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Is it possible to build a bombarier from scratch?

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the old trucker:

   HERE'S WHAT HE'S UP TO NOW...

   I was at his place this morning to check on his progress. He is slowed down a little as his welder is filling in between all the welds & smoothing everything out. There still is progress being made though.
   
   Here he bent a piece of angle to use as a stiffener & welded it around the inner door opening on each side.

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   Here you'll see how he did away with the outside rail stiffeners & put them inside.

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the old trucker:

  Here is a bit more of how he is doing. After fitting the engine in place he took out the engine block to bring to his place to build it.

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     Here is the Kenworth door we talked about earlier. It is chain driven. After sizing it up a little it looks like it may work. It's about 1 3/4" thick.  Shown is the right side bomber door with the left side KW inner panel. It just may work.

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   Here is an end view of the panel.

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the old trucker:

   The doors from older Internationals & Freightliners( 80's - 90's ) are about the same thickness. I would think the winding mechanisms are better on those.

                                                                                                    OT.

the old trucker:

     Well I was down to see how Glen was doing with his bomber. He was gone south for a couple of weeks. He has started a major update to his residence & now he says he is taking the machine out of his brothers garage & is storing it away till the fall. Guess we'll have to wait "n" see how it goes...       OT.

B12 man:
Look's good so far this just proves my point most of the parts can be made or salvaged and you can put together a great machine keep up the good work

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