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07-04-2022, 09:54 PM | #101 |
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Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Finally started the windshield. I'm going with a V type roadster windshield but since I am anything but Boyd Coddington I am trying to stay away from the highly raked, chopped down look we so often see. I love the military flat windshields but I think this old jailbar wreck could use a bit of sportiness. My mind wandered to military aircraft as I love the exposed fasteners around the perimeter on a B-17 and other aircraft. My idea is the angle steel you see in the photos, a band of 3/8" key stock around the outer perimeter and a piece of matching steel strap on the inside. The 3/8 stock allows 1/4" safety glass and glass setting tape each side. 1/4-20 bolts sandwich it all together. I need to determine the height and a gentle curve across the top, two flat planes from the center post or whatever. I might bend an oak strip across and different heights to get a visual. This is a tough call getting this right. Right on a real roadster is one thing. Right on an Australian military rig is another.... Also, angled corners or radiused corners? I welcome photos. Am I opening up a can of worms?
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07-04-2022, 10:16 PM | #102 |
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07-05-2022, 12:22 AM | #103 |
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Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Interesting build. Looks like fun!
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07-05-2022, 01:08 AM | #104 |
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I think you are on the right track, 2 piece V'd windshield. Look up some of those old open cab ice cream trucks for ideas. I recently did a thread on the hamb about the price of flat safety glass has doubled and one of the guys gave a nice detailed how to on cutting safety glass. Maybe you have a neighbor with a dead motor home or step van to get some glass for free. I'll post the link tomorrow
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07-05-2022, 01:10 AM | #105 |
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Some race lexan will work too.
This might get boarder line if you start hanging rats from the mirror or welding chains or shit to things. Looks fun! . Last edited by Tinker; 07-05-2022 at 01:16 AM. |
07-05-2022, 09:33 AM | #106 |
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07-05-2022, 11:12 AM | #107 |
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Here's the thread about cutting safety glass. Towards the bottom of page 1, and into page 2 are the lessons if you want to skip the jibber jabber https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...in-up.1263756/
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08-10-2022, 11:26 PM | #108 |
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How's this going? I like it.
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08-12-2022, 09:49 AM | #109 |
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Funny you should ask. I finally put 1/4" plexiglass in the frame yesterday afternoon. That's just to get a feel for installing the safety glass I will order soon. I had the plexi left over from making covid sneeze guards for a bunch of stores here. Took it to the 'Vintage Farming Days' show at Lynden Wa last week and it was a real hit. I will get a pic of the windshield with 'glass' in it later today. I decided to go with the perimeter of small through bolts with pan heads to sandwich the glass, as I was indfluenced by the windshield of a B 17 bomber. What might be described as the postwar 'Army Surplus' look. My wife and I took her 83 year old brother and his wife on a tour of the 80 acre show grounds while she stood on the right hand running board. (In low range 4wd.)
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08-12-2022, 10:11 AM | #110 |
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No rocking chair in the back for granny ?
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08-12-2022, 12:08 PM | #111 | |
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08-12-2022, 12:36 PM | #112 |
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Gary, you sure did a beautiful job on that frame!! Who says woodworking skills aren't transferable!!!
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08-12-2022, 01:46 PM | #113 |
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Thanks all, here's a few pics from today. Next I have to install a cowl vent setup I got off a parts truck. There is literally a cutout in the firewall around the whole toyota six and the exhaust manifold is inches from my right foot. That was bearable while driving in the 40 mph wind, but now it's is hotter than the hinges of hell so I need the downdraft of the flap in front of the windshield. Then I will create a removeable doghouse and tranny hump with some dyna mat stuck under it. You might see a gray marine engine on some planks I picked up at the meet. 1 cyl, 2 stroke, 1906-1914, about 3 hp. I have a shaft, prop, stuffing box and bronze rudder and skeg that I picked up 20 years ago. Next winter a 16' flat bottomed skiff?????
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08-13-2022, 12:41 PM | #115 |
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Nice job on the windshield there bud !!.....now you won’t have to buckle the chin strap on your fuzzy hat!!!.....hope all is well....way over there.....Mark
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08-13-2022, 12:48 PM | #116 |
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Can I just add my thumbs up for the windshield frame. Suitably industrial/agricultural/military look to it. It really suits it.
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08-14-2022, 09:58 PM | #117 |
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With no brim, coupled to the summer heat, my fuzzy earflap hat makes the day way hotter and offered no protection from the summer sun. Add shrimping and crabbing in my kid's boston whaler and my poor old nose was getting a royal sunburn.....Today we spent most of the day on the road in 85 degree sunshine so my wife bought me a wide brim straw hat with a chin strap and it stayed on all day!
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08-14-2022, 11:22 PM | #118 |
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Good woman, Classy lookin dude !
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08-14-2022, 11:44 PM | #119 |
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We work pretty hard at it....... No doubt
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08-15-2022, 01:33 AM | #120 |
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