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05-01-2017, 03:44 PM | #21 |
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Re: Floorboard question
Gunmetal blue2,
Does your Aug 29 AA have the straight cut battery hole or the angled type like later floorboards? You mentioned above it is like Iverson's, but I would sure think it would be the wider angled style. Your AA truck is near the vintage of my 29 CCPU, so that is why I am interested in what you have. I assume your floorboard is original, correct? Would you post a picture of you lower floorboard? Rusty Nelson |
05-01-2017, 04:14 PM | #22 |
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made by Murray and fits perfect
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05-01-2017, 04:17 PM | #23 |
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05-01-2017, 04:26 PM | #24 |
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Your floorboards sure look like they are made from soft wood (fir/pine/spruce) plywood from looking at the grain. Maybe I am wrong and they are made from hardwood plywood. Did you ever measure the thickness of the Murray Linker floorboards? Rusty Nelson |
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05-01-2017, 06:29 PM | #26 |
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05-01-2017, 08:45 PM | #27 |
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My original early 29 Tudor boards are the same. The boards vary in width from one end to the other end of each board. This really shows how every possible piece of wood was used by Ford.
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If not floorboards, was it dovetailed, or finger joints? |
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05-02-2017, 04:20 AM | #31 |
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Two layers of dove tail joints. It looked like they were used to create a single board and the cut to size. There was one on the body sill and another on the top side rail.
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These major boards seem to be made of up to three sub-sections, all jointed using linderman too? Its like Ford put someone to a pile of scraps and said: "Here, use the linderman machine and make planks x by y so we can use that to make floorboards. I wonder if these sub-sections have any "butt-joints"? Which might have been finger joints (although these were not common until after WWII) or butt joint end grain to end grain (a source of floorboard leak?) or use of the linderman machine (which would give a good joint but one would have to "plan out" his assembly sequence.) Looking at the actual joint in denniskliesen's pix, I would guess the dovetail to be 5/16" at the wide of the key? I have the technology to do these boards - and correct size cutters are available from freud and others. And I just happen to need the lower board for my March 29 CC pickup. Joe K
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05-02-2017, 09:53 AM | #33 |
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I'm also duplicating 3 sets of the floorboards with the dovetailed joints for my 28 Phaeton and Feb 29 Tudor. I finally found the correct router bit at a new and used tool store. It sure takes time to make them, but I like things to be as correct as possible.
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05-02-2017, 11:22 AM | #34 |
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Joe K I'll try to remember to hold a steel ruler up to the end the next time I have them out. They were a perfect fit when I put them back in. I got the welt from Bratton's and new tacks came with it in a bag which I didn't use as I felt they were too big in diameter and length and I didn't want to take a chance splitting them. So I used the old ones.
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01-11-2022, 06:41 PM | #35 |
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Dennis...I do like the pictures. The way it looks to me, for '29 pickup ,the floorboard looks identical to your pictures. I would say the way the pieces are installed are in this order:
1. two wood pieces 2. Metal plate for shifter 3. felt around clutch and brake pedals 4. Metal piece around those pedals 5. Shift Boot on top of wood 6. Then rubber mat Does that sound accurate?? Appreciate your help.. |
01-13-2022, 05:37 PM | #36 |
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I made my own out of marine board, have you considered doing it yourself?
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It’s been my understanding Ford pushed their suppliers to deliver their product in oak crates, to enable Ford to make floorboards out of it !
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01-21-2022, 08:51 PM | #38 |
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Does anyone make original style floorboards with multiple pieces of wood and steel straps ?
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01-23-2022, 10:09 AM | #39 |
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i really like this post, thanks!
i don't like plywood in early cars because it just wasn't commercially produced until the late 1920s and most manufactures used solid wood board or laminated specially for their own cars. the edge dovetailed boards are cool, i am going to make a set, someday. thanks ou
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