1950's Wagemaker Wolverine wooden boat restoration ...

[sphelps]

First of the epoxy primer is on most of the pieces . The main frame is just some rusto rattle can primer to keep it from rusting while I got the other pieces ready . I’ll sand that down and use the epoxy . Now I need to bondo some dents, prep the wheels and axle and prime everything..

 

[oldrem]

Looking good!

 

[kcassells]

Sam,
I need a boat pic fix...………………...

 

[mickyryan]

he like that Kc always holdin out on us!
almost as bad as ned was with his woody!

 

[kcassells]

Yup!

 

[sphelps]

It’s like Heinz ketchup.. Ya have to wait for it ...
Hopefully gunna mix some safety yellow this weekend ... Making a trip to a local sandblasting place to get them to blast the last few parts to the trailer . The rims ,coil springs and axle .. Hopefully he’s reasonable.. It will sure save me some time ..

 

[sphelps]

Yellow rims with white wall tires or white rims wth Blackwall ?

 

[kcassells]

Gonna find hubcaps?

 

[Scott Danforth]

red rims with white-walls

 

[kcassells]

Here's a link for hubs
https://hubcapmike.com/vintage-hubcaps/vintage-trailer-hub-caps/

 

[sphelps]

Hub caps should be here any day now . They are the stainless ones and not the chrome .
Scott painting them red did cross my mind .
I have seen some tee nee’s with red accents but not the rims . Not sure how that would look though .
on the trailer I have originally they were white ...
kind of leaning in my head toward yellow .idk

 

[sphelps]

The Admiral has reviewed and made her decision.
Yellow with white walls it is .... :hail:

 

[oldrem]

Cannot argue with the admiral - if you want peace :laugh:

 

[Scott Danforth]

The Admiral has reviewed and made her decision.
Yellow with white walls it is .... :hail:

there you go.

 

[sphelps]

RNow I need to decide if I want to throw down the cake for the new stainless pins or try and find a replacement for 1 pin that’d missing .. I got the old ones removed .. A bit tricky till I watched the only couple videos out there on removing them .
Only thing I did different was to wrap a tie wire tight around the pin so I could easily pull them back out of the frame ..
I dropped the first one in there and it took a little time to get it back out ..:lol:

I also have the fenders and winch post ready to reprime ..

 

[Scott Danforth]

find a machine shop and have some new pins made

 

[sphelps]

Yeah these are the ones on fleebay . https://www.ebay.com/p/Tee-Nee-Boat.../873799077?iid=140902279359&rt=nc#UserReviews
might be cheaper to get someone locally to make .. I’ll have to also figure out a cover for it . There made from some fairly hard plastic

 

[Scott Danforth]

Its about $4 worth of stainless, and about $15 worth of labor for each pin

 

[sphelps]

So for what they are asking on eBay it’s not that bad a price .. Or is 15 bucks labor too high for what it is ?

 

[zool]

So for what they are asking on eBay it’s not that bad a price .. Or is 15 bucks labor too high for what it is ?

The one review on ebay for those pins wasnt that flattering sam

"Nicely made, but didn't work well

Pins seemed to be well machined. They were difficult to start into the frame. when I got one to go they wouldn't stay where they belonged. Then with a little movement, would fall inside with the roller. I made three work. Ended up using the old ones to finish."