Dug this up from my own archives and thought it might help. Both edges may
be milled to allow you the ability to choose the direction of the board. My
wife drove me nuts when we put up knotty pine in our living room insuring
the grain and not pattern was aesthetically pleasing. Now that it is done I
guess..... I am glad she did (I will however, deny ever admitting this.....
;-)
Wonder what Jim Forbes is up to these days?
From: owner-oletrucks-l
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 12:40 PM
To: oletrucks-l
Subject: Re: TRUCK:: Bed Wood (cutting your own)
At 10:33 AM 3/31/98 -0800, Allen L. Jones wrote:
>Someone with the 8 board set up will need to measure their's.
Uh-oh, we're getting serious now....
I went and looked at the wood/sills from an 8 board 55-59 short stepside bed
I have in my yard. The wood is kind of old now, but still mostly all there.
The width of the planks is:
4-1/4", 7-1/4", 5", 7-1/4", 7-1/4", 5", 7-1/4", 4-1/4"
The notch shape and dimensions are approximately:
1/8" deep _________________________________
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| 1/2" |____| 1/4" deep
| 1/4"
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The edge pieces are NOT notched where they fit under the angle strips (which
are spotwelded to the bedsides).
Now, are we all confused? :) I guess you will be when my wonderful
ASCII graphics go thru the email system.
Jim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: varanus@mail.phoenix.net [SMTP:varanus@mail.phoenix.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 3:15 AM
> To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
> Subject: [oletrucks] bedwood milled rabbetts
>
> Does anyone know why there are rabbetts sawed on the edge boards?
> Both sides of the 2 edge boards are milled and I am wondering why. I
> thought that the outside might be milled to fit under the stationary
> end rails but I don't know why the inner edge would be milled.
>
> Maybe I am just not thinking hard enough.
> Eric Pesci
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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