Peterbilt truck

Dutchy said:

What went wrong and mistakes

Below a few pictures of what went wrong.

After sanding there was a naturel crack in the roof:

I decided to fix it with PVAc glue:

When I was sanding the exhaust pipe and pulled too hard on the sanding paper he brook:

When I was sanding the frame on the disk sander he fell out of my hands and one edge was considerably demaged. I glued a another piece in it:

Four times a broken jamb:

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The bottom of the frame I glued in a wrong direction:

And that's why I had to replace it:

My cutter came deep in the wood and I had to replace that spot:

Fortunately, you can hardly see the repair:

The making of a facet on the front wheel rims on the disk sander wasn,t a succes. Too wobly:

Thats wy I did it on the lathe:

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Nice to know Ron that you maybe also will make a truck. Let me know when you start.

What I didn,t like

I love working with the T and J plans but there is one thing I don,t like and that is making handles, mirrors and so on. This little stuff is made out of 2,3mm (3/32") dowels. Dowells of 2,3 mm are hard to get in europe so I use 3 mm (almost 1/8"). I do the glueing with CA. Below you see a couple of picture,s from the way I try to press it together.







Is there someone who can give me an advise to do this easier. You are welcome!!

Thanks for watching.

Dutchy said:

What I didn,t like

I love working with the T and J plans but there is one thing I don,t like and that is making handles, mirrors and so on. This little stuff is made out of 2,3mm (3/32") dowels. Dowells of 2,3 mm are hard to get in europe so I use 3 mm (almost 1/8"). I do the glueing with CA. Below you see a couple of picture,s from the way I try to press it together.

Is there someone who can give me an advise to do this easier. You are welcome!!

Thanks for watching.

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I'm probably not going to be able to describe this very well, but here's a thought.

Can you make an L shaped support out of something like HDPE (http://www.amazon.com/Polyethylene-Off-White-Tolerance-D4976-245-Thickness/dp/B00CPRDN3W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425567246&sr=8-1&keywords=hdpe) for example.

Three pieces with grooves could be used. I thought of HDPE because the glue shouldn't stick to it. By arranging the pieces as shown in the diagram below you support the dowels so they don't bow under pressure, you help enforce a good corner alignment, etc.

You'd want to make more than one set - that way you can do different sized square glueups without having to make a custom support for each one.



Hope this makes sense. I don't think you'll use any fewer clamps with this setup but I think it will support the constructions better.

I've looked at making a couple of these models as well and 3/32 is an odd size of dowel to use. I've only found one place you can get it online.

Dutchy said:

What I didn,t like

I love working with the T and J plans but there is one thing I don,t like and that is making handles, mirrors and so on. This little stuff is made out of 2,3mm (3/32") dowels. Dowells of 2,3 mm are hard to get in europe so I use 3 mm (almost 1/8"). I do the glueing with CA. Below you see a couple of picture,s from the way I try to press it together.

Is there someone who can give me an advise to do this easier. You are welcome!!

Thanks for watching.

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kweinert,

A very good idea. Thank you for your clear explanation. The next time I will gif this a try.

Dutchy said:

What I didn,t like

I love working with the T and J plans but there is one thing I don,t like and that is making handles, mirrors and so on. This little stuff is made out of 2,3mm (3/32") dowels. Dowells of 2,3 mm are hard to get in europe so I use 3 mm (almost 1/8"). I do the glueing with CA. Below you see a couple of picture,s from the way I try to press it together.

Is there someone who can give me an advise to do this easier. You are welcome!!

Thanks for watching.

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Maybe not the best solution, but I would take a piece of flat board or platter, draw the square to describe the pattern and then drill a hole in each corner, lay the dowels onto the pattern where the glue will be applied to prevent the dowels from sticking to the board. This should work well with superglue.

Dutchy said:

What I didn,t like

I love working with the T and J plans but there is one thing I don,t like and that is making handles, mirrors and so on. This little stuff is made out of 2,3mm (3/32") dowels. Dowells of 2,3 mm are hard to get in europe so I use 3 mm (almost 1/8"). I do the glueing with CA. Below you see a couple of picture,s from the way I try to press it together.

Is there someone who can give me an advise to do this easier. You are welcome!!

Thanks for watching.

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Isn't it great when blokes help each other from there experiences and know-how….
Thank you to both Dutchy and "kweinert"....much appreciated….

Dutchy said:

What I didn,t like

I love working with the T and J plans but there is one thing I don,t like and that is making handles, mirrors and so on. This little stuff is made out of 2,3mm (3/32") dowels. Dowells of 2,3 mm are hard to get in europe so I use 3 mm (almost 1/8"). I do the glueing with CA. Below you see a couple of picture,s from the way I try to press it together.

