[Healeys] Top Bows

Michael Salter michaelsalter at gmail.com
Fri Jan 14 15:33:30 MST 2022 

That man knows of what he speaks 👍

On Fri., Jan. 14, 2022, 3:43 p.m. Perry Small via Healeys, <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Like most phases of restoring a car it requires building up the car with
> the available parts and see how things fit together, sometimes multiple
> times. Especially true for the cowl, guards, doors, side curtains and
> windshield. Then the finishing of those parts can be done. This applies to
> new parts obtained from the best suppliers. They rarely fit properly to all
> the old bits you are trying to reuse.
> Perry
>
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> On Jan 13, 2022, at 11:22 PM, Michael MacLean via Healeys <
> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> 
> 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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