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[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Coming on well mate. You must be starting to see the light of fresh paint soon? Keep at it

[alex-95]

Coming on well mate. You must be starting to see the light of fresh paint soon? Keep at it

Cheer's Craig. Yeah should be, Just have to finish the welding, grinding, other bit's on the body and paint prep.

I haven't done much this weekend, I got this wipac fog light off of ebay so gave that a quick polish.


Next weekend I'll try and get some more work done

[minimuk]

Coming on well mate. You must be starting to see the light of fresh paint soon? Keep at it

Cheer's Craig. Yeah should be, Just have to finish the welding, grinding, other bit's on the body and paint prep.

I haven't done much this weekend, I got this wipac fog light off of ebay so gave that a quick polish.


Next weekend I'll try and get some more work done

you sure you put it on the Arch??

[alex-95]

I haven't done much this weekend, I got this wipac fog light off of ebay so gave that a quick polish.


Next weekend I'll try and get some more work done

you sure you put it on the Arch??

of course

[alex-95]

An update from the weekend:
I started to wire brush the bulkhead so that I can give it a coat of paint to prevent the rust, I still need to do the boot and the passenger footwell.



Then I started on the front panel at there was a few holes where I didn't have a spot weld drill so took the bumper Lip off with a chisel. So I drilled the holes bigger and filed them sqaurer so that i could cut out repairs.


So then I set about welding them in, which I didn't get very far ... The gas run out .

[alex-95]

Dad and I went and got some gas yesterday so i could crack on with a bit of welding.
Set the welder upand welded the front valance.



Then I set about replacing the patch on the passengers side subframe mount.



With that cut out I made two panels, one for the inside peice and one for the outside.

To get the bevelled shape I cut out a semi-circle in a peice of wood and clamped the metal to it.



it still needs to be adjusted and curved slightly so that it can be welded in.

Alex

[grahama]

Nice work on the front panel Alex, Looks like the strengthening piece for the subframe mount needs your attention too. Coming along tho !

Graham

[alex-95]

Cheer's graham, it needs a bit of work there and small patch further up the inner wing.
Alex

[alex-95]

I had to make a new inner panel as the other didn't fit to the outer one. So with that made and the inside wirebrushed and kurusted, I welded them on.






With that welded in, I Started cutting out the rust in the inner wing.

There was loads of bloody spot welds


In the end I ground them off.



Any comments welcome.

Alex

[alex-95]

Not much of an update, I haven't really done much since the last update as I've got Exams this week And Dad and I have been doing work on the Ritz http://www.theminifo...ur-ritz-part-2/, So should be able to get going again this weekend.
I also got this today so should be able to take out the cones:


Alex

[Nossedout]

keep up the good work!

[elpedro]

wow grate thread such a joy reading keep up the good work have to remeber to keep an eye out for this one

[alex-95]

wow grate thread such a joy reading keep up the good work have to remeber to keep an eye out for this one

Cheer's, It's great getting comment's like that

[alex-95]

Not done much again, but other things have got in the way, We did try to remove the cones from the front subframe which didn't go to well as I stripped the threads, so we baught a m14 tap to tap the holes from unf to the metric size.
Anyway Today I carried on with the front panel. The drivers side subframe mount was rusty too, not as bad though.

Cut out the rust

Then I made a peice to fit, But didn't manage to weld it in.


We also made one extended seat bracket and Dad got the other parts ready to be made.

[PNL629G]

Impressive stuff! I'm liking how you are knocking up the repair panels where possible - that's a great way to learn!