[Healeys] Top Bows

[Michael MacLean]

I fully expect this job to be quite an exercise.
Mike M

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:01 PM Roland Wilhelmy via Healeys <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Figure that you will be using an array of shims to fit the chrome uprights
> to the windshield frame and several trial fits -- unless the gods are
> really smiling at you. The shims go between the body and the uprights
> (which are partly painted). Then there's the angle of the windshield that
> can be varied a bit. Remember perseverance furthers.
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 10:31 PM Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Well, it opens and closes easy enough.  It looks straight, but like every
>> other part used on this car, it's not original to the car.  I don't think
>> it is going to be a big problem.  Now the windscreen assembly with ALL
>> unrelated parts may be another matter.  The distance between the windscreen
>> and chrome uprights was set during the body work, but that is no guarantee
>> there will be no problem fitting it.  Couple that with the fact this will
>> be the first time I put a windscreen together for a big Healey.  When the
>> time comes, there will be questions.  Heck, I have not found a part yet
>> that did not need considerable work to make it fit.
>> Mike MacLean
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 10:05:32 PM PST, Roland Wilhelmy via
>> Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> good choice, I think.  Have you test installed the frame in your car
>> yet?  Most frames I have come in contact with are bent in ways that don't
>> cooperate with folding and unfolding or with alignment with the windshield
>> posts.  They require a bit of 'reasoning'.  Sometimes a hammer and anvil,
>> sometimes some homemade tools that look like crescent wrenches  with jaws
>> wrapped in tape.  May you be luckier.
>> -Roland
>>
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>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 2:16 PM Michael MacLean via Healeys <
>> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>
>> OK.  Dropped the top bows off to be soda blasted this morning. When I get
>> them back going to spray paint one color. A spray can of Rustoleum Smoke
>> Grey is less than 5 bucks on Amazon.
>> Mike MacLean
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 11:04 AM Curtis Arndt <cnaarndt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I agree, plus I just checked my original and it is completely gray in
>> color.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:57 PM Roland Wilhelmy <sentenac.rw at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> If I understand the question, the header rail is part of the structure of
>> the top frame and is painted the same color as the rest of it.  I've seen
>> several originals and they were all painted that way.
>> -Roland
>>
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>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:46 PM Curtis Arndt via Healeys <
>> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>
>> Not that I know of, but I'm not certain.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:13 PM Michael MacLean <
>> springer.mike51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Curt,
>>      I just got finished drilling out 6 countersunk screws that retain
>> the wood on the header rail. No way in H*ll they were going to come out
>> with a screwdriver.  The wood was rather crispy.  I have a new piece of
>> wood to replace it with.  I noticed the metal header rail was painted black
>> on the opposite side of the wood.  Correct?
>> Mike MacLean
>>
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