GerryW Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 Very sorry to read about your loss Thierry. My condolences to you and your family. Gerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 So sorry to hear of your loss please accept my condolences. Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco F. Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 My condolences to you and your family. Marco F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiny Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 Sorry to hear about your dad. Take care and deal with the important things at the moment, the bit before the funeral in particular is hard but you'll get through it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pouln Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Sorry to hear about your father. My condolences. Take your time. At these times family is much more important than the Delahaye. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROPELLER Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Very bad news. That's life but the hard side of life. Thinking to you. Dan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Very sorry to hear this. Take good of yourself and the family, and come back here when it feels right again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCrank Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 Good morning my friends No progress on this build since my father have passed away, but a dry fit this morning to have and idea about how it will come together: As you'll have noticed, I've put a spare wheel, instead of a wheel cover. In fact, I would like to really install it, but under the wheel cover, because this latter must be installed too, as it shows the license plate. The issue is that the wheel is too much protruding because the spare wheel compartment isn't deep enough ! Consequently, I've to think about how to proceed and, at the moment, I see 2 options: -1/ Make a fake spare wheel: I've only to decrease its thickness, cutting it by the tyre centre, and adjusting its profile in order to get a less protruding wheel -2/ Keep the spare wheel as is, and modify the compartment in order to get it deeper: and this will be very difficult to manage without running the risk to break the fragile bond between the body shell and the front fenders If anyone is seeing how to solve this second point, or has other options for my goal, I'm obviously happy to hear them ! Meanwhile, I've planned to work a bit on the steering column, so stay tuned for the next steps 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harveyb258 Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Good morning to you too, Thierry. Personally, I think your first option is probably the best. As you will know, invasive surgery of any kind poses a potential risk, so why risk it??? Besides, if the wheel thinning doesn't go to plan, it's hidden anyway... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCrank Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 9 minutes ago, harveyb258 said: Good morning to you too, Thierry. Personally, I think your first option is probably the best. As you will know, invasive surgery of any kind poses a potential risk, so why risk it??? Besides, if the wheel thinning doesn't go to plan, it's hidden anyway... Thanks a lot for this comment, BUT, the goal is to put it in its compartment, hidden by the wheel cover, AND to have the possibility to show it, as for my Talbot Lago Record, if you remember ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCrank Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 Good afternoon, Gentlemen Steering wheel and column modifications, now ! Steering wheel first : The steering wheel isn't realistic because the reliefs on the inside of the crown, which allow to handle firmly the steering wheel, are missing. I know a French modeler, still crazier than me, who add on the inside periphery of the steering wheel, lilliputian spheres to simulate those reliefs 🤪 I don't owe the needed hardware to do that, and haven't the skill nor patience to do it ! So, another method... As you know, I bought 3 kits of the Talbot Lago Record, so I've a lot of spare parts. And particularly a steering wheel, whose outer diameter il 19.08 mm, while the Delahaye's one is 18.3 mm. This difference is negligible. And it has the advantage to have those famous inside reliefs. On the other end however, the centre with four branches of this Talbot Steering wheel is frankly different from the Delahaye's one. Therefore, a bit of surgery has been necessary: Now It's time to take a little nap, see you soon, chaps 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Nice work and good to have you back Thierry! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerryW Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Very happy to see you return with your excellent work Thierry. Gerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCrank Posted June 30, 2020 Author Share Posted June 30, 2020 Good evening Gentlemen As you know, my father passed away quite 2 weeks ago. I was already very tired when he got sick, and finally I've been put off work by my doctor on June 16th, till July 5th....Not only because of my burn-out (really), but also because of chest pains. After some investigations, it appears that it would be possible that I have a coronary insufficiency !, as my 2 grand-fathers, and as all my father's siblings ! So, tomorrow morning, I'll have a coronary angiogram 🥴, for the second time (the first one, 8 years ago, was quite correct). This to explain you why I'm not very productive actually. Nevertheless, I did some self-motivation this evening, and I've went on the modifications of the steering column. Not a big job, but a funny one, for sure, with the lathe, files, and my jeweler's saw. The Heller kit provides a plastic