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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #570 on: April 17, 2020, 09:38:31 PM »
Nice updates on the old Buick....labor of love....

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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #571 on: April 17, 2020, 10:32:58 PM »
Nice 26 Buick! Don’t see those models to much!
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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #572 on: April 18, 2020, 07:59:56 AM »
Great looking roadster John!  Thanks for posting the updated pics.

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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #573 on: April 18, 2020, 08:30:50 AM »
I really like the color combo. Not yours anymore, but you still have to be proud.
Tighten it up til it strips, then back it off a quarter turn

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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #574 on: April 18, 2020, 01:25:52 PM »
Thanks guys. I didn't have a part in the redo, but I will pass on your kudos to the new owner.
And yes I am really proud that he left most of my design as is.  He did make it his tho, and I like it.

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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #575 on: April 18, 2020, 02:00:47 PM »
I liked it better before. It's nice but not as nice.  :)
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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #576 on: April 18, 2020, 02:52:38 PM »
I liked it better before. It's nice but not as nice.  :)

Me to, I think it had more personality or attitude.

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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #577 on: April 18, 2020, 09:36:05 PM »
It didn't need a loud paint job to get attention. I think two tone paint is for cars with tops and not some of them. of them.
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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #578 on: April 20, 2020, 07:30:16 AM »
I loved it with the silver what the heck??

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Re: 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #579 on: April 21, 2020, 05:14:26 PM »
You have to make it "your own".
Tighten it up til it strips, then back it off a quarter turn

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Re: Build thread 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #580 on: April 21, 2020, 05:35:24 PM »
This might be "just me"...but I noticed that if I had to bend any round or square tubing...positioning the "seam" on the inside of the arc made the bend easier.  The seam is the dark line on the tubing...that would be the thickest wall area...just seems to make sense keeping it inside the curve means it won't have to be stretched as compared to being on the outside  circumference?

EDNY,  The seam should be 90 deg to the former or arc. If it is on the inside it has to compress, on the outside it has to stretch. With square tube you usually have to "collapse" the inside anyway as the material has now where to go. (ie, it wont shrink. Cheers, Greg

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Re: Build thread 1926 buick roadster
« Reply #581 on: April 21, 2020, 07:02:20 PM »
This might be "just me"...but I noticed that if I had to bend any round or square tubing...positioning the "seam" on the inside of the arc made the bend easier.  The seam is the dark line on the tubing...that would be the thickest wall area...just seems to make sense keeping it inside the curve means it won't have to be stretched as compared to being on the outside  circumference?

EDNY,  The seam should be 90 deg to the former or arc. If it is on the inside it has to compress, on the outside it has to stretch. With square tube you usually have to "collapse" the inside anyway as the material has now where to go. (ie, it wont shrink. Cheers, Greg


After I made that post I was watching a car program on TV and they side to put the weld seam on the side(s) when forming.
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