1947 Craigslist Barn Find

Welds are lookin' good...keep up the good work.

I agree with Kansas. Those welds look exceptionally good to me.

That tool I made for the grill, I'm through with it. Even if I ever needed something like that again I spent a whole maybe 15 minutes throwing it together. To go with it you'd also need a flat piece of heavy steel OR that really heavy piece of copper shown in one of those pictures as a back up plate. A regular dolly won't do there and I've got tons of pieces of 1/4" thick copper exactly like that. Those holes in it are even useful sometimes for shrinking the little high spots. Originally electrical buss bars that I stripped the wiring and boxes out of a old dairy building.

A while back I borrowed a tool from this site to put the welt on my grill. That tool is still in circulation for members of this site and I Suggest you 'borrow' it yourself after you get your grill fixed and painted. Per this thread.
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http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/topic37548_post355654.html#355654

To help continue to pay things forward and if you're interested pm me your address and I'll send you both the tool and the heavy copper plate for absolutely free and to keep forever. I'll even pay shipping and it would be a honor to help someone else who tries hard. Believe me when I say that's a real rarity these days.

Charles Tate
(happily married and OMG 18 grandkids..... tons of their friends who visit here...and 3 great grandchildren....all who call me PapaC except for the real real little ones.......thus my name on these forums )

EDIT. look up shrinking disc's on utube. I do NOT believe they will do as good as they say on our Willys metal which is thicker than a average car and lots harder to shrink and smooth. Edit: (worked with a homemade one for a while). Results somewhat ok but much less than spectacular.

Willys metal is exceptionally hard to shrink even with torch heat and water and fast cooling. But heating it up with torch.....or worn flap wheel which tends to focus more heat on the highs where you need it the most...and then helping it along with hammer and dolly work and edit: 'compressed' air cooling can work wonders. A real shrinking hammer or shrinking dolly
while much more expensive than what comes in a regular set will help keep the metal from streaching farther out of shape. Even the pick side of a regular hammer properly used with a back up plate with a hole in it such as the copper plate I mentioned works really good as opposed to off dolly work for tiny spots when the metal is properly heated, worked, and then compressed air cooled on flatter areas.

Edited by PapaC - 30 June 2016 at 8:13pm

Wow it's coming along.
Keep it up and you'll soon have a complete tub

The little clamps used in the pics are actually for welding sheet metal together with a gap for better penetration on your welds. You can find them at Harber Freight in the welding section.  Each package has about 8 in each I think.  I have a little bit more done on the jeep now, but pics are a problem.  Gotta figure out a way to get a link set up to get to them because they are too big for the website.  Working on the steps that are on the side of the jeep and have decided to change it's name from Steve to Patches because they are everywhere now.

Well, old farts know their stuff better than I do. 

48willys wrote: Becca wrote:  I have a little bit more done on the jeep now, but pics are a problem.  Gotta figure out a way to get a link set up to get to them because they are too big for the website. Try taking the picture a little bigger than you want it, then crop a little off in your photo editor to get it down to the 2 mb so you can upload like normal . That seems to work with my Android.

Does anybody know the demensions of the fuel tank? How tall it is, width, and length would be good.

oh no! I'm way too lazy for that.  I just needed the measurements to help figure out the deninsions of the floor and hump because I didn't write all those down like I thought I did.

Got more done today.  Built the rear sub-frame for the floor of the tub yesterday at work with some donated metal from one of the students.  A 5 1/2"x49" piece of diamond plate! not quite long enough but two plates of 4"x5 1/2" plates should fix that.

Also had to replace a small strip of wheel well on the passenger side because it was badly pitted.