bed wood installation
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the bed wood for my 49 came with 5 or 6 1" x 1" cross strips that are to go between the cross members and the wood floor. do you have to use the cross strips they seem like a pain. if so how do you attach to bed wood to the cross member, it would seem like a minor miracle if the pre punched holes in my strips line up with the cross members. i am thinking of just using them as spacers and attaching them to the wood with short brass screws.
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Hi Dale, me again - maybe I can confuse this too
The 48 box was set up with metal cross members (4 including the rollpan). The bed wood set directly on top of the metal x-members. It is necessary to carve the outside planks to go around the molded side and hump in the bedframe over the axle.
Your bed may have been replaced earlier and modified to avoid some of these problems by raising the floor 1".
Incidently - related to the other post - from '48 until mid-'50 the boxes had sheetmetal floors on top of a wood subfloor.
The 48 box was set up with metal cross members (4 including the rollpan). The bed wood set directly on top of the metal x-members. It is necessary to carve the outside planks to go around the molded side and hump in the bedframe over the axle.
Your bed may have been replaced earlier and modified to avoid some of these problems by raising the floor 1".
Incidently - related to the other post - from '48 until mid-'50 the boxes had sheetmetal floors on top of a wood subfloor.
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thanks Tim
so the 1 bys were not part of the org. installation. they add them to the kit to avoid some of the problems. if i use the 1 bys i don't have to worry about the bed sides because it raises it enough to be in the straight area.
so the 1 bys were not part of the org. installation. they add them to the kit to avoid some of the problems. if i use the 1 bys i don't have to worry about the bed sides because it raises it enough to be in the straight area.
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