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Once all the underside repairs were done, I grooved out the corresponding areas on the top side and applied more fiberglass filler to repair the remnants of the stress cracks on top.

Here is the semifinished shaker dome after all the fiberglass repairs were done. Still needs some primer, redrilling of the rivet holes to the correct size, and epoxying of the door assembly into the opening, before the metal base plate can be riveted back on.

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And the underside:

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/S7006160.jpg

The before and after of the reconstructed missing edge:

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Nicely done Mac! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

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Hey, I gotta do something while we have this blizzard snowing us in. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

Just finished playing Stratego with the boy. He wanted that game for Christmas. It's amazing how things come full circle. I remember playing that game decades ago. I even remember the TV commercial. Turns out his 4th grade teacher taught the kids how to play the game. I had to go to four different Target stores on Christmas Eve to find it. It was sold out everywhere! I had no idea it was so trendy and back in style!

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I played that game daily during breaks in 5th grade. Its the BEST!!!!

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Primed the shaker today and epoxied in the flapper door. More sanding on the schedule for tomorrow.

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as stated before your talent is amazing.ive read your t/a thread many many times and still go back and look at it over and over.i love the blue and white.my first real car was a 1975 t/a 400 4 speed.grey with red interior.the first night i got it i loaded it up with my buddies and went cruising.after a few hours of tearing it up i thought darn this car spins the tires to easy lol i blew the clutch the first night i had it.the look on the guys face that i bought it from was priceless the next day when he saw it coming back to his shop the next day on a flatbed.
i painted the car white and painted the honeycombs white too.darn i loved that car.when my camaro gets done i may look for a t/a project.funny thing is smokey and the bandit was on yesterday and the sound of burt revving that bad boy up flying down the highway gave me goosebumps.well sorry for the long winded poor grammer read but i know you can decipher it.hats off bro

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Viperich, thanks for the good words! We still have my grandmother's 75 Firebird that she bought new from Ruckles Pontiac in Yonkers, NY in 1975. Unrestored other than a paint job 20 years ago. I let my daughter, who was named after my grandmother (her great-grandmother) take it out for her first drive when she turned 15. Neat family heirloom.

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Almost done! Got the final layer of primer on and the detail work on the seam where the trap door mounts.

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I did the preliminary mounting of the base plate ring. I carefully drilled the holes in sets of two at a time, and then secured the plate to the shaker with 13 small nuts and bolts that are the same diameter as the rivets in order to get everything fixed in place and mated up properly.

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just read your article in Hemming muscle machines Steve.. Nice work.... Very nice..