Wiscasset Exhibit

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

This doesn't fit into what Ed mentioned but the round stock for the car arrived last Friday.  The steel is for the truss rods, cross trusses, and journal box bolts.  Did anyone get photos of it when it was out front?

[Ed Lecuyer]

FYI. I have completed the grant application with the photos I had. There is a limit of 5 photos. I included two historic photos of the car at the creamery wharf, a drawing of the car, a photo of the trucks, and a photo of our friends from the Naugy helping with the construction.

Thanks for everyone's help.

[Dave Crow]

Stewart, I took a photo of the bar stock when it was out front and right where I was drilling the body bolster steel.

As a note to everyone, we're trying to obtain, hopefully for free, two sets of cam-lock door lock hardware for the side doors.  The cam-lock hardware is what you see on tractor trailer doors and shipping containers.  However, we need older-style hardware; not the modern, flat-stock door handles, but the ones where the handle looks like a forging or a casting.  Something like this:



Also, the door hinges appear to be tee-hinge strap hinges, with the visible door portion having a length about 10 inches.  If anyone has a lead on 12 of them, please let us know!

Thanks,
Dave Crow

[Mike Fox]

A thought. Try a truck junkyard. Some of the older trailers may have just what you are looking for. In the Augusta area there is a company called White & Bradstreet that may have what you are looking for, or be able to find something similar nationally.

[Dave Crow]

Mike,

I'm hoping to get more people involved in the project by having folks check around for items like the cam door locks.  If anyone - especially the folks that are in New England (for ease of transport to the museum) - find cam door locks or the door hinges, please post here on the Forum so that everyone else knows the parts are available.

At the same time, I will check some of the junk/salvage yards down here as well; as long as I don't have to take the whole rest of the truck body/container just to get the door locks!

Dave

[Mike Fox]

I can do some searching around here. Limited for the next month or so but I will keep my eyes open.

[Mike the Choochoo Nix]

Friend of mine is scraping a 1950's era trailer, I'll see what it has on it. The shafts would be too big to ship but the handle and latches should fit in a flat rate express box.
Mike Nix

[Dave Crow]

Mike Nix, that would be great if the hardware - without the long sections of pipe - could be shipped to the museum.  Don't forget we need the keepers that mount to the trailer body itself.  I can always sand blast the parts to make it easier to operate and to be able to attach new pipe.
Thanks,
Dave Crow