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D series dash/instrument panel find
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    Posted: 19 Sep 2010 at 7:34am
Back when I was looking for a relpacement for the corroded panel for the D 15 I wound up paying good bucks for it.
 
The other day i was licking my finger and thumming thru Steiners parts book and noticed them in stainless for certain D series for 34.95
 
If hose have the swirls on them, I woulda thought Xmas came early a couple of years ago.


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I ordered one, they do not have the swirls.  Gonna be a job to put them in there.
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I have seen those kind of swirls put on before. I don't know what was used on the dash panels but I watched a guy do a piece of steel once, it's very easy. You cut a wooden dowel (size matters) square off on one end and turn the other end to fit in a drillpress chuck. Dab some lapping compound on the dowel and go to it. If you did it in a mill you could advance the part the same amount of travel to get the effect you want. 
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Go to Brownell's gun supply and look for a rifle bolt jeweling tool. All the instructions and compound should be right there. 
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"Engine Turned" - that's what it's called. CTucker has it right too - easy as pie with a drill press.

The one really classy thing about those old Studebakers my dad drove was the engine turned instrument panel and Stewart Warner gauges.
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CJohn, I have 2 Studebakers and never noticed that. Both are trucks though, maybe they were cheaper. LOL
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I make the plates with turnings...
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Originally posted by DSeries4 DSeries4 wrote:

I make the plates with turnings...
Snazzy!
If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done!
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Originally posted by CTuckerNWIL CTuckerNWIL wrote:

CJohn, I have 2 Studebakers and never noticed that. Both are trucks though, maybe they were cheaper. LOL


Yeah, don't recall what trucks looked like, but all those 53 and up commanders, presidents, hawks and so on had that feature - probably stipulated by Raymond Loewy.

The dash panel was probably the only part that didn't rust off those cars - they were notorious rust buckets.
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Originally posted by DSeries4 DSeries4 wrote:

I make the plates with turnings...



Nice work!
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