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                  Dauphin N-4 build-up
                                                            presented to you by  Sandy Alan Squitieri  . PAGE 23

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                            A quick diversion... brass screws are gound down to skin level to produce scale  flush rivet
                                    heads.

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                           The various stages of the main rear door brackets. This is what is starts out like. Cut down
                                   retangular stock silver soldered to flat  sheet , then shaped to a scale appearance.

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                            I wanted strength, reliability and ease of operation with a scale look, these are very scale
                                   with square covers added, topped off with filled bracket faces ....it should look great!

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                               Doors in open, ready to slide back position.... door is shut here , magnets with click it
                                     into place securely."H" BRASS acts as slider in the track, tube is soldered to it and presto!

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                               Doors work GREAT! pull em open from handle side, and slide her on back... smooth as silk!
                                     and it only took 14 hours! (for one side) the other side should take about an hour. 14 attempts
                                     7 designs, and now down to two  perfectly working prototypes. Well worth it. now I have to
                                     design the upper tracks and pull out sliders. oh boy.... yeah... uh huh....shoot me!
 

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