The toughest part is getting the holes in a nice straight line on the block, especially with my hands. I have had success bending cold but the heat gun I used was made for paper crafting with a low setting. It's very do-able. The set I made for the tudor was done cold. This set was quite a bit easier using heat to bend. There's a bunch of short pieces when you're done but I save the scrap for other things. Thanks for your interest.

I just thought I'd throw this in here. It's not relevant but it is kinda cool. The monochrome treatment works really nice on this one. Notice the tasteful chop...I thought about doing it on my coupe but then I thought about how much work it is and how much time I spent making stupid carb linkage and I totally relented. I did get the engine painted and assembled. Not crazy about the wire boots. I couldn't find the black wire I used for the tudor. It's way out of scale but I felt like it has become standard so who am I to buck the system? Anyway, this is as much as I got done this weekend. The engine is now identified. It's a '49 Mercury! I borrowed Wifey's heat gun and made these headers. Her heat gun has two heat settings. I used low to bend the 1/16" rod. I used .015 sheet scrap to make flanges. Teeny, tiny flanges. 😓. I'm not sure how many I lost in the process but I finally managed to fasten two of them to the pipes and I remembered to drill and pin the headers before installing them. This time 😔. Thanks for stopping in if you did. If you didn't, well,......you probably won't 😉

YAAAAAAAAAY 🥳

And I thought I was nuts.....🤣 Edit: I just watched the video. It brought me back to some fun days removing sludge from some y-blocks back in the day. Gotta love those.

This is Virginia, Lenny, Walmart is waaay worse than that 😉 If this keeps up, I'm going to need to use my rescue inhaler 🤪

I have to share this. I visited my local supermarket this afternoon and I'm picking up some Caesar salad kits and in my peripheral vision there's a young girl, and not an attractive one,, wearing gray sweats with the bottoms cut down....waaaaaaay down. Her cheek bottoms are protruding beyond the limits of her pant bottoms by at least three inches. Now I'm an old guy with a somewhat conservative mentality. I was, regrettably, disgusted but, okay, entertained 🤣. Am I okay? Seriously. 🤨

I know we can't get political but they need to do something about that A$$ HOLE TRUDEAU 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣 Oh, okay, I know..... sorry 💩 Edit: I can't wait till this hits bottom 🙂

Didn't get much done today. But I did paint the flattie '49 Mercury turquois. And I have some paint choices to ponder. Opinions are welcome as usual. Sectioning is not on the table, Bil. ☹....sorry. This is my Boyd's stash. I can't decide. Help me!

Oh lord, that's amazing. 😮..................😂

Clean as a bottom? What? Is that some weird Canadian saying? 🤣....oh boy....😂

No, Lenny, I'm okay on the top, but I'd love to hear the story about what that's all about 🥴.

Exactly! What do you think about a total shave? Zero chrome? A worthy experiment? Lets put it to a vote! And while we're at it, chop or no chop? 😀

There will be no Dumbo on this trunk lid, Bil. I promise. The solenoids are on order from J. C. Whitney. 🤣😂😄. I removed the bumpers, Bil, so it's already a custom! 🥴

Today I thought I would try my hand at carb linkage but it's not finished so....you'll have to wait on that. Anyway, I decided to go bumperless. I filled the bracket slots with styrene and shaped. I also figured I should install door solenoids. 😉 And I trimmed the front wheels a bit more to get the tires a little more clearance. And then I couldn't resist another mock-up. Shown is the modified "big fat AMT axle" in place. You can see the added cross member necessary to mount the "custom" radiator in its new location. This swap necessitated quite a lot of mods to make it work... but it does work. I'm glad I didn't just box it all up. I'm having fun with it. 🙂 This is as much clearance as I dare. If I cut the axle sockets any shorter, the wheels will fall off during subsequent mock-ups and we don't want that 🤨. The '39 Deluxe and '40 Standard Fords look much better, I'm my humble opinion, without a bumper in the front, especially with a nice nose dive. I drilled small holes to mark locations of tail lights and the gas cap. The door hinges are a hindrance to sanding and polishing and I am considering their removal. Some customizers convert to hidden hinges so I can point to that to justify my elimination of those awful things. WDYT?

Yeah, me too. 🤔

I was just adjusting that track and I remembered that I had not answered that question. The answer is I don't know. I did not compare them but I find almost all kits seem to have that issue to some degree. For this bash, I have cut the sockets down on the front wheels to get them in more and I'm still not happy with it so I'll try to bring them in a bit more. More on this later, Len.

Hey. Who knows? Looks like a good thing. I can't do it, it's just too small.

Yeah, I should apply for a patent 😉 Oh, no, they are Amazon delivery drivers carrying boxes in front of them and balancing packages on their heads. Nope again, Len. I just shoot from the hip on stuff like this but I might add some cooling fins like the Eddie Meyer unit I suppose I could have bought some 3D resin thing but in the end who really cares? It will probably end up in a land-fill in New Jersey in a few years.

Be patient, Bil. You're still young. Maybe you could find some way to kill brain cells like I have. 🤪 In other news.... The modified floor My method of assuring a true-ish axle alignment. Then I remove the middle and apply reinforcing CA. Those ugly slots were filled with scrap styrene. The knee shock actuators were removed and tube shocks will be adapted These flatheads were glue-bomb acquisitions. Spent the better part of a day struggling with getting one acceptable. Still have a way to go on that. I think of these two as "the girls". Found 'em hiding in my "small chrome engine stuff cache" The new Offy heads, resin pre-drilled distributor, and custom aluminum radiator. The stock radiator is too wide to fit in a farther forward location. Here's the girls "in situ." The hood closes, I checked. 😌 That's a custom cast aluminum high rise manifold from "Jimbo's Hot Rod Engineering Works". Whomever glued that generator in place used so much glue that it melted the bottom of it. Less is more, children. Today I should work on a hood hinge. Maybe. But those holes have got to be closed up. 😖

It's nice to know I'm not alone in my memory loss. This is why they don't let me drink. 🥴

Yeah... it's like "gee, I don't remember doing this" 🤔.....😅

Lenny's pink elephant 👇 🤣😉😅🤪😂😊😄😁

Yeah I'm guilty of that too. I miss important stuff when I'm focused on some particular thing. I'm sure we all do that to some degree. In fact, 😩 I did it today!