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« Reply #7665 on: August 29, 2014, 06:13:15 PM » |
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Yes it is mate. I did have a bag taped over it, but seem to have lost it. Thanks for the reminder. I'll get it sorted.
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« Reply #7666 on: August 31, 2014, 07:26:34 PM » |
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Warm sunshine today, so I had a chance to push on with the bulkhead, welding in more fill-in pieces to the side panels. Starting to look a little tidier now.
Gearbox filler tube re-bagged Terry.
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« Reply #7667 on: August 31, 2014, 07:29:13 PM » |
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I've added curved sections at the top of the "wings" to make the new panels flow into the original bulkhead a little more. Just the undersides left to do now.
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« Reply #7668 on: August 31, 2014, 07:33:26 PM » |
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Meanwhile Mr Olds had arrived & was busy doing clever stuff with the dashboard wiring. I know not what, but it involved lots of lengths of wire & soldering. Nothing for me to worry my pretty little head about, so I didn't & left him to get on with it. Thanks Dave.
Apparently we're due some warm weather again for a while, so hopefully I can push on & get the bulkhead finished & painted, the chassis painted &, who knows, maybe even the new engine in.
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« Reply #7669 on: August 31, 2014, 10:06:49 PM » |
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Nothing clever about what I'm doing with your wiring Andy. I'm just incredibly slow.
The bulkhead is looking much neater now. Must be nearly finished.
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« Reply #7670 on: September 01, 2014, 07:52:41 PM » |
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Must be nearly finished.
-you'd think so wouldn't you.
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« Reply #7671 on: September 01, 2014, 09:27:48 PM » |
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It'll NEVER be finished cos finished is not in Andy's vocabulary!
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« Reply #7672 on: September 02, 2014, 08:28:50 PM » |
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« Reply #7673 on: September 07, 2014, 09:55:39 PM » |
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Had the workshop to myself today as the chaps had decided to visit my brother Brock's workshop in Wiltshire -everyone went except me! I'd planned to go to a local classic car event, but decided the time would be better spent working on the Pop. So I finished rubbing down the P40 filler I applied a couple of days ago. That's the heavy duty filler with chopped up fibreglass strands in it, intended for bridging rust holes etc. I used it to seal all the panel edges & hopefully make it all a little more water tight. It's a bugger to rub down though.
Once that was done I went on to the normal P38 filler to smooth things out.
Between bouts of filling I also welded on the roof guttering on the drivers side. It's not actually guttering, but a length of 8mm round rod that forms a drip lip above the door. We spent all last year driving the Pop with just the passenger side done. I was careful not to distort the roof by putting too much heat into it, so did a bit of filling, a bit of welding, more filling etc.
Very slowly getting there.
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« Reply #7674 on: September 08, 2014, 04:33:11 AM » |
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any progress is good andy.
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« Reply #7675 on: September 21, 2014, 07:42:03 PM » |
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For those that have asked, no I haven't stopped working on the Pop, just nothing new to report at the moment.
Yes, I am still filling, rubbing down & filling again & yes, I am losing the will to live.
Started work on it at 8.30 this morning, finished at 6 this evening & it doesn't look any different. Actually, it is getting there, but it's a long, laborious job. A couple of weeks ago the various bulkhead sections were only tack welded together, as they were while we were driving it last year. Now it's all seam welded & hopefully weather proofed, so that's progress.
I'm pleased with the two "wing" sections, (the bits that stick out either side of the bulkhead). These were just single skinned before with scruffy inside faces where the old inner wings had been chopped off. Now they look like they've always been double skinned panels.
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« Reply #7676 on: September 21, 2014, 07:50:20 PM » |
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I'm filling & smoothing the outside of the wing sections, where the hinged air vents used to be, as well as around the wiper mounts, across the top of the windscreen & along the gutters. I'm hoping Mr Loon can spray the bulkhead green before we re-fit the engine, but I'll blow the outside bodywork over in grey primer & clear lacquer, (primer's not waterproof), for now. It's a work in progress, so will gradually get tidier & change colour as I continue fettling. I may run it without the bonnet for a while, partly just for a different look & partly to show off it's new tidier, (& hopefully greener), engine bay.
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« Reply #7677 on: September 21, 2014, 09:14:29 PM » |
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Once you start adding filler to complicated shapes or areas like firewalls it gets difficult to rub down and seems to take forever.
Should look great when finished so keep at it while you can (soon be dark cold and wet in the evenings).
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« Reply #7678 on: September 21, 2014, 09:20:08 PM » |
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Yeah, trying to keep the filler to a minimum, but there's lots of nooks & crevices to smooth out.
The new engine's sat outside, (covered up obviously), so I'd like to get it in the car before the weather changes.
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« Reply #7679 on: September 27, 2014, 06:10:36 PM » |
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Still rubbing down.
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