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Posted on April 12, 2015 Just keep at it.
The longest restoration project I have ever accomplished was completed about three weeks ago. All told it came in at over 18 hours. It all started with a call and a gracious request “If you can bring this all the way back, you can have it.” We will start with a photo of a pile of iron, lots and lots of rusty iron, but just clear enough to stop anybody that can identify it, well, right in their tracks. After one identifies it…the questions start to flow. The biggest is whether or not all the “big” parts are there, what is the surface like?, are all the parts actually part of this chassis? can the rest be recast or found, is the center drop there?, and a whole host more.
So before we begin what became a huge project….contributions by five guys……accessing no fewer than three donor chassis……and a HUGE does of interest, kindness, $$ and pure luck…we start with this question…Can you identify this chassis from this single picture of hay trolley rubble? Clues all over the damn place, lots of them. Barry’s book would certainly allow one to pull this off. If you can….just post YES or NO.
Give it a shot folks…you may very well come across your own rendition of these fantastic and heady Holy Grail discovery days….
Dan
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So there is only one chassis that had leaf springs and coil springs and a timber outrigger. That chassis is the Jones Patent 1893 Fletcher/Chambard Elevator.
Barry Merenoff “The Collector’s Comprehensive Resource Vol. 1” page 235 upper right hand corner.
It is a monster! I am not sure if we are going to cover this on the forum or on the new newsletter. But, here is one good shot of the finished product 18 hours later.
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