Little more progress today, rear clamp assemblies.
After owning a machine shop for over 22 years and living by the mantra "If you don't draw it up in CAD, you will screw it up" what did I do? Yup, just made the pieces, didn't draw them. Actually turned out pretty well except the over center clamp didn't quite make it over center with the locking pin in. Put a kick in both of the clamp rods and it is over center just fine now. There is a jack screw in the top of the aluminum blocks to adjust the height of the hardtop off the deck, and setscrews to hold the locating pin in place. Even milled a slot in the pins for the setscrews so they won't mar the rod and keep it from moving. Now on to the front clamps. Just ordered new ones (found then on eBay at quite a discount) Protex brand with a latch for the latch. https://www.ebay.com/itm/11252798882...Bk9SR7KGy_mdYg if anyone is interested.
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Little more progress today, rear clamp assemblies.
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