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03-31-2009, 08:27 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Leona
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M.O.C. #2059
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Necessity........................... (pictures)
..............the mother of invention. Truck Trunk (a North Dakota company) brand of truck storage boxes is not manufacturing now. I have a cracked plastic tray that fits into my Truck Trunk. Internet search and call around in the area, all report "part not available". Curses and tinfoil!!
Found a piece of scrap sheet metal and cut some 1-1/2" X 3" strips, painted it black with anti-rust paint, drilled 4 holes and used 4 small nuts and bolts on each side with Gorilla Glue. Now it is stronger than a new one. Aah, the good ol' baling wire days.
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03-31-2009, 10:00 AM
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Montana Master
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Location: South Shore
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Hey Stiles, can you post a few pictures of your handy work?
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03-31-2009, 10:39 AM
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Montana Master
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by Bill-N-Donna
Hey Stiles, can you post a few pictures of your handy work?
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I agree!
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03-31-2009, 10:57 AM
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Montana Master
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Stiles, Where's the pics?????
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03-31-2009, 03:51 PM
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Montana Master
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Ok, pictures of Tray Repair. After I took the pictures, I used the Dremel with a cutoff wheel to cut the Bolts off to reduce scratch hazard. The dowel was an afterthought. Probably either solution would work. Doing both may be like building a Ft Knox when a wall safe would have done the job.
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03-31-2009, 06:37 PM
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Montana Fan
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What, no DUCT tape?
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03-31-2009, 06:48 PM
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Montana Master
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OR.................J B Weld. that stuff will fix just about anything.
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Pulling a 2004, 2980 RL an oldie but goodie.
Tow vehicle is a 2009 RED RAM 3500 DRW.
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03-31-2009, 11:26 PM
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Montana Master
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2011 GMC 4X4 dually CC, 6.6 Duramax with Allison Transmission. Formally 2001 Montana,2007 3400RL Montana, presently 2018 3401RS Alpine.
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04-01-2009, 03:35 AM
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Montana Master
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There are many ways to do this. What I do is look around to see what I have on hand. My total cost was $.87 for the nuts and bolts. All the rest was either scrap or what was left from a previous project.
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04-01-2009, 04:28 AM
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Montana Master
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I recognize them white screw heads! Those have even been known to show up in my house on some repairs 
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04-01-2009, 05:45 AM
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Montana Master
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Yeah, they came out of the trim around the convenience center. Those short self-tapping screws were too short to stay in. No threads on the ends of the self-tapping. Tooth picks and full threaded screws fixed that one. So I had those left in my box. I have a hard time throwing away old screws, nuts, and bolts. Come to think of it, I could paint them black.
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