2012
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
More plating
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Did I mention that I love freshly plated parts? Can't actually do much with these until I put the engine back in though.
Sunday, 24 June 2012
and they said you couldn't spray at 11*C
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Done and dusted.....well, undercoated.
More prep
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The more I look at the paint on the frames, the worse it looks. Some clown has blown acrylic over the tops of the frames and the firewall without preparing the paint below. Result? Areas of loose paint that peel off. So I've sanded the offending areas back to sound paint. I'll have to undercoat some of these areas first before I paint them.
Below is the result of a couple of hours of sand/blow/degrease/mask off.
Laughably, it's been too cold and rainy to actually spray the paint this week, but hopefully I'll get it done in the next few days. Blowing a couple of coats of 2K undercoat/filler on will probably only take 20 minutes or so.
Then it can sit for a couple of weeks, I'll give it a light hand sand and then remask and blow the colour on.
Monday, 18 June 2012
Oh dear...
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I seem to have bought another E Type.
Series 1 3.8l OTS, LHD.
More pics here: www.flickr.com/photos/71499700@N08/sets/72157629836555661/
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Paint it black
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In preparation for blowing some colour over the frames I've put some new sound deadener in the tunnel and on the underside of the guards.
In the past I've used the bitumen based schutz, but this time I'm trying a water-based schutz. It was really easy to spray, and best of all, cleans up in water! I put on a good thick coat.
The weather is against me however; it's cold and drizzly so after spraying it yesterday it's still wet in spots this morning. Not to be defeated I've put a fan heater under the car to encourage it to go off. I'm not painting it with top coat til next weekend anyway so it should be OK.
Monday, 11 June 2012
Spring cleaning
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Well it's actually Winter here, but after 4 hours with degreaser and a scrubbing brush, I have the cleanest engine frames in Christendom.
Next stop, Paint Supplies.
Sunday, 10 June 2012
A worsening of Shipwright's Disease
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I finally bit the bullet today and started to clean up the engine frames. I am determined not to remove them from the car, but I will put some effort into getting as much grime as possible off them and then give them a spruce up with some paint where needed.
So off came the steering rack. It's interesting really as it's the part that started it all.
The grime is really baked on, and only scrubbing with neat degreaser shifts it. I reckon if I give it a really good go I'll get most of it finished tomorrow.
I'm still very reluctant to take out the brake pedals though. I'm hoping to be able to work around them.
We'll see...
Sunday, 03 June 2012
Jockeying for position
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With no front wheels and a need to get the car outside to degrease and clean the front frames the need to make it movable became paramount. After canvassing many helpful suggestions I settled on the idea of using a trailer jockey wheel.
After a bit of welding..success!
Thursday, 31 May 2012
I like plating
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Waiting for parts, la la la.
Got a bucket of stuff back from the platers; I love this stuff.
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
The Unicorn
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Ron has discovered a very rare beast indeed. He tells me that there is a man called Carl, whose local business does metal polishing, chrome and zinc plating and...powder coating all at the same premises! Ron got some motorbike bits polished and said that they were reasonably priced and look good.
So the back of my car is full of buckets of bolts, freshly sandblasted objects for powder coating and my rusty old bumpers.
Let's see just how good Carl the Unicorn is.
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