- 1. [Healeys] Wood spacer strips (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Lyons" <jlyons4@rochester.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:27:11 -0400
- I am installing new wooden spacer strips under the seats. Were the original wooden strips installed "raw" or were they treated at the factory with some varnish to help preserve them ? The new strips
- /html/healeys/2008-09/msg00433.html (7,211 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Healeys] Wood spacer strips (score: 1)
- Author: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:19:09 -0400
- Hi Jim, They seemed to originally have been treated with some sort of dark oily preservative. I always seal them with a good quality amber shellac. Rich Chrysler _____________________________________
- /html/healeys/2008-09/msg00436.html (8,297 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Healeys] Wood spacer strips (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed's Shop" <shop@justbrits.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:56:02 -0600
- <<They seemed to originally have been treated with some sort of dark oily Perhaps Creosote like used on utility poles for decades, Rich??? If you touched a "new" pole your hand would almost stick to
- /html/healeys/2008-09/msg00439.html (6,879 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Healeys] Wood spacer strips (score: 1)
- Author: "Mirek and Gwen Sharp" <m.g.sharp@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:15:34 -0400
- I suspect the wood strips were oiled, not finished in a hard finish like a varnish. Probably they used linseed oil - whatever was left over after the cricket bats were oiled! I recently installed ne
- /html/healeys/2008-09/msg00443.html (8,884 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Healeys] Wood spacer strips (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark LaPierre" <lapierrem@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:53:38 -0400
- Creosote? Shellac? Man you guys are old farts. Mark _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Healeys@autox.team.net http://autox.team.net/mailm
- /html/healeys/2008-09/msg00451.html (8,329 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Healeys] Wood spacer strips (score: 1)
- Author: bspidell@comcast.net (Bob Spidell)
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:15:40 +0000
- Or linseed oil. bob -- ** Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net '67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M ** _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.te
- /html/healeys/2008-09/msg00453.html (8,183 bytes)
- 7. Re: [Healeys] Wood spacer strips (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed's Shop" <shop@justbrits.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:38:02 -0600
- <<Creosote? Shellac? Man you guys are old farts.>> Huuummmm, you must still be in 'fantasyland' and "think" you're a teenybopper, Mark !!! lol And we ALL know that is NOT so<VBG>!! __________________
- /html/healeys/2008-09/msg00454.html (7,569 bytes)
- 8. Re: [Healeys] Wood spacer strips (score: 1)
- Author: <pennell@cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:27:44 -0400
- Mirek and all, The two sets I have made and installed were of oak because that is the hardwood which I had on hand. I rubbed them down with 2 coats of tung oil because that is also what I had on hand
- /html/healeys/2008-09/msg00455.html (7,989 bytes)
- 9. Re: [Healeys] Wood spacer strips (score: 1)
- Author: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:41:21 -0400
- Not necessarily, but we're trying to copy old procedures. _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Healeys@autox.team.net http://autox.team.net
- /html/healeys/2008-09/msg00466.html (8,630 bytes)
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