Merry Christmas to you too Nick! Hope you and your family have a blessed holiday.

It is a bit chilly this morning....1F.....and windy, but we have the fireplace going, fully bellies, family home...life is good! This tub is the early ACM Type 1....so indeed very different set of hat channels. As I understand the story, the War Department had Ford outsource their tubs to ACM in '44.....Ford had them make changes...including to the hat channel design and the Type II ACM was born. They are much closer to the Ford made tubs than the original ACM I. So much to learn! Thanks again.

Glad you are enjoying them Nick. Appreciate all of your support and encouragement. Enjoy the cold and glad to hear you are busy. Can't wait to get back to the Weasel and start playing with Weasel canvas!! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family!

Many thanks for the tips Dave. I am going to remove those side hat channels - nice to know that RF carries them....we shall see how bad those are once I get them removed. Pat D has a very original early GPW.....we are doing some comparisons and will report back shortly. Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Much appreciated Tom! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Hey Mat! Look forward to seeing you next week. Merry Christmas to the entire Wingle family!

I am pretty sure you would roll up your sleeves here Nona :-)!!! Next visit, we learn to weld!!

Thanks for the feedback Steve. Glad you are enjoying it!

Greetings Robert. You are absolutely correct. The only damaged sections of the joint between hat channel and floor were at the edges by the steps. These hat channels originally fit tight enough to the floor that there was not a lot of space for water to get between them....any place it did, the rust starts and increases the amount of space...more water...more rust etc. These old machines may have been built quickly, but it was a quality job.....

I sincerely appreciate your comment Robert. That sentiment sums up why I started doing videos in the first place. I too was totally intimidated by restoring my tub, but I have a friend who is a master at this stuff and he goaded me into starting. I made a ton of mistakes and got plenty of help along the way, but eventually started figuring it out. At the time, I wished there were better videos to show me what was going to happen along the way....so I decided to try and figure out how to make videos too. They are both long journeys....and so well worth it.... You are in for a treat when you start the process of conquering that tub....