Phillips Guild Program Standards

Saving a G ood O ld H orn
Stage 2

February, 2007
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Craig Parmerlee's comments:

The project has been moving along in the background. The first photo is a good picture of the valve cluster after returning from being rebuilt. However, the outsides look the same as before. You can't see the rebuilt valves.

There are a few pieces that disintegrated upon disassembly. The lathe picture is Mike fabricating a new part from scratch. They have been working out dents. They did some additional disassembly in order to reach some of the dents.

We made a decision not to take the main bow apart in order to completely eliminate a dent in that bow. They can get most of it through a dent ball and other "long distance" tools, but a small dent will remain. We thought the rick and expense did not justify that operation..

The next step is reassembly, followed by sand blasting. That blasting will be done outdoors, so we're looking for a break in the weather to finish that.