A slow start to the week. I finished spraying brown on the various parts of the cab window frame, then drilled a 4m length of half-round beading; in 100 holes, I managed to get one slightly off-centre. I decided to use this for the curved section and the short piece for the emergency door, which may allow me to omit the off-centre hole. I cut and fitted the curved rear corner piece up to the emergency door the following day, then fitted the vertical wind deflector and beading to the to the emergency door with the handle recess casting temporarily in place. I am unsure that the beading is correctly aligned at the moment though. However, I decided to proceed with the beading and drilled and started to countersink a 4m length of half-round to complete and fit on Monday.
Tag Archives: cab door
5/1/2025
Applied undercoat to the inside of the cab door, mixed from brick read with a little black in it. Made sure it was thinned well and warmed it so it would dry. Next, I continued with the cab window by starting to strip the paint from the opening glass. The next day was dry and sunny so I took the opportunity to continue prepping the wheel rims, wirebrushing the outer faces of three and giving them a coat of red oxide. It was a bit thin in places so a second coat will need to be done soon, weather forecast suggests the middle of next week. The cab window frame was not screwed together, so I removed it from the glass to make painting easier. I straightened the wonky offside window (no.4 from the fornt) as much as I could, so its slant is not so noticeable from inside as it was, although it is not perfected, so I started to fix it permanently. I finished fixing the rest of the windows, though there might need to be one or two more screws inserted to make sure the bottoms are fluch with the aluminium side panes. At the moment the weather is too cold to do anything else.
8/12/2024
Started the week in the boot, permanently installing the boot light and wiring as far as the junction box for the switch. In between I moved the spare wheel rim to the front shed for pickup to be blasted and also gave the cab door window another couple of coat of primer, flatting in between. As I had run out of p-clips, so couldn’t continue wiring, I turned my attention to the offside inner wheelarch lining, priming it ready for silvering. Next, I stripped the remaining brown paint from the cab door and prepared the woodwork for primer. I also stripped the remaining paint from the aluminium parts of the cab door. The small section of wind deflector over the offside curved window was stripped next, then primed on one side. I also gave the cab window frame a final coat of primer, ready for undecoat. Having a little time to spare, I cut back about a foot the erroneous bit of beading from behiend the emergency door and made a replacement piece. This needs to be drilled and fitted when an odd hour is available. The wheel rims were collected from Treadfirst at Shire Hill on Thursday, having had the tyres removed and disposed of, and delivered to Marcel at Terriers Farm, Thaxted, for sand blasting. I also acquired a spare tyre from eBay for £50, so that was handy. Returning to electrics, the six-way junction box for the boot turned out to have two 0BA brass grub screws missing and when replacements arrived I had to turn them down, using a slotted nut as a collett, as they were slightly too long. The last job of the week was to cut the holes in the rear waist panels for the arrow-shaped left and right indicators. The bases for these can be installed ready for wiring, once the panels have been primed and painted.
inside face of spare wheel, before blasting.