Is there someone who can give me an advise to do this easier. You are welcome!!

Thanks for watching.

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Hi Jan. Here is a picture to show you my glueing solution. Please let me know if this is not clear.



I would assemble the work piece dry, tape it to the board and then drip the glue into the corners.

Dutchy said:

What I didn,t like

I love working with the T and J plans but there is one thing I don,t like and that is making handles, mirrors and so on. This little stuff is made out of 2,3mm (3/32") dowels. Dowells of 2,3 mm are hard to get in europe so I use 3 mm (almost 1/8"). I do the glueing with CA. Below you see a couple of picture,s from the way I try to press it together.

Is there someone who can give me an advise to do this easier. You are welcome!!

Thanks for watching.

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Thanks Mike,

Your drawing is clear. Next time I will try it and also let you know if it works.

Dutchy said:

What I didn,t like

I love working with the T and J plans but there is one thing I don,t like and that is making handles, mirrors and so on. This little stuff is made out of 2,3mm (3/32") dowels. Dowells of 2,3 mm are hard to get in europe so I use 3 mm (almost 1/8"). I do the glueing with CA. Below you see a couple of picture,s from the way I try to press it together.

Is there someone who can give me an advise to do this easier. You are welcome!!

Thanks for watching.

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Dutchy, I live in Australia so 3/32" is even prehistoric to us. I have found some toothpicks come very close, however, they are not consistent. What I do is everytime I place an order for a T and J plan (I buy the spare parts kit) I over stock by ordering various diameter imperial dowels. I guess I now have enough stockpiled to build about 30 models. Having said that, I use a shopmade tiny mitre box with Japanese finecut saw to cut the 3/32" dowels and with superglue on one piece and a spritz of accelerator on the other, as soon as I touch I get an instantaneous solid bond with no need to hold the pieces together or apply pressure. The downside is that if you miss alignment you have a wonky join that needs to be broken and redone after some careful sanding.

Dutchy said:

What I didn,t like

I love working with the T and J plans but there is one thing I don,t like and that is making handles, mirrors and so on. This little stuff is made out of 2,3mm (3/32") dowels. Dowells of 2,3 mm are hard to get in europe so I use 3 mm (almost 1/8"). I do the glueing with CA. Below you see a couple of picture,s from the way I try to press it together.

Is there someone who can give me an advise to do this easier. You are welcome!!

Thanks for watching.

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Thanks Alex.

Currently I do it the way you discriped. And it goes exact as you discriped. Comment is that a joint with an accelerator is less strong than one without.

Thanks again.

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This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:



As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

Dutchy said:

Preview

This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:

As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

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I've certainly enjoyed your many blog entries as these MAGNIFICENT trucks came to realization. You are certainly a very astute craftsman and patiently achieved your goal. Even through some slight mistakes which you so generously shared. Thanks for all your efforts. Now who gets to put them on the mantel?

Dutchy said:

Preview

This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:

As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

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You made two! I am looking forward to the finished pictures/presentation.

Dutchy said:

Preview

This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:

As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

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Thank you guys.

I don,t have a mantel. I hope to solve that problem.
Yes I made two. Or is,t a trick. No it,s a truck. No it are trucks.

Dutchy said:

Preview

This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:

As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

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Dutchy,

You have done a real service in posting your blog on How to Build these great trucks. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Posting on a blog is not easy when done in great detail.

This will be of benefit to truck builders for a long time.

Dutchy said:

Preview

This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:

As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

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Thanks Thomas,

The biggest difficulty for me is the language. It is more than 40 years ago I left school. I,m glad with google translate.

Dutchy said:

Preview

This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:

As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

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Well done Jan…

Dutchy said:

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This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:

As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

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Those are so nice. They bare realy great miniatures.

helluvawreck aka Charles
http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

Dutchy said:

Preview

This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:

As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

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Wow. I've been watching your build blogs. These Petes have turned out beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

Dutchy said:

Preview

This is the last blog of the Peterbilt truck. I made 200 picture,s (didn,t use them all) That means an average of slightly more than 10 picture,s per blog entry. The blog took some time but in relation to making the two logging trucks it wasn,t that much. Tomorrow I will ask my daughter to make some project pictures but below the preview:

As mentioned before tomorrow hopefully more pictures for label Project. For that reason you may also wait with comments

Thanks for watching.

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Great blog Jan, the results look wonderful. I'm looking forward to seeing the full project photos.