Just read through this. Wow...what a heroic effort

cheers

James

Speedy88 wrote:It's indoors. It can wait. If I were you I'd get all the "lower down" jobs done before it gets REALLY cold. Don't want to be on the floor when the cold starts coming upwards.

I know, did that last year, sitting on cold floor for ages, did not do my ass any good atall. Ended up with underfloor matting down my pants, worked a treat

Have installed a rad in the garage and just got cavity wall ins in the house/garage, still foor will probably get cold.

As for 'heroic', probably stupid really, but its labour of love.

Isn't stupid an integral part of heroic?! Anyone still running one of these cars kinda needs their head examining, so we all fit in well

cheers

James

Made some progress with this difficult shape.

Repaired the windscreen curve
Let in vertical and horizontal patch to the inner corner Used carboard template to work out shape for layer 2, aswell as diagrams above to work out what I am connecting, then cut out in metal
Attached layer 2 patch to the curve with mole grips and beat it down to the required curve (not critical as hidden). Still a bit of trmming and shaping, but hardest bit over.

Keep up the good work mate, I have so much respect for what you're doing!

Tom

I'm really not looking forward to the day I have to do this job. Good metal smacking skills RideOn!

Chris_C wrote:I'm really not looking forward to the day I have to do this job. Good metal smacking skills RideOn!

Honestly it was easy, I have no bashing skills. Generally I can only repair flat parts, anything with curves or bend I often just weld it in partially then beat it down. Only tools - anvil, shears, claw hammer and mole grips, and lots of grinding equipment. This curve was easy because its just structural internal, no cosmetic aspect. The hard part was knowing what to connect to what because there was so much loss. Anything more complicated I cut from a donor, or weld flat parts together.

If the outer skin is not worth recovering, you can buy repair sections.

Hi Mate.
Fantastic work. Way above my skill zone.
You deffinatly qualify for a replacement windscreen
Cheers Mark.

Some more photos to keep you interested

More older photo's and doing the sill today in anticipation of Macplaxtons arrival with new sill.

Brave work there!

It's getting there

Well done! Brave man ...

Tom

My hat is off to you for doing a proper job of killing the rust.

WELL DONE !!, I am impressed you are taking the time.

John

Hi mate.
Job seems to be coming along fine.
I think i was ment to pick up some sills from mac at the beginning
of september for you but they had not been delivered to him
before the meet so i couldn't bring them home.
Cheers Mark.