Whittled up an Idea

[Johndeere3720]

Yeah! the gauges will set a little "far-out!" man! :laughing:

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[JB4310]

Nice wood working. :thumbsup:

" Whittled up an Idea"

You're in good company
That's how samuel Colt came up with the first revolving cylinder gun.

There's a statue in a Hartford park that bears his name, of him carving the finishing touches on a wooden revolver cylinder, while he was serving in the merchant marines at the young age of 16. Said he got the idea from observing the ships wheel. The rest is quite a remarkable history to say the least.

JB

 

[rmully]

If your glass job gets a little bumpy you can always apply a little bondo and smooth things up. Your project looks great and very "inventive" !!

 

[deepNdirt]

I decided not to go with the fiberglass & resin, was too costly and would had been a very time consuming procedure, so I used what I already had on my shelf ( Bondo-glass) which has fiberglass in it and works a bit easier, although have to be fast as it tends to set up very quickly, I used a thing coating in only the area's that needed, after sanding I coated it with polyurethane and lightly sand it again, then painted it, It should be dry by now and I plan to install today, I'll get pictures post up later,

 

[Johndeere3720]

I decided not to go with the fiberglass & resin, was too costly and would had been a very time consuming procedure, so I used what I already had on my shelf ( Bondo-glass) which has fiberglass in it and works a bit easier, although have to be fast as it tends to set up very quickly, I used a thing coating in only the area's that needed, after sanding I coated it with polyurethane and lightly sand it again, then painted it, It should be dry by now and I plan to install today, I'll get pictures post up later,

Looking forward to seeing your finished product. it will definitely show your craftsmanship whenever you get on your tractor. :thumbsup:

 

[deepNdirt]

O-K folks! here's the done deal as usual there is a couple of things wished had done differently, Like leaving the tach gauge on the right side instead of having relocated it to the center hole. it was rather a task when having to get enough cable pulled through to make the reconnection,I wound up disconnecting it from the engine to pull enough slack,... I might also mention I had to relocated the regulator box that resides directly under the dash where I installed the tach, the regulator happen to be in the way of a straight shot to the tach gauge,the cable would not flex enough, It surely wasn't worth the effort to locate it in the center, the rest of it went easy as planed, I went ahead and installed a toggle on the right side to have later when ever need to add something, the left side I simply used the old lights and will not have use for the old idiot temp light,
I had to give the rest of the tractor a wax job so the gauge console didn't stand out so badly,

 

[winston1]

Nice job! :thumbsup:

 

[Johndeere3720]

That is awesome! When do they get on the market? :laughing::thumbsup:

 

[ninefinger]

Now you have the BD model. Nice work.

 

[deepNdirt]

I think they would be better built from metal, could add a little more design to them by bending metal, would be a matter of cutting some templates,
cut out from 1 pc. and make some bends, and cap of the ends, if I had to go over I might would have built it something more like this,