sábado, 30 de julho de 2022

TRAVELING COCHE COMPETITION

 Hello to all my friends, thank you for your interest in following this compilation of the traveling coach.

Today I'm going to show you some more progress in this work, from the doors, seats and steps to access the inside of the box.

The opening of the boxes to fix the hinges of the doors, is a job that requires a little work, skill and patience, because they are not symmetrical, as you can see due to the curvature of the box, the lower hinge is much more protruding than the upper one. , so they have to be straightened with a square, so the doors when they open stay in a horizontal position.

Some more photos of this work.


Construction of the seats, in cedar wood. the back seat is a little wider than the front.


Vista lateral e ensaio dos assentos.

Test of the access brackets to the inside of the box.

Load test for suspension spring tuning.
Fixing the hinges.


Window test.
Completed hinge fixing


sábado, 23 de julho de 2022

TRAVELING COCHE COMPETITION

 Some more progress in the compilation of the Traveling Coche, now back to the body of the coach, The doors, windows and some metallic parts like the coat of arms. access steps to the interior, hinges, and beginning of the seats and backrests of the interior, some photos of this work.


As you can see the doors were detached from the side panels and the housings were opened for the windows to go up and down, in the original plan, the windows are fixed, they don't work, but the logic is they work, despite more work.



Construction of the window frames, they are beech wood, 3 mm thick, with a 1 mm slot to fit the glass,
Construction of the window frames, they are beech wood, 3 mm thick, with a 1 mm slot to fit the glass, the glass is 1 mm thick acrylic.
Construction of window frames.

Construction of the coat of arms of the doors, they are in metal of 1 mm of thickness, to be exactly the same, I welded two sheets of metal that later are cut and separated with heat.

Cut arms, now with the torch the two parts are heated and the two parts are separated, which will then be filed and polished.
The steps leading to the interior are made in the same way as the coats of arms.

After cleaning and polishing, the skates are folded into shape and welded.
Construction of the door hinges.
This was the program of the contest between the years 1934 and 1935, very interesting, how schoolboys managed to build this coach.

Beginning of the construction of the seats and backrests of the interior, made of cedar wood.


quinta-feira, 14 de julho de 2022

TRAVELING COACH COMPETITION

 Some more progress in the construction of the Traveling Coche.

Today, the lower part of the coach was practically completed, with the completion of the driver's seat, plus some photos of this compilation.

As you can see the seat upholstery was made with what's left of the previous Napoleonic State Coach. I really like this velvet color, very pretty and pleasant to work with.