1928 FORD MODEL A SEDAN- belly pan.

Very cool!
Any ideas of paint for this bit?
maybe:



Looking very cool, as usual.
Great to see excellent engineering in a project.
I like seeing bits in projects that you know would take a long time to make the components but you do not really see the the effort.
Please keep it up, it is great to see real craftmen at work.
john.

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already had them jokes when my mate came in and saw it just after id made it!
i like seeing the same too. i get a real kick from seeing something made from a bare material, not a part modifed to fit. plus, its so much cheaper and always fits better too!

last bit will be up in a min once the last lot of pics have uploaded......

WOW! amazing fab dude! jaw on the floor!

That looks ace, nicely thought out idea.



Hope you're planning on banding the wires they look a bit narrow in this pic might ruin the look

Stunning work as always

thanks for all the praise everyone! its nice to get some recognition for the amount of work i out into something like this. its not always for my own vehicles either, a few of you know of another car ive been working on that will be rolling soon

i spent most of today chasing round local bearing suppliers, and bolt/fixings places, all of which were fecking useless. you know its not gunna be good when the supposed expert/specialist doesnt even know how to measure a UNF thread!!!
i ended up telling all of them to stick their overpriced/incorrect/special order only rose joints and taps and dies, and have managed to source everything myself online from true specialist suppliers, ones who know what they're talking about, and sell better quality stuff, for less than half the price.

so when postie turns up with it all next week ile be able to complete my front and rear suspensions, and steering. I'm looking forward to it

Coming together nicely Dez, and as everyone else has said, superb craftsmanship as always Can't wait to try making stuff in my new workshop!

I got some deliveries-
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across the back is various sets of UNF taps. I got 5/8"-18, 11/16"-18, 11/16"-18 LH, and 3/4"-16, and they come in sets of first, second and plug, at very cheap prices. theres a 11/16"18 LH die nut there too, and the whole lot came to £36 delivered, from RDGtools, via ebay. they apparently have a very good rep in the model engineering world, so I thought they were worth a try.
only thing they didnt have was a 11/16 die nut, normal thread- suprising as they had the LH one!
so if anyone has one I can lend (i need to cut one thread 2" long), or buy, let me know.

the 5/8" taps are for the two rose joints you can see there, as they are 5/8" ones. these are really high quality items, far better than anything I can get locally, or ive seen elsewhere, for a good price too (these were just under a tenner each), which I get from mcGill motorsports via ebay.
heres their blurb-



the left and right had set of 11/16" taps and dies are for my trackrod and draglink, as ford used this thread for their trackrod ends. I need to tap a thread on each end of the new tie rod once its cut to length(once ive finished making my steering arms....), and then for my drag link ive cut in half a f100 dogbone draglink, with I will then thread both halves and then thread a draglink tube for them to screw into. obviously one end of each will be lh and the other rh thread so they're adjustable on the car.

the 3/4" tap is for my centre rear suspension pivot, on my Y-3 link design. I decided to try the taps out on the bit of tube ive had saved for this (a old motorbike steerer tube, the only thing I could find the right size with a thick enough wall!), as a nice touch the taps are engraved with what size drill you need to use for each one, so its nigh on impossible to dash it up) so I wizzed a 11/16" drill through it then tapped it, first, second and plug. even though the taps don't look high quality (about the same as machine mart stuff, not high end brand name like FEW or goliath), they cut a nice clean thread, with no chipping, so I'm happy. I got quoted ridiculous prices (up to £80 for s single tap!!) from local suppliers, so decided to try this cheap online stuff, and it appears to have paid off. I doubt theyd last long under repeated strenuous use, but for a one off job like this, they're fine.
tapping-
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and assembled (yes I know I need to add a halfnut)-
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and the last thing in the pic, is a set of rubber boots for all 3 rose joints. to protect my investment so far

to go along with all these taps, ive got an order of stuff coming over form the states, curtesy of riley automotive. this comprises of a couple of rebuild kits for the funny but cool as fook ford draglink end thingies, new boots for them, plus a couple of ball-screws to allow me to use them on my hand fabbed steering arms. plus ive got the F100 bearing adapters for my front brakes from them too.

as well as that, ive spent half the national debt of mozambique on 2 sets of headlights, one pair of 10" chrome plain glass marchals, to see if I prefer them on it, and ive got another set of pre-war lucas catseye lens items. pics of those when they turn up!

so all in all, an expensive month......

put it this way- ive seen 2 sets of lucas 8" catseye lens headlights for sale in the past 5 years- and ive got both of em