woodiewagon46
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RAS, beautiful job. PM me, I have an original Model A stationwagon side mirror bracket and it's yours for free if you need it.
Station wagon build/questions
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RAS
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Again thank-you all for the kind words. I didn’t think about it until reading TonyM’s post, I guess this is really my second Model A woody wagon. My first was a few decades ago, it was the Woody Wagon hot rod kit. It came complete with surfboards and a small block chevy, maybe an AMT kit.
Woodiewagon46, thank you for your offer, I pm’d you. If you don’t see it let me know I’ll try again.
I went to the spring Marion County Fairground Swap Meet Saturday, or the swap meet/mud bog as it was called down there. I found some pieces to get back to making door hinges. As most of you probably know the wagons use a continuous piano hinge. So I’m reworking 30/31 upper windshield hinges into my door hinges.
The trick is flattening the mounting part of the windshield hinge without any damage to the actual hinge. I also weld a ¼” strip to the windshield hinge to give the door more mounting surface. I cut from 3/16” plate the door hinge portion that fastens to the cowl, then I spot weld what was the upper windshield rail to the 3/16” plate. I included a couple of pictures from an original wagon door hinge to compare to my fabricated door hinge.
Woodiewagon46, thank you for your offer, I pm’d you. If you don’t see it let me know I’ll try again.
I went to the spring Marion County Fairground Swap Meet Saturday, or the swap meet/mud bog as it was called down there. I found some pieces to get back to making door hinges. As most of you probably know the wagons use a continuous piano hinge. So I’m reworking 30/31 upper windshield hinges into my door hinges.
The trick is flattening the mounting part of the windshield hinge without any damage to the actual hinge. I also weld a ¼” strip to the windshield hinge to give the door more mounting surface. I cut from 3/16” plate the door hinge portion that fastens to the cowl, then I spot weld what was the upper windshield rail to the 3/16” plate. I included a couple of pictures from an original wagon door hinge to compare to my fabricated door hinge.
RAS
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I’m sorry that it’s been awhile since my last post but yard work has been cutting into my garage time.
First off thank-you to woodiewagon46 for his generous offer of a mirror bracket, it will probably be the only original wagon piece on my project.
I tried my 4-door front seat idea but after seeing the pictures 31 Woody posted for me and finding a 28/29 seat back picture on the internet I decided I needed to try to make my own seat if I wanted to look like an original wagon seat.
So I’ve put a picture of my failed 4-door seat idea and then what I’m working on now. Another picture I found of the 28/29 seat back shows a horizontal brace on the cushion side of the seat back that I still have to make. I don’t have a tig welder so I just take my time welding sheet metal with my oxy/acet torch. I’m building a woody wagon but between the cowl patch panels, door hinges, various corner brackets, tailgate hardware, and now a seat back I make a lot of trips to my steel supplier.
First off thank-you to woodiewagon46 for his generous offer of a mirror bracket, it will probably be the only original wagon piece on my project.
I tried my 4-door front seat idea but after seeing the pictures 31 Woody posted for me and finding a 28/29 seat back picture on the internet I decided I needed to try to make my own seat if I wanted to look like an original wagon seat.
So I’ve put a picture of my failed 4-door seat idea and then what I’m working on now. Another picture I found of the 28/29 seat back shows a horizontal brace on the cushion side of the seat back that I still have to make. I don’t have a tig welder so I just take my time welding sheet metal with my oxy/acet torch. I’m building a woody wagon but between the cowl patch panels, door hinges, various corner brackets, tailgate hardware, and now a seat back I make a lot of trips to my steel supplier.
Bruce
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I'm building a Station Wagon right now, too. Mine was a wagon to begin with and it has a body that was crafted in New York. Putting it together has been a guess-and-by-golly adventure because there is not a set of "plans" available at the Station Wagon special interest group ... or elsewhere that I can find. There are lots of drawings in Woody Wagon's Newsletter that have been published over the years. Back issues of the news letters are for sale.
I've been fortunate to see several "Henry" winners. Each one is beautiful. But they each have some interesting departures from the others. All this is to send another pic of the seat/door jamb angle bracket. These are swapped side-to-side from the previous example. That puts the side of the angle the seat bolts to about an inch and a half to the rear. My tummy demands every fraction of inch of comfort, so this arrangement is BEST (IMHO). Again, the car around the bracket won MARC's highest award ...
I've been fortunate to see several "Henry" winners. Each one is beautiful. But they each have some interesting departures from the others. All this is to send another pic of the seat/door jamb angle bracket. These are swapped side-to-side from the previous example. That puts the side of the angle the seat bolts to about an inch and a half to the rear. My tummy demands every fraction of inch of comfort, so this arrangement is BEST (IMHO). Again, the car around the bracket won MARC's highest award ...
