Alright Mike thanks, I'll take your testimonial, put my hands on one of those jigs and jump in.

Regards, PK

maritimeclassics; Thanks for the detailed description. Believe it or not I envisioned something like that (if I understand it at first blush) My dread seems to have come from the idea of Laying on my back drilling straight up thru-out the old stringers and new frames...x32 Need to read with more co...

57 chris

I'm trying to make this clear and I appreciate your input. Hope this helps,

p

steve bunda

Thanks as always, late, will digest.

PK

It is very easy to replace stringers , after boat is leveled steve Not sure I follow, The boats Is upside down and on it's back Cutting the profile isn't really a big concern to me. In my boat there are bronze bolts that are fit through holes which are drilled all the way from one edge of the strin...

Thanks all for the reply's and great input. I know replacing the stringers is the probably the right thing to do but it seems so daunting and I have an incredible facility for screwing up alignments even after a life time of fiddling & fabricating wood, metal, plastics, etc.I rather not have to Klug...

I have '35 cc 19' RA. It's upsilon-down, all new bottom frames (and top tide planking) I'd like to avoid replacing the stringers by strategically sistering on supplemental stringers. The stringers are in fair to very good shape. No cracks and minimal warping but, they're 76 years old. I really don't...

Impact driver sounds great. Where were you guy back when....I'd just ad, for what it's worth; tune it to low torque and low impact.

Regards, PK

I Wound up with 2, need just one. Could be your lucky day (grin)

Regards, PK

That's Ironic. I have one of the slant pole versions I welded and re-drilled it to be a 901. They happen to be completely identical except the small accommodation inside for the angled pole.

Regard, PK

Ken.

No it's not. With my education on these lights is complete I can say confidently that one is not a 901. Not even sure it's a C.C. I do happen to have a correct one that needs chrome if interested.

Regards, PK

My experiences with performance sports car fuel systems are several fold: -Ethanol is very corrosive as evidenced by evansjw44 & 63 constellation experiences, It dissolves whatever it can find. -Ethanol is added for emissions reasons but also often to give a false octane reading. It’s kind of octane...

Donj Id’ like to put some pics up, It you would sure keep me from loosing them (7 hard drives in the last 2 years!). Ya know what the say, once you put it on the net it’s there forever (somewhere) Got my gauge stickers back today and they’re quite good. Only at a couple feet would someone really in ...

PK, I was sleeping!! It's been posted at http://www.finewoodboats.com/Gauges.htm all along no idea of the origin. Jim! I see your pics! Quit snoozing! I just sent my artwork out for printing! Oh well thanks much, much anyway. I can see I’m pretty darn close (amazing) My text on the temp gauge looks...

Weird, PK, how these things get shuffled in cyberspace.. Ya, it was pretty cyber strange. I swear your post is still in my private mal box with Bills return address on it! As for variation in gauges, I suspect they just grabbed a gauge from the bin... Ya,I think so to, Nothin to sweat to much then ...

All, Ya I figured I’d have to submerge them in about 40 gallons of CPES to observe any benefit at all. Now’s the time to just replace the stringers as I am currently replacing all the bottom frame members. I’ve allready re-planked and finished the whole topside, deck and sides. This is the home run ...

This the one you are looking for? Jim, You bet! your the man. Where were you when I was “nose to the screen” squinting at all my grainy dash pics? Somehow though I was remarkably close (see my “wire-frame” old art-work overlaid on your image and, see my reworked final image below.) This is plenty g...

Thanks donJ Geez Don, your post here wound up a as a PM in my mail box from Bill Blaser. I've been respom\nding to him on this subject all weekend. Man I could have used you! ... no s w at the bottom the oil and temp only say that on them. I woumd up looking a tons of tachs and they seem to be allov...

These are my stab at guage artwork for my pre-war CC RA and some post war tachs I have laying around. I had only two direct scans, one workable pic, and lots of fuzzy dash pics. With a lot of guessing and cross referencing, I think they look pretty convincing. I still don’t know for sure some of wha...

Hi Al, I get you and can’t disagree. I also think Michael is blasting his Corvette across some lake as I type. So let’s hijack this thread (kidding Michael). Though I use CPES everywhere and its fun watching it soak in while imagining it rejuvenating all the little fibers. It’s kind ‘a one of those ...

Hello Al, It penetrates into the wood and restores the fibers but doesn't build up on the surface (like a varnish). The fact that it is a good primer is a secondary benefit of the product, not the initial intent. I’ve been following the evolution (I.E. definition & claims) of CPES for years as my pr...

I have a ‘35 C.C.19' custom the gauges of which I am restoring. The gauge faces are pretty deteriorated and I am looking for 1 good, high resolution, close up photo of a clean, correct, gauge panel with clearly legible typography for all 4 gauges to replicate(gauge condition does not have to be imma...

Thanks for the information and nice job.

I know replacing them is probably the right thing to do. This is the home stretch though after the complete top side and man I’m tired of woodworking.

Thanks again and thanks the technical designation for the Doug fir.

Regards,

PK

Thanks Don and Jim, That’s it, a 901 then, demarcation clear as a bell inside (when right side up). It is in really nice condition, almost NOS like inside (out side has the usual pinhole pitting). (It goes up on eBay today as it’s surplus as I’m doing complete bottom replacement. (Buzz members get r...

Hello all,

Silly little question. I’m sure this is a CC bow light (not sure which models but) Inside it has in raised lettering, either a “106” or “901” depending how you look at it.

Which is it please?

Thanks much, PK

P.S. Flag staff fits vertically

Thanks Mark, That’s pretty, much what I wanted to hear. The port stringer does have a warp, but it’s where I wouldn’t think it would effect anything. It begins under the front seat and ends at maybe 3 degrees at the bow end. I doubt it’s anything recent (the warp) its 75 yrs old, but unless it indic...

(35 C.C. 19. Custom runabout) I am trying to determine if, with boat bottom removed, I should replace my Douglas fir engine stringers (I really don’t feel like it but…) and, if so, with what? -Are there any tricks to determining the health of the origional wood (tools, techniques, testing equipment ...

Hi, I wanna say it's a 1952 m47s? it been a little while. It appeared to me that all the majaor castigs were pretty much identical to the proper 1935 model Crown. My intent is, where it dos'nt conpromise performance or durability, to refit it with period ancillary stuff. Right now it'ts had all it's...

William Wright Thats a good point. and one I share. I Had some pictures of a 19', '35 C.C. with rare factory ford v8 power. I was using it as reference for my crown powered '35 19' custom because it look well done from what I knew and was the only '35 rig I could find. It was pointed out that it had...

Nice bit of sleuthing Reginald. It would seem there must have been quite a relationship between Chrysler and C.C.

Regards, PK

BTW: Still working on part number. Bit under the weather.

Hello, all Didn’t think I was posting anything so provocative, but I guess I touched a nerve. I hope everyone got aaaa goodreply It would say.if nothing else, Chris craft and Chrysler were partnered up pretty good. Starting in the ‘30’s through the 50’s there was a definite cross-over. I don’t know...