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My charger restoration dream car

I set passenger door window and vent window today. I did attach the vent window support bracket with the mounting screws and blue locktight. I did find a problem with the screws in place of the spot welds. After getting the window set i could not get the window to roll down all of the way. I found out that the screw heads were holding and catching on the bottom of the plastic slide in the window channel. I cut a groove in the plastic slide far enough to let the window go far enough down. Spot welds might have been the preferred method but I think that everything is OK and it is all working well now.
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I could have worked some more on my car but my brother and I also enjoy helping my dad restore a Citabria airplane. This was an airplane that had a flip over landing and was totaled. I have been enjoying learning about airplane restoration also.
We worked on painting the wings after rebuilding them and recovering them.
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Very Cool! I've always liked the citabria-airbatic. I used to work on planes myself. Are you gonna fly it when done?
 
daytona kid said:
Very Cool! I've always liked the citabria-airbatic. I used to work on planes myself. Are you gonna fly it when done?
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Yes, I am excited to fly it when it is done. I remember when I was a kid I use to complain to my dad and ask "can't we just drive somewhere like most people do instead of flying?". Of course now I can't get enough of flying.
 
showard said:
Yes, I am excited to fly it when it is done. I remember when I was a kid I use to complain to my dad and ask "can't we just drive somewhere like most people do instead of flying?". Of course now I can't get enough of flying.
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I flew a plane before I drove a car. I was 13 and got a free lesson for career day at school. Hope you post more pics of the plane as it goes together.
 
showard said:
I set passenger door window and vent window today. I did attach the vent window support bracket with the mounting screws and blue locktight. I did find a problem with the screws in place of the spot welds. After getting the window set i could not get the window to roll down all of the way. I found out that the screw heads were holding and catching on the bottom of the plastic slide in the window channel. I cut a groove in the plastic slide far enough to let the window go far enough down. Spot welds might have been the preferred method but I think that everything is OK and it is all working well now.
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I could have worked some more on my car but my brother and I also enjoy helping my dad restore a Citabria airplane. This was an airplane that had a flip over landing and was totaled. I have been enjoying learning about airplane restoration also.
We worked on painting the wings after rebuilding them and recovering them.
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Cool.. you using Randolph dope nitrate with aluminum paste as a UV barrier and smooth out the tapes and Butrate for colors?
 
showard said:
I wish I could do that for my students.
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The instructor came from a nearby airport for our career day and offered a free lesson to anyone who wanted one, I was the only kid who did. Years later I went to a&p school with that same instructor. We did our practical on a plane once owned by Charles Lindbergh. Can't remember the make of plane but it was so old the motor had exposed valve springs. ha.. Aviation was a big thing for me back when. I spent a lot of time at Mojave and Edwards afb in the 80's, the epicenter of aviation. I envy you guys with that citabria. If I had ever owned a plane it would have been something like that. Keep us posted.
 
slimt said:
Cool.. you using Randolph dope nitrate with aluminum paste as a UV barrier and smooth out the tapes and Butrate for colors?
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Sounds like you have done some of this before. I am still learning some of this stuff. We have been doing the Polly Fiber process. Yes, we are using Polly Butrate (Polly Brush, Polly Spray. and Polly Tone).
 
showard said:
Sounds like you have done some of this before. I am still learning some of this stuff. We have been doing the Polly Fiber process. Yes, we are using Polly Butrate (Polly Brush, Polly Spray. and Polly Tone).
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Yup.. spent many years rebuilding Cubs, scouts, Citabrias, Vikings.. Eagles and Pitts.. Ceconite covering ceconite tapes.. cotton around the wing and tailfeather bows. I think its changed up a bit now.. not so labor intensive..
 
I have been doing little odds and ends when I get some little time here and there.
I put the connecting rods on the door latch. Now I can open the doors from the interior.
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I got some seals put in and the door exterior cat whiskers.
I now have sore pushing thumbs but I think that all went well. I used a light mallet to carefully tap in the top door seals. I read it was easier to put them in after the door window was set so that is why I did it in that order. THEY would be easier to put in before the window but it would probably make the window installation almost impassable.
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Just for fun,
Citabria update,
My brothers and I setting the Lycoming O-320, 150 horse power engine. This engine will do well for this small aerobatic airplane.
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I cleaned a few more parts and installed them. With the days getting darker earlier it has been easier for me to come in from outside and work on my car now. Tonight I cleaned and installed the rear window headliner brackets.
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I also installed the padding, in the top of the cab, that I got from legendary a few years back.
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When I disassembled my car I took off these little clips that go on the top of the windshield opening and held the interior trim. When I reinstalled them they are now very loose. After looking at them it looks like the tabs were bent over and clamped on. When I removed the tabs bent and are now loose.
Does anyone have suggestions on how I can clamp these back on?
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Can you set the tabs with a flat punch when you bend them over?
 
showard said:
When I disassembled my car I took off these little clips that go on the top of the windshield opening and held the interior trim. When I reinstalled them they are now very loose. After looking at them it looks like the tabs were bent over and clamped on. When I removed the tabs bent and are now loose.
Does anyone have suggestions on how I can clamp these back on?
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When inserted you squeeze the outer small tabs and that sets the inner tabs...

I adjust them a bit on both sides. The backside get them to fit tight through the opening on the front side flare out more with a flat screwdriver. I think in my thread I show an example of this...I will check...
 
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