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Re: restoration record keeping

To: naffy@netins.net, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: restoration record keeping
From: ZinkZ10C@aol.com
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:52:53 EST
In a message dated 00-11-29 22:09:28 EST, naffy@netins.net writes:

<< I have taken some photo's but sometimes find that I get going taking things
 off/apart without makeing adequate records.......ideas??
        Gary, Frances Nafziger
        Wellman, Iowa 
        naffy@netins.net >>


The following is non Brit car specific.

A resto trick:

Don't take _everything_ apart then start fixing things!  Cars come apart so 
easily.   Do the car in stages and (with a few exceptions) restore the first 
part you remove.  Try to take the car apart the way the factory put it 
together.  For example on many cars, the entire dash is built up before it is 
installed in a car. It usually takes few bolts to remove it.

For example, remove the wheels/tires restore these first or at least blast 
and primer them.  You could keep the wheels resto until last as you will need 
junky wheels when building/painting the car. ( This is one of those 
exceptions.)

Next, remove the front braking system and resto in it's entirety.  Box, tag 
and put them on the shelf.  Do the same with the rear brakes ( some of this 
might have to wait until the rear axle is rebuilt )

Remove the front suspension and restore. and so on.

The reason for this method is simple, when the project is looking less and 
less like a car, and more like a pile of parts, your intrest _will_ diminish. 
 Having shelves full of restored parts ready to bolt on will keep you going.

After the car is painted, all you have to do is pick parts off the shelf.  In 
essence, puting the car back together the way the factory did it, in big 
assemblies.

Harold

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