Going quite a ways back, there have been a couple of posts where the metal structure for the seat was rebuilt and there was another where the seat bases and the hinge brackets were chromed. I decided to try to plug weld the chrome brackets onto the metal structure of the seat backs. I was worried about the chrome burning off where it would be exposed on the hinge brackets. Well, it worked great. Nothing even blued on the exposed chrome.
So the first couple of shots are of the completely reassembled seat backs and the last two are of the seat backs positioned with the seat bases. I need a couple of springs, some chrome Whitworth nuts and washers for the hinge bolts, and these will be ready for upholstery. A bright floral pattern I think.
Other news: A party was recently held where the two original horns were rebuilt. Amazingly, I don't think that these had been worked on before so they they weren't messed up. Party was again poorly attended but at the end of the celebration the noise makers actually made noise. They were mostly dirty and the points were fried. I filed them a little and adjusted them according to the shop manual and hooked them up to the battery of the John Deere and they worked. Now to finish cleaning and painting.
. No stainless except the dzus fastener brackets will be exposed. 
There is one rather sizeable casting flaw in the number six ( that's the one in engine front or the far right in the top shot) right at the top of the manifold. If you try to weld this to fill it, the porcelain generally won't stick to the repair. The porcelain actually goes on pretty thick and covered a fair amount of the problem. I didn't want to risk cutting too much away at that point and Tom agreed that I shouldn't go any further. You can't see it here but the inside is also coated. If I had a car I could put these on.
. Concours in Westport, CT. on Sunday. It was a really good show. If any of you want to view a bunch of snapshots of a bunch of really fine cars, you can see them on the web album- Dee Welding
photos 2011-8-18-Fairfield Concours. This is the first time I've tried this so let me know if it doesn't work.
On the last blog entry, I 
posted a little about the horns. These are images of the disassembled horns. First shot is of the support bracket for the right side horn- it's pretty well destroyed from a hit that the car took to that side front that collected the front fender and horn. Second shot is of some remade pieces that will be used to reconstruct the bracket. After that are images of the horns in various states of clean up and repaint. The last two shots show the main covers still in primer. Those were painted with wrinkle finish black paint today and should come pretty close to matching the original finish. It takes a long time for that paint to dry and properly wrinkle up so I'll show that in the next entry about the horns. 
Going quite a ways back, there have been a couple of posts where the metal structure for the seat was rebuilt and there was another where the seat bases and the hinge brackets were chromed. I decided to try to plug weld the chrome brackets onto the metal structure of the seat backs. I was worried about the chrome burning off where it would be exposed on the hinge brackets. Well, it worked great. Nothing even blued on the exposed chrome. 
