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To: Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: BJ8 Rear seat back
From: "P.J.Aeckerlin" <j.aeckerlin@tiscali.nl>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:57:27 +0100
Friends,
I don't understand the way the rear seat back of my BJ8 functions. 
Please remember I bought the car in pieces, and the 3-piece rear seat 
back was in fact  a 25-piece item: most of the wood had fallen apart 
(the hinges are still okay) and the part that, according to pictures,  
should be  stationary  was held together by its plastic(?)  covering. I  
renewed both 'fold-out' wooden parts and made a new stationary part out 
of  what we call triplex over here: 3 layers of wood, glued together. 
(believe now the correct name is plywood).
Trying to put the new parts together I notice that the long piece of 
wood which reinforces the plywood part and carries the hinges does not 
have a rectangular cross section but is chamfered (has a slope). If I 
glue or screw that part to the plywood  things don't look right to me 
and I suddenly wonder whether the material of which the stationary part 
was originally made had an angle at one side.
I apologize for the childish descriptions, but English/American isn't my 
mother tongue.........
Is there anyone out there who can advise me on this? And does anyone 
know why the wood  is sloping?
If it would help I can make some pictures showing my problem.
Regards
Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
1964 BJ8 29432




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