Good morning youins.
Rich, I'm a believer in LEDs, less heat and power consumption for substantially much brighter and cleaner light.
Have a great day all!

 

Morning to all, just another day of design, plasma cut, antique, powder coat, and install elec covers.....or who knows what the priority is for today. Lol

 

Morning all,
I did nothing on the 56 yesterday. Man am I tired of one step forward two steps back on this thing.
Went to my new Doctor yesterday. I think I'm gonna like him. Nothing came outta the visit so I guess I'm gonna live until I die.
Tonight we're going to my Wife's favorite place Spiro's for dinner. Today is her birthday and we try to celebrate her life on it. My original intention was to go to Barefoot Beach in Florida and see her paver I had purchased for her on the 5th Anniversary of us seeing her off but the beach was flooded in a hurricane and everything was washed away. Maybe I'll go next year.
Sounds like it may freeze this weekend, or at least frost, so I better get the indoor plants in off the patio before I leave for My Daughters on Friday.
Rich you guys powder coat too? That's something I've always wanted to do. I took the old oven outta this house when we remodeled it and put it in the barn. I just never have gotten around to doing anything about it.
Well times a wasting so I better get after it. Whatever it is.

 

All you you are cleaning and putting up more lighting. I did put up some more interior siding and am going to paint it when I am done typing. My daughter had a few extra days and cleaned and straightened up my bathroom. I am afraid to use it. Well to the painting. I did get my frame over to the lift with all four on the ground now to put on the brake lines fill the rear end and put it all together for the I hope the last time.

 

Just got home from the "car guys' weekly Tuesday lunch." I drove the Model A but would have liked to have been able to drive Clarence. Clarence has Vintage Air heat/air/defrost. The Model A has whatever heat comes through the firewall and whatever air comes in through the windows. Besides, I can go to town on I-70 in Clarence. I don't take the A on interstates highways so it's the long way around on two-lane blacktops in it. Not only is it about 5-7 miles further the "A" cruises at 50 or a little over. Clarence cruises at whatever speed the other traffic is going. So where we went today took about 40 minutes in the A but would have taken about 15 minutes in Clarence.

Oh, well, I'll get Clarence back in February or March; or maybe April. One of the things that will be better this go-around is that the windshield will get sealed better. Whenever we drive it in the rain Sherry has to be wiping the water off of the dash constantly. Karl is going to have to remove the window to fix the body so I'm going to have him fill the channels in the windshield rubber with silicone when it puts the glass back in.

I have three 4' LED lights in my shop and some other miscellaneous old lights. I'm getting jealous of all of your LED lights you're showing.

 

Art and Atch, sounds like you guys are moving right along. One of these days you'll have to meet up with your vehicles.

 

The Spring 2026 issue of the F Series builders guide is out and some of our trucks are in it. I just ordered 2 copies, one for Sherry and one for myself. Both of our trucks are in it from the Branson F 100 show.

 

Mike,

Were you able to preview this online or did you have to go to a store and look at an actual copy?

 

Sherry received a message from one of her fb friends with a couple pictures. The pictures were only of 2 pages, I did see your panel truck or Daves pickup or Riches Bruggy on the 2 pages that were shown, but I would imagine they are all in there. I did see Alan's Earthquake truck.

 

good evening missouri.. wow i really did get behind... took me a hour to catch up.. sounds like things are moving along without me ..ha ha ha
..
atch on the 49 i built several years ago i had trouble finding any easily usable fenders.. at the time and since that truck was a complete custom job, i ordered a fairlane fiberglass frt end.. then made it a hyd. tilt and still it was less than the cost of the steel fenders.. i think i saved a couple sets of the original steel fenders i had but they needed a lot of work.. i can look for them if you cant find anything else just let me know

rich i hope your 'gout' was a bad diagnoses.. it is no fun for sure

bj sounds like everything is well up in your neck of the woods.. try to keep it that way.. ha ha ha ha

the rest of ya'll sound busy and are getting things done so keep up the good work....

 

RC,

I still have my original steel fenders. They are really bad, as are nearly every original fender in existence. When I took Clarence to the body shop 5 years or so ago I took those steel fenders and the new (at the time) Be Bop 'glass fenders. Tom (body shop owner) told me to take the steel fenders back home 'cause he wasn't messin' with them. Yeah; they are that bad. That's why it had fiberglass fenders. At that time you couldn't find new steel fenders but Fairlane, Be Bop, and Wescott were making 'glass fenders. Wescott is still making them but Fairlane and Be Bop are out of business. The man who owned Fairlane is on the Ford Barn and told me he had a passenger side 'glass fender left but no driver's side or one-piece. Wescott fenders are more expensive than new steel. Not much, but some. I'd be tempted to put a one-piece 'glass tilt front end on it but so far I haven't found anyone still making them.

Some company (I can't remember the name right now) is making steel patch panels for the three places on each side where most of the rust happens. Unfortunately those six patch panels cost just about as much as totally new fenders. And then you have to cut-n-paste onto your original steel fenders.

Several vendors are selling new steel fenders now. I imagine that they are probably all coming from the same supplier. I'll probably buy new steel fenders but everything else I have found in original Henry steel. That said, however, I might go with 'glass fenders again. They won't be rusting out like the steel did.

 

X2 I like me some LED lights and they are cheap and easy enough to get and put up in like 5 min.

BJ Yes we can powder coat, we built a giant powder coat oven, that we move with a fork lift. It is even spray foamed on the inside and has swing open doors and a roll in hang rack. And it is a cheap powder coat machine. That complete box can get 400* on the inside, if it fits, we can powder coat it. We use a kerosene work site heater put in the end of the box for out heat source.

We even have a small item quick use one for parts that fit in the regular house oven. All you need it 110 V and 80 lbs of air. We powder coat stuff on the old oven racks, turn it to 400, put it in and 15 min later, its done. We even have clear powder coat that goes on white, but bakes to clear.

 

Very Kool Rich! Sure wish we were closer. Dave2 has someone that does his for him but he's about an hour away.
Good to hear from ya RC. It's hard to keep it cool here but I'm trying. Hope all is well with you down there in God's country.
Atch sounds like Clarance is moving right along. If you find something on this side of the state ya want let me know.
Dinner was nice. Dog got a nice lamb shank bone too!
Crazywheel. I got the issue you're talking about. They don't have great pictures of most of our folks trucks but there is a shot of Earthquake.

 

We have a big one like this, but the WAY cheaper version. We use it for large items like custom made flat bed trailer front tool boxes. Like 6' or 8' tool boxes. I powder coated a 4x6 sign easy peasy. But it is all about the prep of the metal, BEFORE you powder coat it.

And this is the small set up we have. Just need 110V and a good air compressor.

 

Good morning youins, have a great day!