Manky's Pop.

[Manky Monkey]

Is there some sort of sporting event going on this evening? Tiddlywinks championships maybe?
There seem to be an awful lot of grown men yelling swear words at a TV screen in the pub next to my garage.
Pottering on the Pop. It's just far too hot to do anything in the garage in the afternoons & I'm too knackered by the time I get home from work in this heat anyway.
So I'm just ticking off little jobs each day.
Dave, (Lunatic's Dad), machined flats on a couple of lengths of 8mm stainless rod for me the other day & drilled some holes in them. I spent some time this evening rounding the ends with a file, which involved a trip across town to my 2nd lock-up to use the workbench, then I drilled the perspex sun visors to suit.
Nothing very exciting, just a means of holding the visors up cos they slowly drop down when you're driving. Now I'm waiting for some spring clips to arrive from eBay to clip them into.
I'm sorting out all the little jobs around the windscreen & roof so I can fit the upholstered headlining panel. Trying to get that done before I go on holiday next week.

[Manky Monkey]

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[Manky Monkey]

Can't fit solid visors cos, with the roof chop, I'd end up with a 2" tall slot to look through. These are 5mm thick green perspex.

[Manky Monkey]

The mounting screws pass through locating tabs on the windscreen surround & screw into captive nuts on the back of the headlining panel, so can't go on until I fit that. Somewhere around here.
That's reflections, not scratches, although they have gained a few while they've been stored in the lock-up.

[Manky Monkey]

Is there any way of polishing scratches out of perspex without making it cloudy? I've cleaned them with cutting compound but that's not enough to remove actual scratches.

[stinkey]

You can get Perspex polish

[Manky Monkey]

Really?

[Manky Monkey]

Hey, he's right. Who knew?!
But will it work on coloured perspex?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F372303233091

[stinkey]

Neither know their coloured ? 

[Manky Monkey]

Little spring clips arrived in the post this morning, but it's so humid here today that I'm feeling utterly drained after marching round the streets in it all morning. No energy left at all.

[poprodder]

i did 120miles on delivery today, mostly sittin on me arse in a van driving!!!! but i did load 10 vans before that and started at 5am!!!! finished at 4pm. the internet has a lot to answer for!!!!
them visors look fab.

[Manky Monkey]

[Manky Monkey]

So, so hot here
I've got a new phone. It tells me how many steps I walk each day. At 11.0.clock this morning it said Congratulations, you've reached your 10,000 step target. I didn't finish marching round the streets with the Mail until 3.30 this afternoon. 26,500 steps. I was absolutely knackered.
Had to nip over to the powder coaters when I finished to collect the weight tube & various brackets, but literally just dropped them off at the garage & went home. No energy for anything else at the moment
The coater said he'll save up some used shot blasting grit for me. It's classed as hazardous waste so he has to pay to have it taken away -so I'll be doing him a favour

[The North]

Visors look good, i think the rover P4 (auntie Rover) Had something similar as stock , Sure it was the p4 We had one 20 years ago sure it was that car with the transparent visors. You are right about the heat its unbearable.

[Manky Monkey]

Thank God it was a bit cooler today. Almost pleasant.
I was able to attack the paintwork with some cutting compound without breaking into too much of a sweat.
There are a couple of areas -the back of the cab below the swageline & the right rear corner, which are still quite orange peely. I'll go back & sand them a bit more aggressively, then cut them again -but not today. It'll never be perfect, but if I can get it to the point where people just say It's a green paint job, rather than Look at that horrible aerosol job, I'll be happy.
I've been called a horrible aerosol a few times.