bed mounts

sweptD100 · Post by **sweptD100** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:02 pm

does anybody knw where i can get bed mounts or if their needed or have the dimentions so i can cut them myself?
68 D100 pick up. thanks.

demulsion · Post by **demulsion** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:10 pm

The bed mounts are blocks of (I think) Ash wood. I'm not aware of anyone who sells them. Are your old ones good enough to use as templates?

Post by **Hobcobble** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:17 pm

White Oak.

John

demulsion · Post by **demulsion** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:00 pm

Yeah, that's the stuff, thanks John! You would think a carpenter would know these things...

sweptD100 · Post by **sweptD100** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:12 pm

thats a negative. pretty much crumbled to nothingness...

demulsion · Post by **demulsion** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:31 pm

I sold the bed off my parts truck several months back, and don't have plans to remove the bed off my '68 for several months yet. Perhaps Ben (CSS-Registry) has measurements from when he restored his truck?

F6866 · Post by **F6866** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:35 am

I bought mine about 1 1/2 or 2 years ago from Horkys wood and parts, but it appears that they no longer have them. I do not have the measurements but from observation the wood blocks in mine were not truly mounts but were spacers that were installed in the mounting channels to prevent the channels from compressing when the bolt was tightened. They were thicker than standard 2 x 4 lumber, and were rounded off on one side to fit the channel.
Although if you were not looking for correctness anything that would fill the channel with a bolt hole through it would be functional. ie: a stack of fender washers, multiple layers of wood with a hole drilled in it, etc.etc.

Yellow71 · Post by **Yellow71** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:17 pm

My good friend is a furniture maker, and he said that it is a hard, moisture resistant type of mahogany.

The mahogany he bought me is very hard, and has a very red color to it. Says 43 JATOBA on it, if that means something?

I asked him...isn't mahogany a soft wood, and he said there are many types of mahogany, some soft, some hard.

He knows a lot more about wood than I do, so I dunno.

JimE · Post by **JimE** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:30 pm

Believe their oak 2 x 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Jim

PS. I copied this from an old posting on Kris Wickstead's site.

Yellow71 · Post by **Yellow71** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:04 pm

JimE wrote:Believe their oak 2 x 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Jim

PS. I copied this from an old posting on Kris Wickstead's site.

Hey Jim, could you please post the link?

Thanks.

Sweptline.ORG

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