I got most of it home. Will have to make one more trip! If anyone has a 29-30 phaeton and could help me with info and some pics, let me know
This will be a cool project to follow. You do like a challenge!
Quote from: Big Fins on March 31, 2022, 11:08:58 AM
This will be a cool project to follow. You do like a challenge!
Oh Yea !!
Just put my seat belt on....This is going to be a fun ride !!
JP...get the rest of it home....spread it out and see what you have and what you don't have and then we can go from there....
Mike
Now we're talking!.. Congratulations, enjoy the time with it.
Congratulations. It will be a fun ride. Harry
When you wake up hoping a thread has a new picture post for the morning coffee?
Very cool ! Sure there is a journey ahead !
I wake up an hour before anyone else so I watch youtube videos. Lots of info on chrome. making small parts, body work and paint. Some stuff I have never done before but I have not come across anything that I could not do. At least now I have more patience!
I am still sorting things out. I had a picture in my mind that I would start with the frame and just start finding parts and installing them.
Reality, is that there are a lot of parts that I do not know what they are. I got a hold of a 29 town sedan that another guy wanted the eng and wheels so I foound a good untouched chassis to show me where everything goes. right now still sorting and derusting parts with molasses. It takes time but I can get a big container and soak large things. I started putting the tub outside because it is messy but the dogs and horses drank all the liquid. now it is indoors. has a nice smell-- I still have not mastered the hydrochrome mostly because I had to learn how to do PERFECT painting on small objects. If anyone can use a real nice town sedan body, I have to figure out what to do with it.
I was curious if you purchased a dealer service manual yet? As far as molasses goes..it might be slow. An inexpensive tumbler for small parts might be in order. Harbor freight or a tumbler from the ammunition reloading community.
William
Personally, I wouldn't be advocating the use of a tumbler in conjunction with a Molasses procedure, as there could be the possibility of damage to the parts being cleaned as they rub together for weeks at a time, abrading themselves.
Bruce. >:D
I first soak in molasses, for how long it varies. I then soak in evaporust, then another dip in molasses. It seems to put a coating so it will not rust if no water gets on it. I am going to start coating them with wd 40 if they are not going to be painted. Here are some pics.mol2.jpg
the other pic
Post a picture of the car before it came apart. I know you have one. It may jog some memories?
Good idea! This was a long time ago!20220413_101642.jpg
Jack,
The side view picture of your car is spectacular.
When I was younger - way younger - I would have jumped right into your adventure.
Good luck to you - take many pictures - you may think they will not be needed or so many would be overkill.
But, I assure you when it comes to putting it all back together, you'll wish you would have take that picture at just a little better angle.
Envious- Have Fun,
Steve B.
Well, envy is not a good state. We will try hard look behind that and just be happy for you, get a glimpse of it little now and then. Thank you for sharing.
Johan
I bought a parts car that helps a lot for parts and placement of the parts I have. I wish I could find someone that could use a near perfect town sedan body. I have mastered restoring bakelite and my wife is now an expert in cleaning chrome!
"and my wife is now an expert in cleaning chrome!"
Lucky guy! I offered my wife the opportunity to become an expert at cleaning my chrome wire wheels, she declined.
...I've had the same experience but she sure can tell me how it should be done. Harry
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
She is a country girl at heart. If she tells me how to do something, I have her do it, she is a keeper----
This is so cool! I love the rake the car had in the original picture. That lowered front end really makes the two tone body split look athletic.
I am changing the frame color to black. Sandblasted it to scuff it up for painting and the powdercoating came off in lots of places--I am using por15 primer for the bare spots. that stuff really sticks!!!frame.jpg
OK went to the barn to find missing parts. Found some but found one impossible to find part. Anyone know what it is?part.jpg
Oh Boy Jack !
Keep digging around that barn....This piece, that's in great shape, sits on top of the cowl, connecting the w/s frame with that large horse collar piece just behind the hood....
Every time you find a part like this you are putting money in your pocket !
These pictures of mine are from my restoration of my 29 Roadster...
Mike
every part I need that I find is like keeping money in my pocket! If anyone needs this part let me know and I can make one before I put it on the car. the parts for open cars only I figure are almost impossible to find. I will make them from pictures if I have to. I knew it would be a challenge but the car is a bucket list kind of thing and I will finish it!
Jack,
First, you are starving us with out progress pictures, many pictures.
You know, we live vicariously through others on their restoration journey.
Now, another point - "I have mastered restoring bakelite".
Tell us more about this mastery of yours - and pics for sure.
Up to this time, I thought it was not possible as a DIY person, or some kind of mystical magical behind the curtain techniques.
So spill.
Have fun,
Steve B.
Quote from: 59-in-pieces on November 07, 2022, 10:12:02 AMJack,
First, you are starving us with out progress pictures, many pictures.
You know, we live vicariously through others on their restoration journey.
Now, another point - "I have mastered restoring bakelite".
Tell us more about this mastery of yours - and pics for sure.
Up to this time, I thought it was not possible as a DIY person, or some kind of mystical magical behind the curtain techniques.
So spill.
Have fun,
Steve B.
I'm another one of those, such as Steve, in the audience who lives vicariously through the restoration journey--- also, curating your progress must yield some sort of advantage--- here, I'm channeling a scenario where, 5 decades hence your relatives have an important piece of your personal history to discuss! So please regale us with pictures and narratives. Happy day, James
Ok here is a before, will get after when I go up to the other shopsteering wheel.jpg
Here is after the cleanup. It has been sitting around for a while and was dusty, I could have spent more time cleaning it up but I was in a hurry. first I clean with 4-0 steel wool, then 3K sandpaper, then rubbing compound. I cleaned out the painted letters with a small pick. Then wiped white paint on the letters and as they dried cleaned around them. I had some cracks, if you enlarge the pic you can see where the lever is going to go that covers it. I found some epoxy that has black pigment in it to match the bakelite.bakelite.jpg