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Working on stenciling on my jeep hood. Should look nice when finished!
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Are you using those old interlocking brass stencils?Working on stenciling on my jeep hood. Should look nice when finished!
I wasn't part of the motor pool, I was a carpenter (Seabees); and we used them for identification on material crates and that kind of thing.Ahab, how did you get the brass stencils to work on rounded surface such as the hood of an M38A1? Of did you only stencil on the flats?
We used to set the brass stencil up, then trace it onto a somewhat stiff folder/cardboard/oil board stock, then cut the letters out with a razor blade and then apply to truck, some times needing an extra hand or two or masking tape to hold an end. You still had issues if the roundness was extreme but most of the areas were not that bad.Ahab, how did you get the brass stencils to work on rounded surface such as the hood of an M38A1? Of did you only stencil on the flats?
Yes and also who you were, I did hundreds of vehicles over my career and I never used vinyl, I always preferred the painted look. Still do, but instead of a spray can, I think I'll try a new way I read here on SS is to use a micro roller, might help with over spray! Although, if we didn't have some over spray, it just didn't look right some how!!Depends on your time frame, but mid Vietnam they started using vinyl stick on for the numbers and lettering. I have a 53 M38A1, but it has some of the VN upgrades such as vinyl seats and vinyl lettering on the hood. The stars were all painted on.
Yeah, the paint build-up would start to mess up their use, and nobody ahead of you would EVER clean them up, but you could drop them all into a closed container of gasoline and then scrape them clean (+/-) the next day with a slotted-screwdriver. Slotted-screwdriver not designed for that of course, but s*** it: if it works, go ahead; we we're Seabees.Not the way that the brass stencils were suppose to be used I guess, but I hated cleaning them if someone put paint all over them and then let them dry!
Congrats!I re-bent my twisted frame now the frame shop can fix the rear.
I live in a house like that:After fighting with the previous owner's conversion to 12V, I bit the bullet and purchased the items needed to convert back to 24V. Serious setback in money and time, but on the whole, I would never been satisfied with 12V and knowing that was not original. That and I can't understand a thing the previous owner did electrically.
Yep, that's about the best way to have a fire and lose all of you material possessions - better left to professionals.I live in a house like that:
- the previous owner was a retiree who apparently decided overnight that he was qualified as a Contractor
His remodeling "innovations" everywhere are a total nightmare.
Burning down this clown house would be the best solution to all the funky construction in it:Yep, that's about the best way to have a fire and lose all of you material possessions - better left to professionals.
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