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Gidday fellas,

With a little sanding my old wooden spokes turned out great and they are not finished yet.....
http://montythe1928chevrolet.blogspot.com/2011/09/resto-sanded-back-timber-spoked-wheels.html

Hey I have to sand it to you.

Gidday Ray,

Mate ya make a great techincal advisor but I hate to tell ya you make a lousy comic... Just Joking!!

Grant I Didnt see them wood wheels on ebay you mentioned up this side of the continent. Are they still for sale or was that a while ago?

Love them borer holes, should give you something to think about when you turn a sharp corner at 30kph. I guess that what makes it fun.

Nah, don't worry about 'em. Just pack 'em full of wood putty and sand 'em down smooth and cover 'em with Varithane..... Good as new!

With those borer holes, one thing I would worry about is the strength of the wood and the wheels as a whole. When I refinished a set of wood spoked wheels five years ago, I found a sharp wood scraper really cuts down on the amount of time required to clean up the spokes. I refinished those with exterior urethane and they still look like new. Exterior urethane has UV inhibitors in it and gives the wood a nice warm amber color.

I found a great way for scrapping wood wheels.
I have used broken glass using the sharp edge as a scrapper which works really well and cover the opposite edge with masking tape so as not to cut myself.
Beer bottles are best as the glass sharp edges dulls after a bit of scrapping so you drink the beer and break the bottle and off you go again, over and over again
Chris

sounds like a drinking mans fantasy!

Gidday Fellas,

Some more work on the timber wheels was achieved this week, have a look when you get a minute..

http://montythe1928chevrolet.blogspot.com/2011/09/resto-chair-loc-applied-to-timber.html

many thanks

Gidday fellas,

Timber spokes now all completed, bolted but together, looking and driving lovely, it's all on the blog

http://montythe1928chevrolet.blogspot.com/2011/10/resto-timber-spoke-wheels-all-completed.html

Well done Grant,

Monty has his feet back on, perfect timing to have the exhaust done while you are waiting for Bendigo Swap to come around. Not that I am putting pressure on you that is. Just got to keep these young bucks on the move.

The Red Chev needs a travelling companion you know, it can be a hard, cold and lonely road on your own.



Cheers

Ray

Gidday Ray,

Mate ya always making me spend the money! Just Joking!!

Never a dull moment in the resto shed, always something to clean, adjust, tighten, and rearrange on the old chev...

Hello Grant,

I'm wrying you from Spain, and I'm restorin a Chevy '28 exactly as the yours.
Cuold you please send me the adress where have you bought the marvelous Chair Lock, because I have some problems with the joints of the wheels.
And then, do you have the planes of the gear box. My problem is thet the 2nd slides to neutral in aceleration (I have restored it completely, because it was very damaged.

My e-mail is rtc2222@yahoo.es

Thamk's and good work,

Rafael

Gidday Rafael63,

I really cannot be of much help to you, firstly the "Chairloc" i just purchased off Ebay.com - I just typed in the product and up came a seller who I purchased it off, I don't remember his name...

And secondly the gearbox question, to be honest I am very much a novice and still learning about these cars and luckliy for me my chev that dad left me has only 10,000mile on it so when we opened the gearbox it was like new inside and only a oil change was needed...

Hoep you sort it out and I wish you the best of luck Rafael63.

Anyway, thank you very much. Best regards,

Rafael