part which is supposed to represent the steering column, and some switches, as the command for Cotal pre-selective gearbox (on the left), and on the right the commands for lights and klaxon. Hereunder, the photography of this part, and below, the real one, showed on several pictures : So, I've decided, even if finally this will be absolutely invisible, to scratch my own steering column and the switches. Let's begin by the left one, which command the Cotal gearbox: The switch, at 1/24scale, is 8.5 mm long, and, as I've planned to thread it in the steering column (which will be scratched in a 2 mm brass tube), I've added a 1 mm pin on its end So, using a 3 mm outer diameter brass rod that I put in my lathe, I've turned a 9.5 mm tiny part: - 1 mm cylindrical part 0.8 mm outer diameter, then - 7 mm slightly conically turned section - 1.5 mm cylindrical end section On this last cylindrical end, I've engraved with my jeweler saw (with a 0.3 mm wide saw blade) 2 grooves, to figure the 2 vertical sections of the "H" (which is in reality the way to follow by the switch to change the gears) The horizontal bar of the "H" while be made later on, with the milling machine, with a 0.3 mm drill bit (or several bits, if they break during the process) And actually, I've got that: Stay tuned if you like for the next steps 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 That's a very nice little part! Sorry to hear about your health troubles and all the best for tomorrow. Better keep a good eye on the old ticker! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCrank Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 Evening Chaps Good news...coronary angiogram normal 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerryW Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 11 hours ago, CrazyCrank said: Good news...coronary angiogram normal Excellent. Gerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harveyb258 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Lovely little part Thierry. What a relief that the angio was normal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCrank Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 Good morning Gentlemen Still a bit tired after my hard yesterday, but back to my bench ! And I go on the switch which commands the Cotal gearbox... You remember that I've already carved at the end of the switch the 2 vertical lines of the H (the way that follows the lever to change gear pre-selection). It remained to carve the horizontal line in between, to finalize the H, and to drill a 0.3 mm hole at the center of the H in order to place the lever rod. These 2 operations have been made with the milling machine, using, first a 0,3 mm drill bit, over 0.6 mm depth, and then, only by changing the drill bit for a 0.4 one, to drill over 0.3 mm. Obviously, to drill exactly at the center of the horizontal line of the H, I've worked under magnifying glasses with a strong lighting. My very tiny part has been place in the 3-jaw chuck of there rotary table, itself being fixed on the cross-table of the milling machine. The result, pretty good (the H is a bit over scaled), hereunder, on the left, immediatly after milling, and on the right after having accentuated the carving with Black Panel Line Accent Color: See you soon for the fabrication of the lever and its knob 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCrank Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 As I wrote a few minutes ago, lever fabrication: On the lathe another time: - starting from a 3 mm brass rod - reducing its diameter to 0.3 mm over 2 mm length - then to 0,65 mm approx. over quite 1 mm length - and finally cutting this wider end with finishing tool... to get a tiny stuff close enough to the real: The knob shape ended conical of course, but with the final drop of paint, it will be invisible ! I'll move now on the fabrication of right switches.... more complicated 🥴 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Invisible maybe, but still a very nice touch! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCrank Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 Evening chaps Sorry for being late, but I've spent my afternoon applying for my retirement pension 🤑🤥😪, an important task for me. Back to the bench this evening, I go on with my steering column... The micro lilliputian lever has been stuck temporarily on a piece of masking tape, in order not to loose it. And I've soldered the left switch on the 2 mm brass rod which I intend to use to make the new steering column. The result is pretty good imho: I MUST now make the right switch and solder it on the steering column before, either painting the whole set, either nickel plating it...I'm still wondering ! Stay tuned if you like and thanks for watching 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlambert Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 That is gorgeous! I wish I had access to a lathe and milling machine (and the skill to use them half as well as you). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCrank Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 10 minutes ago, johnlambert said: That is gorgeous! I wish I had access to a lathe and milling machine (and the skill to use them half as well as you). Thank you so much, @johnlambert for you kind words, but, frankly, I'm a beginner in using these tools....your mentors should rather be PROPELLER and Roy Vd M, for example... In French, we say:" Comme on connaît ses saints, on les honore" (untranslatable in English ) If you prefer: Let us all honour those who really deserve it ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 It's good to see you back with some inspiration at the work bench again after life's difficult moments. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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