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Well that turned out to be a half-baked plan.🙄 I couldn’t get seats to fit up into place with those floor pan sections attached to the body. So I re-attached the lower sections to the frame. The rearward part will still work as is.

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I have been working on mounting the dash and a few blocks of evergreen glued to the dash and firewall give it a positive mounting location. I scratch built a tilt steering column and mounted it to the dash. 
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Also made patterns for the windows. That’s all for now.🙂

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Thanks for the compliments fellas!🙂 The kit has some very nice steering components, but they won’t work with my modifications. Plus, they are meant to be glued in place I think, and I want pose-able steering. So I made a new steering arm from evergreen and a new tie rod and drag link from .047” brass rod. 

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32 minutes ago, NOBLNG said:

Thanks for the compliments fellas!🙂 The kit has some very nice steering components, but they won’t work with my modifications. Plus, they are meant to be glued in place I think, and I want pose-able steering. So I made a new steering arm from evergreen and a new tie rod and drag link from .047” brass rod. 

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Gosh this all looks very familiar. Very similar to what I am doing on my 32 Phaeton 

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49 minutes ago, Chris B said:

Gosh this all looks very familiar. Very similar to what I am doing on my 32 Phaeton 

Your Phaeton is coming along nicely.I like the steering box you made.👍 I didn’t bother with one since very little is visible inside this one.

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6 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

Your Phaeton is coming along nicely.I like the steering box you made.👍 I didn’t bother with one since very little is visible inside this one.

Thanks

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8 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

... The kit has some very nice steering components, but they won’t work with my modifications. Plus, they are meant to be glued in place I think, and I want pose-able steering. 

IIRC from several hundred years ago, the pins on the steering parts were originally s'posed to be melted flat on the ends with a hot knife or screwdriver blade...after assembly, of course. 

Anyway, she's still coming along nicely.  :D

 

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1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

IIRC from several hundred years ago, the pins on the steering parts were originally s'posed to be melted flat on the ends with a hot knife or screwdriver blade...after assembly, of course. 

Anyway, she's still coming along nicely.  :D

 

Well it’s been a few weeks since I looked at the instructions,🥴 but the actual pins don’t seem long enough to get melted? That does seem to ring a bell though….maybe I read it on someone’s build thread?🧐 Now that I look out of curiosity, the only reference to joining the steering components is this picture.

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Nice fabrication work on the steering linkage Greg!

If they don't have what you want, build it yourself!

David G.

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Just catching up with this one. Lovely craftsmanship, Greg. And it's still one of the coolest hot rods I've seen in a long time. I really dig the whole vibe.

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Added a rudimentary interior by making a pattern out of tape. I was hoping to do it in one piece, but the body taper would not allow keeping the pleats vertical. 
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So I chopped it into three sections and made them from Evergreen V-Groove sheet. Then made some simple handles and window cranks.

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I glued them in with thin CA and topped it off with some .040” half round. Nothing spectacular, but better than nothing or what the kit provides.

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I fixed the missing tabs on the radius arms last night, and today I built some shock absorbers and mounts, and mounted the headlights.

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Man that's looking good Greg.  We are getting hammered with thunder snow, sleet, and freezing rain.  Temperatures are going to be below freezing with a few days in the single digits.  I won't be able to get back to the bench for another week to 10 days.  

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