evening folks , well now that we have christmas well and truly over and done with ive had chance to gather momentum for my next project . ive been looking forward to this project for a quite a while now and have wanted to own one of these machines for a long time but got frustrated that non seem to surface . so the next option is to build one and like previous projects ive been very fortunate to pick up the required items like glasses /reeldeck/rom cart /spare cab etc to make one up .so here goes another thread and i hope you like what you see . . ive only just made a start stripping the donor cab so not too many pics to start with and it will take a few months so bare with me .
- here is what the machine will look like !
the donor cab . its a foreign overseas machine but externally identical . i few tweaks will be made internally but more of that as the project progresses .
these pics show what what i picked up from a scrapped ss machine . they had been with a showman and had been stored outside .
the corner edges of the frames on my donor cab are quite good so will use these along with the rest of the frames. the reason i mention them is that barcrest at this time didnt paint the frames of thier machines . the corners were either cromed or zinct and this quite often peels off so will have them looked at in the next few weeks .
the general state of the donor cab is very good
showing the donor cab stripped out ready for restoration .
just a slight chip out of the inner door base area which will be repaired fairly easily .
the first job will be to rebuild the base which im getting very use to by now ! as can be seen the back has been looked at by the previous owner but the side s still need to be done !
i will put new foortread rubber on the kick step .
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