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| Tub ready to load to go and get blasted and primed | |
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By late March, the tub repairs were far enough on to enable the tub to go away to be blasted and primed. When I got the chassis done, I found a local company one and a half miles away, so after a big day of shuffling trailers and Jeeps around, the tub was loaded up and taken to be blasted. A few days later, the blast and prime was done, and I went back to collect it. The blasting revealed a few small areas that needed further attention with the welder, but overall, it looked good. The next step was to fill and level some of the cockled and battered skins on the sides, rear and floor. |
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| While the tub was away, I started stripping and repairing the windscreen. I had the original screen and a donar screen. Both had rotten areas, but different on each, so I was hoping that one good frame could be made from the pair. | |
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These
brackets would be salvaged from the donor screen 
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The skin on both
screens was rotten and needed replacing |
The
skin was stripped off and framework cleaned up 
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A bracing tube was
welded across the pivot arms |
A
corner brace was added to stop twisting during repairs 
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The rotten skin support
tubes were cut out |
The
tubes from the donor screen welded in 
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One glazing frame was
rotten, but parts could help the other |
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| Each screen had a different corner bracket reinforcing the corners of the glazed section. I'm guessing the early war type were the solid ones while the flat sheet type appeared later in the war to save metal. | |
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