RE: SER1 Joey Smallwood's Land Rover

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Hi Tom,

You'll be comforted to hear that everyone who's received my 'Smallwood'
request has rolled over and gone back to sleep.  No worry from
overcrowding from that quarter :-)  (For those who don't know -- almost
everyone, I imagine -- Joey Smallwood was instrumental in getting then
Crown Colony Newfoundland to confederate with Canada in '49; he was also
the province's first Premier (1949-72)).

Regarding the top, I look forward to seeing it.  Which reminds me that I
should get on with mine.

George E Sollish	Chief Engineer		Auto Gear Equipment
			Project Manager		The Payne Lake Project

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Tom Tollefson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:00:12 -0400
> From: Tom Tollefson <tollefson@xxxxxxx.xx>
> Reply-To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> Subject: RE: SER1 Joey Smallwood's Land Rover
>
> hey George
> After a bout of reasearch,scavenging,lenghty roadtrips and some excursions
> to the fabric store I managed to get the hardtop installed BEFORE the snow
> starrts flying. here is what I did:
> lightly sanded and painted all bits,
> a trip to the wreckers with an exacto knife yielded an armload of various
> types and profiles of rubber doorseals ($7.00 for the lot). None of it is
> even remotely original looking, but it keeps the wind out. I had to
> fabricate some right angle profile to fit over the doortops to hold the slip
> on seals.
> the joint faces between roof and sides and rear box were seales with self
> adhesive foam strip by the yard.
> I removed the old, rotten rubber seal over the wind screen and made a
> fillpiece out of wood. screwed onto the existing mounting brackets. then
> some more foam strip .
> to battle the vibration noise inside the bare cab i used bituminous sound
> damping matereal from http://www.b-quiet.com/.
> it is self adhesive and works nicely, All surfaces were covered that way
> roof and sides. Then a layer of fiberfill, 1" thick from the fabric store,
> attached with spray adhesive to absorb engine and other noises.
>
> I then made a framework out of 1/8 X 1/2" aluminium flatbars to hold up a
> fabric roofliner, the matereal also from the fabric store and sewn up on my
> old footpedal powered Singer.
>  The liner is a it saggy, a matereal theat has a bit of stretch to it is
> probably better suited but it will do. I also added a dome light from
> Canadian Tire.
> Installed , it looks quiet fancy and it is rather cosy inside. The addition
> of side windows is a great bonus in the visibility department and it will
> save my canvas top from another winter outside with soggy snowloads on it.
>
> Tom T

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