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Triumph TR6 - Slave frame

The TRF Green Book shows what they call a "Slave Frame" to maintain integrity and alignment for their complete body shell while shipping/handling/etc.. I queried if they had specs and drawings and they do not. They get the body shell on the frame from elsewhere. I'm sure some of you have fashioned a holding device/dunnage for your tub when you did an off the frame restoration. We have demensional drawings for the frame, body etc in several of the supply catalogs and manuals on CD-II, but I don't recall a demensioned drawing that would suffice for a "Slave Frame". I intend to weld up such a device to secure my tub for bead blasting, painting, etc. and to permit me to work on my chassis stuff. Anyone out there have a drawing or measurements for such a device that they are willing to share? Thanks.
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Doug Baker

Do you think it is needed. The shell is rigid with all the body parts on it
DON KELLY

Don, I don't have all the body parts on the tub. Well I do have most, just not the outer wings, the doors, bonnet and boot lid AND for now, the left inner wing. I have the tub secured with brace between the A&B posts and across the width of the cockpit, but when I take it off the frame, I need to may very sure I maintain the current geometry and thus the slave frame. Fairly simple to weld up, I'd think and bar stock is cheap. I can also add wheels to roll it around the shop in and out of the paint booth etc.
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Doug Baker

It's a 6, not a Rolex Doug.


DON KELLY

Ah, Don, but you're always good for a giggle. Actually ironic, I just had my watch serviced!! Now that's a revelation. I have to take the tub to a soda blast guy some 30 miles away to soda blast it clean for painting, then back to the shop where I tentatively plan to first coat all over with POR-15 and then first top color coat within the time window available, something like 2 hours or so. No interfacing primer needed. After that I can continue to top coat and buff, polish, top coat, etc until I either get tired of the damn thing or reach an objective state. In any event I need to be able to move the tub about and have access top and bottom. I have a rotisserie available to me, but it'll take some adaptation to fit to the tub without strutural support thus the slave frame!!
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Doug Baker

Doug, does your car look like the one in the image?
Is it about the same state?
DON KELLY

Don,
Mine's about the same stage as the image. I deduce you've built a frame of wood? So you just lift the tub off and turn it over to get to the underside?
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Doug Baker

Not my frame put about 25 other people I know also do it this way.
I would suggest doing the underside first
DON KELLY

This thread was discussed between 14/09/2010 and 15/09/2010

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