Progress Report -- Suspension Seat Bracket done

Tall T

Well-known Member
didn't do much to the rims today but i soaked the spot welded mid seams with good rust enamel and tomorrow I'll body hammer the outer layer flat where rust had forced a gap.
I'm going to wrap a tight band of duct tape around those seams after the insides are all painted. Is that a good idea -- just for the sake of the tubes which developed flaky rust lines from sitting on that sharpish rusty seam?

Got my seat bracket repaired as well; the whole arm was missing on thr right side. A copper pipe is a press fit in the new collar to serve as a bushing, and there'll be a copper washer between collar and mounting frame. The original brass bushings had shoulders on them. No more seat wobble. :D

As Ultradog told me . . . the seat is of a ford 2000 and taking it apart the original Ford blue became obvious.

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When I had the tires on my '46 replaced it was at a tire shop 50 miles away. The old tires were 10X28. Probably original, anyway they looked it. The welded in band found on hat rims was rusted thru in a few spots pretty bad. The shop foreman told me that they have wrapped those rims with duct tape before and that it works pretty well. Since I was 50 miles away I told him to go ahead. He used Gorilla tape instead of regular duct tape. I have used that tape many times before and I tell you what, You better be sure of what you want to do because gorilla tape is hard to remove and it does not weather like regular duct tape and is much stronger too. Ten years later and NO problems yet.
 
(quoted from post at 11:52:29 06/23/14) Did the tape thing 20 yrs ago it works great.

Did you use the regular fibrous duct tape -- which I already have a roll of -- or the Gorilla?

Thanks,
Terry
 

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