Electric Car Department

I will try to post something here this morning although it will be necessarily short as I am about to get back on site at Union to work with a contractor today.  I noticed Randy Hicks gave us a plug for the woodworkers convention.  We had the biggest attendance ever and this time cracked the international barrier with two attending form Belgium.  That would be the Belgium in Europe, not the Belgium two hundred miles north in Wisconsin.

A Bundle of Canvas

Jeff Brady and Bill Peterson have managed to extract the canvas from storage and with great effort have it hoisted up on the roof of the car.  This is just the start of the process as the next step is to unroll all of that.

The Big Rag

This is a big rag, probably over 1100 square feet of canvas.  I do not think IRM has had to recanvas a roof on a car this long to this moment in time.  So, as with everything, there is some new learning along the way.  There is a trim allowance on all the dimensions but it only makes sense to try to slide and push it around to center it on the roof.  Easier said than done.

The Clamps

We made ( I do not include me in that) a dozen new clamps of our own design to clamp to the edges of the canvas, and they were mounted, starting at the ends of the car; shown here as Jeff and Bill demonstrate.

Rolled out

The large white thing stretching into the distance is the canvas all rolled out.  If it seems a long way away, it is, and more so if you consider the work left, which includes setting about 1500 tacks.  For now we have stretched and pulled the canvas to begin the process of removing all the wrinkles and get it to lay down flat on the roof.