31 Cowl differences

Nobody ever noticed before, now we'll look at every 30-31 in a different light. Bob
Craig Lewis said:
BINGO....thanks woody.
That indented area (left of the silver screw) has a raised dimple in the centre. Does everyone see it??
The dimple seems to appear on 31 cowls...yet not on 30 cowls.

I knocked out the my dimples :eek: and could sure use more closeup pix like this one so I can put em back.
Thanks again for anyone that can help.
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Tom Wesenberg said:
Now look what you started Craig! Now we'll all have to start taking pills for OCD.:D
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Prozac pills won't help...especially once we start finding details that aren't noted in the Judging standards (yet) ;)

I'm now working on a clamping device to put my dimples back in.
Still need more pictures of that spot if you guys can help.
 
How will we know it is a factory dimple and not a gob of Bondo you forgot to sand smooth?
Craig Lewis said:
Prozac pills won't help...especially once we start finding details that aren't noted in the Judging standards (yet) ;)

I'm now working on a clamping device to put my dimples back in.
Still need more pictures of that spot if you guys can help.
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A31Woody said:
PHEW! Only took on camera flash and a flashlight to get the shadows filled in!
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Woody, is PHEW! one step above or below WHEW!??
Maybe Otto Klingendorfer was puttin' in the gas tank valves on the assembly line, and he put the ding on with his ball pein hammer, as his trademark! Where was the car assembled? My S.F. car didn't have the ding, or the dong, or whatever you call one that goes OUT instead of IN!
Now I WORRY about that DING that I fixed on the lower front of my R/R fender WAS supposed to be there, or if I should have made a matching one on th L/R fender???????:eek: Bill W.
 
BILL WILLIAMSON said:
Woody, is PHEW! one step above or below WHEW!??
Maybe Otto Klingendorfer was puttin' in the gas tank valves on the assembly line, and he put the ding on with his ball pein hammer, as his trademark! Where was the car assembled? My S.F. car didn't have the ding, or the dong, or whatever you call one that goes OUT instead of IN!
Now I WORRY about that DING that I fixed on the lower front of my R/R fender WAS supposed to be there, or if I should have made a matching one on th L/R fender???????:eek: Bill W.
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Ha ha, maybe this was Otto.
Speakin of glasses...wonder why it was perfectly safe to spray molten lead in the good ol days :confused:
 

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Roadster62 said:
How will we know it is a factory dimple and not a gob of Bondo you forgot to sand smooth?
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ha! I'm pretty sure my car was restored pre-bondo. :)

Now get this... I don't have one on the driver's side. Not sure if I'll be able to sleep tonight... What OCD?
 
Well here's what I ended up with. Not sure what that clamp was designed for, but the Model A lug nut makes it all legit (at least in my little world) :rolleyes:
Thanks again to the handfull of guys who took time to help out.
 

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Craig, How do you plan on replicating the original spot welds on the cowl sides to firewall? I'm sort of in the same spot, new Brookville sides to attack to an original assembled firewall/sub rail. Bob
 
Roadster62 said:
Craig, How do you plan on replicating the original spot welds on the cowl sides to firewall? I'm sort of in the same spot, new Brookville sides to attack to an original assembled firewall/sub rail. Bob
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The welding steps aren't quite finalized. I only had tig & mig on hand till quite recently when a fine gentleman lent me his Lenco 3000 spot welder.
It packs a punch of 2600 amps through 2 hand held electrodes with 1/8 copper tips....first time I tried it felt like russian roulette!
This should do it except I have a problem ...that nobody wants to stand inside my cowl and hold the other electrode :eek:

Option 2 (the strongest weld) would be mig through 1/4" holes, grind smooth and add cosmetic spots just to the front with the big spot welder.

My spot weld area was originally broken loose by some big ape with an air chisel or prybar it looked like. The firewall was unrepairable. It's taken dozens of hours to metal work this area straight and still a bit to go cuz you don't bondo over spot welds...nor spot weld over bondo.
 

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New spot welds or Rosette welds through inside holes may be the way to go, that way you'd have the original spots on the outside. With all the Roadster lower patch work being done on several projects i trust you checked your cowl,door and quarter panel lowere beads. Turns out many differ. If you need any dimentions my cowl is on the work table. Bob .... PS, If we lived closed I'd help with the inside spot welding.
 
Roadster62 said:
New spot welds or Rosette welds through inside holes may be the way to go, that way you'd have the original spots on the outside. With all the Roadster lower patch work being done on several projects i trust you checked your cowl,door and quarter panel lowere beads. Turns out many differ. If you need any dimentions my cowl is on the work table. Bob .... PS, If we lived closed I'd help with the inside spot welding.
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What were you doing 9 days ago?
see post 1, 6, 7, 10, 12, 17, 19 & 24.
 
I hope you use that spot welder and post photos of the results. With some practice I would think you could respot the original welds and things would look as new. Bob
 
Back to page one and the original question: could the dimple be there because someone put the rivet in backwards? This photo shows my firewall and the detached original side panel. Head is on the inside waffel pattern rivet set is on the outside. If the head was on the outside it would be higher and require a dimple. Bob
 

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My car originally had the dimpled indents but didn't come with any inside cowl lamp braces. Also the dimple has a relatively large, soft rounded shape ....much bigger than a rivet head.

My own theorys so far are...
1) since the indent was a fairy deep draw in the stamping process, maybe that part of the die gradually wore down at it's point and changed the shape.
This could explain why I'm only finding the dimpled indents on some 1931 cowls and not 1930 when the dies were still sharp??
2) another theory is they made the indents shallower to allow for a bucking bar to be inserted so that the cowl arm brace could be riveted in at a later date?
Nothing to base this on...just guessing.
 
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