It was set at three at one time..
Not sure now...

I was trying to put up 3, but no joy.
A few nights ago I could put up to 10 pics at a time.
Seems I can't do any now

Jason

I will find out and get back to you.

Richard

so as I was saying

NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY !

even old rotten bits of wood, you'll never know when you need them, although I did have an idea that I'd be using them for this....



then it was decision time as to what to do with the cut of the wood, I done this, not knowing how things would turn out.





Found a piece that I thought was a close match





It was ready to break in two, you can see some of the crack but it ends next to my finger - just to show how fragile thing s are. then it get stuck to some other old wood that would make the thickness the same and trimmed to match the new cut wood.

More to follow tomorrow.

I just wanted to post up a few more pics of the effort tht it takes to kep an OG interior OG these days.

and also to thank Richard to get the pics working again.

More tomorrow with explanations and trials and tribulations of making the best of the things I have to hand and the decisions along the way.

Jason

Keep plying the trade...you little wood worm...
Satisfying work though is it knot...
Veneerly there...
The panels score?
10
I will defiantly be glued to this thread...I am not board at all...

You must be a very patient man, a lot of time consuming work going on there. But it will be worth it to keep og, well done

type21f wrote:Keep plying the trade...you little wood worm...
Satisfying work though is it knot...
Veneerly there...
The panels score?
10
I will defiantly be glued to this thread...I am not board at all...

Oh Graham - you legend

dustysplit wrote:You must be a very patient man, a lot of time consuming work going on there. But it will be worth it to keep og, well done

Yes it is time consuming, I don't know what wrong with me LOL
But yes, I feel it is worth keeping her OG and I'll only have one chance at doing it so I'll do the best I can. I've watch so many threads on here where people have brought their rusty wrecks back to live (Rusty and MarkP's Gerry to mention just a couple), most of the threads have include doing tricky jobs that will never be seen, but of course it's important to do the jobs right regardless - so goes it for the interior.

so , back to the pics - we all love pics don't





ok so I'll tell you what going on here.

I knew that having the repair flexi behind the bottom would make the wood thicker so I wanted the ridge behind the mechanism part on the van but also it shouldn't have a gap on the top. the think was to remove the flexi behind the top part of the corner section. so to make life easier i would glue this part.
masking tape turns out to be just about the right with.







check that you've got the flexi glued in the right place using my template.

so with it fitted there was a gap on the top half , but the join was behind the mechanism on the van , even so I wasn't happy with the result so i removed the lower half of the flexiply and got what I was after



it was getting late so I decided to call it a night but before I closed up shop I had a look at some of the old pieces of wood and started thinking about the next piece to be restored, it was kind of like a jigsaw.

trying to find out what pieces of veneer went on top of the other veneer and then where they would fit on the van

you can see in this pic how it fit together but where it goes I can't remember maybe as I put the interior back together I'll remember



This piece goes behind the fridge and is screwed to the bulk head. You can clearly see where most of it has been behind the fridge and what has been exposed to the elements. I was thinking to cut off the dark exposed piece and reusing the unexposed veneer but the bottom inch of the piece has completely rotted away.
I did find a piece of veneer that would be big enough but it , at 1st glance , look completely useless. but I gave it a but of a gentle sand and it came out alright so I'll be make a new panel and gluing this over the top.

and here is another piece of broken interior that will need mending.



I know where this piece goes tho

fixing this is going to be a PINA

but it will be done.

I'll just let the pics do the talking for this update, I'm sure you can work it all out.

Some dedication right there.

Very rewarding...work...
G

onwards with the interior resto today.

I started with the rear corner piece I was working on, I was pleased with the curve on the panel but I couldn't glue it all in one piece as it was tricky to get the grain of the wood all lined up at the same time as using contact adhesive it's a 1 go affair so splitting the panel into 4 made the job a lot easier.



there was also a bit that was peeling on the bottom so I glued that aswell, these panels really are trying to just falling apart.




chuffed to bits really


then it was the side panel that goes behind the fridge.