Heater channels.

kaddy · Post by **kaddy** » 27th April 2015 - 7:38pm

Ive just been offered a set of karmman ghia heater channels.

Would they be suitable for the fasty , and will they need any modification. Or
am I better off making my own as I intended to do originally. Thanks

kaddy · Post by **kaddy** » 30th April 2015 - 8:01pm

Anybody have any idea at all???

Thanks

mjrpoulton · Post by **mjrpoulton** » 1st May 2015 - 10:29am

If you mean the inner heater channel box section from a type 34 KG then from photos I have seen of a Type 3 sill structure they are significantly different. If you mean the complete sill assembly from the type 14 KG, then again completely different.

Why not post an image of what you are trying to fix, sure there will be plenty of helpful advice on here.

Mark

kaddy · Post by **kaddy** » 1st May 2015 - 9:07pm

I was offered a set of KG heater channels, and wanted to find out how much modification was needed.

From the information I,ve managed to find, I,d say I,m better off sticking to my original idea,
of making up my own sections.

I,m well into my resto now, but loads and loads more to go

Post by **Editor** » 2nd May 2015 - 12:38am

Someone on here has fabricated them for their project - details should be somewhere on the forum, but the search engine often seems reluctant to find what you want!

kaddy · Post by **kaddy** » 2nd May 2015 - 6:41pm

I started my own fabricating of my heater channels. But when the KG channels
came up I just did a bit of looking for the info on them. But I think I,ll carry on with my own ones.

kaddy · Post by **kaddy** » 3rd May 2015 - 3:01pm

Currently working on this corner at the moment.

Cant seem to fix the orientation on the last pic,sorry.

kaddy · Post by **kaddy** » 8th May 2015 - 9:12am

Corner nearly done with all new metal,

col1600 · Post by **col1600** » 9th May 2015 - 10:34pm

Excellent work..very tasty fab skills going on there

kaddy · Post by **kaddy** » 10th May 2015 - 1:27pm

col1600 wrote:Excellent work..very tasty fab skills going on there

Thanks colin. Just doing the best I can really, to end up with a solid fasty.

I have to say your thread motivated me to get up off me arse and get mine going ,:D

kaddy · Post by **kaddy** » 15th May 2015 - 4:59pm

Bit more progress made ..

col1600 · Post by **col1600** » 15th May 2015 - 5:22pm

fantastic work. and at a fair ol pace aswell.
what thickness steel are you using

colin..

kaddy · Post by **kaddy** » 15th May 2015 - 6:28pm

I,m using 19 guage 0.0418 inch. 1.062 mm, which as far as my research says matches original spec
for body repairs, open to correction on that. But it matches existing metal

And I,ve used galvanised 1.5mm material for heater channels, and I,ll match whatever or better for any
structural .
So far every thing seems good. I,ve used 1.2mm material for the front bulkhead re inforcement sections.

Progress is ok at the moment considering I took the body off in the first week in march 2015, so probably a
little under 3 months at the moment.

But seeing as I,m forcibly retired and have loads of time to fill, I,m smiling

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