7" lamp project on back burner. Install of new TV and converter box in progress. Too big for the table the old one was on. Different feet on new set!!! Found two nice finished boards to put on top. That will take care of the furniture part, sort of. Light colored boards on cherry table???


Hitch: Can't get the remote open to install batteries. Tech sending another. But, as the old set is VIZIO, it's remote will work. And, I've tons of 'em in a drawer of all old stuff!!! IR is IR, truism.


DVD to TV needed interpretation as to the color ports to use. Will do with set flat on it's face.


And wow, the cabinet is heavier than the TV. The 39 incher only weighs 21 pounds. A far shot from old CRT's!!!


A few years ago, I disposed of the old Phillips CRT. It lasted a very long time. At my the top of my ability to haul it out!!! Gotta be at least 50 pounds!!!


But, the Jaguar is purring...


Carl

 

Not something I've done but I've always wondered how one would look with a fine mesh grill rather than the bars! May take a little fabrication but it may look quite nice!

 

There you go




The full thread on Fiboys mods

FiBoy's XJ12C restoration; rebuilding a Jaguar XJ V12 Coupe

 

Are those fog lights custom? I like that. I've always thought of round head lights, use round fog lights to match

 

A lot of subtle mods on that car. Very interesting read. Some stuff I'm planning to do on mine (internal mods not external)

 

1. I think the web describes the fogs as Bosch units.


2. The mesh does look great. Way back when, in 58, I built a T Ford "speedster" from cast off parts. The radiator had a squashed top ank and one tube pinched off. A skilled friend removed the tank from the core. got the solder hot and compressed air to blow it away. Once free from the core, the brass was worked into the correct shape. soldered in place and now shiny brass, better than ever. A section of screen was cut out and suspended in front of the core. Dual function.
Bug protection. Needed where we lived. And, it hid the pinched tube.
Painted flat black, not bad. I had a scheme to cut a stencil and spray a number on it in yellow to match the body color. did not get to it.


And decades later, son and I rescued a 73 Ford Ranchero in full Country Squire trim. Mechanicaly sound, but the body badly battered.
Including the grill insert. Expanded metal from the hardware store
painted flat black. Presto, a popular "egg crate" grill.


That is one really nice XJC!!! And fantastic restoration skills demonstrated.


Carl