Well I can't top Bill's picture and not too sure how to follow it. Not a lot to do today and I thought it was going to slip into tomorrow without getting anything done but I had thought about the glove box and how
gearbox had posted a reply to his rebuild about folding one up. I started by dumping everything out of 26/4597 glove box and trying to measure it in the S2. After 10 minutes of writing it all down, I just laughed and said what the hell am I doing and undid the 3 screws that held the box in and brought it inside to trace out on some rosin paper that I have a 3 foot wide roll of. I pulled of a piece about 3 feet long and started tracing one side and rolling to box onto the next side. After I had finished I was all the way to the other side of the rosin paper and cut out the lines and made the folds. A bit of tape later I was into the trial assembly mode. Tomorrow I'll see if I can find some heavy cardboard or ? I might even have to
buy something, eek. Did I use that three letter word?
Gary
I folded it up as I would for a RHD box, must remember to make the folds the opposite way!
Christmas Day Morning
I was killing some time this morning and I have yet to find some decent card stock, I did have some double corrugated cardboard so I figured I could waste some time and cut out a prototype and see if I was close on the pattern. I messed it up on one of the folds but it is close so I think I can move forward and maybe even pay some money for something that is close to the stock needed to make one or two. I will update the pattern a bit and see if I can get something a bit closer to original. I will probably do another prototype or two with some thinner stock but this piece was handy so I used what I had.
Well the first proto was close so I made a second out of single thickness corrugated cardboard. I think its getting close enough to get some real stock to try out.
Gary
Thursday December 27th 01:30 pm
Had some time this morning to play with the glove box. I found some material that I thought would work at Lowe's. I was going to hunt around and try to get something that was better for the job but that meant looking and calling around and more than likely getting nothing done. What I got was a 12 inch sonotube for poring concrete piers. I gave $8 for the paper tube and thought it was worth it to come home with something. This material was .100 inch thick including the quick tube yellow paper covering, the stock material for the glove box was .090 inch so I called it a match. I traced my pattern on the tube and cut it out with the skill saw and jig saw, I flattened out over night underneath Beau's new birthday cinder block. when I pulled it out it still was on the rounded side but I didn't let that bother me. The Lotus box was riveted and that looked like it was not going to be the way that I was going to do it as I didn't have the rivets or the bucking tool, or the patients to try and hold the box in place while I bucked the rivets. I found some 10 x 32 screws and lock nuts and tried them, if they didn't work, we'll it didn't cost me anything. I lined up the ends and clamped them together. Then I drilled a hole and put the screw and nuts on. anyway, I ended up with a "rounded box" and now I have some clamps and plywood to try and straighten out the top and bottom. A bit of black enamel and I'll have to make some angle brackets and put it in...
Gary
Saturday December 29th 9:00 am
Well it is not a thing of beauty, but thats ok with me. It will do what is needed and that is to hold a bunch of stuff that will not be used much. I guess it's better than the hole that was there before I started.
Gary