28-05-2018, 01:33 PM
Hello Derek,
I made it from my late mother’s stainless steel meat dish cover. The hinge pin is 5/16” rod (from a mate at work who was clearing out his garage). Method :- make one hinge piece from cereal packet to test dimensions then make in stainless by using short length of hinge pin material and wrap pin with stainless steel ,squeezing in vice to form the hole in the hinge piece. The bonnet material at the hinge is bent over at right angles to the bonnet top and the completed hinge/rod assembly attached using small pan head screws. Preferably not pop rivets if you are fussy about anachronisms.
Cheers,
Dave.
I think this method is as Chris Gould’s as shown in “Building repro Ulsters”
I made it from my late mother’s stainless steel meat dish cover. The hinge pin is 5/16” rod (from a mate at work who was clearing out his garage). Method :- make one hinge piece from cereal packet to test dimensions then make in stainless by using short length of hinge pin material and wrap pin with stainless steel ,squeezing in vice to form the hole in the hinge piece. The bonnet material at the hinge is bent over at right angles to the bonnet top and the completed hinge/rod assembly attached using small pan head screws. Preferably not pop rivets if you are fussy about anachronisms.
Cheers,
Dave.
I think this method is as Chris Gould’s as shown in “Building repro Ulsters”