Eric and all,
You are right about the bolts going between the boards. Below I am
attaching an old e-mail between Jim Forbes and myself a while back that
documented the rabbets and dim mentions of the wood.
From: The La Fountaine Family <georgelafo@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: TRUCK:: Bed Wood (cutting your own)
Sender: owner-oletrucks-l@teleport.com
At 12:40 PM 3/31/98 -0700, you wrote:
>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:
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>
>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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>Jim Forbes jforbes@primenet.com
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Thanks Jim,
I knew someone would come through with flying colors. Figured to be you. I
had a few of the boards measured, but I was missing a few as Grandpa had a
piece of 1/16" steel in the bed since about 1970. Seems he set something
down right through the bedwood and never patched it. The rest of those
couple of boards just rotted and fell out.
Thanks
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George La Fountaine
Grandpa's 1954 Chevy 3104
Keeping it Original!
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>Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:50:36 +0000
>Subject: Re: [oletrucks] bedwood milled rabbets
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>Hi George: thanks for your response. I thought that all the boards
>were rabbetted but one of the info pieces I read said just the end
>planks. I have looked at my brothers 57 and the wood was so old I
>couldn't tell if the planks had been sawn or were just showing the
>skid rail indentions after years of being there.
>
>So, what you are saying is that every plank is rabbetted to give a
>slight recess for the skid rails (although they should not be
>level with the wood for utility reasons)and to provide a channel for
>the wood to "lock" into the metal rails. I don't think my brothers
>wood was milled as each piece had the imprint of the rail only - not
>a defined cut.
>
>And when I install them, I fasten the bolts between the boards -
>leaving a space between each board?
>
>And, would youhappen to know the dimensions of the rabbets? How deep
>and how wide and is it different for ends boards?
>
>Thanks, I have tried to find this info but chevy places I called
>didn't know and I got frusterated not finding a source of solid info.
>So, thanks for your time.
>Eric
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