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[rally515]

cheers mate will look threw it. i need to get a hole cutter then as i dont think i can cut the small hole with a grinder. whats do you use for cuting holes in metal? 

 

Well i,ve got a few different tools alot powered by air pressure but you can make it out with a scriber, drill the biggest hole you can anywere within the circle marked and go around slowly with the tin-snips, leave about 10mm and trim that back with something like this:

http://images.toolpl...p/400649__1.jpg

 

Either in a drill or air tool if you have one :) very usful for doing little hard to reach repairs

[ToM 2012]

cheers mate i will take a look on ebay as i can see me needing them lol 

[STREET TWEAKS]

Man you must be off your head. Lol but well done and thanks for today.

[ToM 2012]

lol np wayne did you finish it? and we all have to start somewhere 

[STREET TWEAKS]

Ha ha even I would not start there lol

[george66]

cheers mate will look threw it. i need to get a hole cutter then as i dont think i can cut the small hole with a grinder. whats do you use for cuting holes in metal? 

Evening, I've also just made these panels myself, to cut the holes out, I used a stepped drill bit http://www.ebay.co.u...=item35cb6ebc80

and drilled as close to the edge as possible, I then used a nibbler, http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5d42b78ab8 to cut as much out as possible and as close to the edge of the hole as possible and then I used a profile sander http://www.ebay.co.u...=item53fecc0253 to get right to the edge.

 

I did not not buy tools from the above links, just linked to em for pictures.

[ToM 2012]

thanks george i have been looking on ebay and wouldnt these do the trick? 

 

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item589f420020

[george66]

thanks george i have been looking on ebay and wouldnt these do the trick? 

 

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item589f420020

Can't see why not m8

 

Here's mine

 

In place

Edited by george66, 06 October 2013 - 06:46 PM.

[rally515]

Very nice pieces George, your work looks quite clean, any pictures on photobucket or similar i can have a nosey through ?

 

Heres something else you'll need to fabricate aswell tom

 

It's under the bottom dash rail and the lips spot weld to the flitch and A-post stiffener for strenth.

[ToM 2012]

very nice work george might have to copy them as they bend nicely mine are just straight. as cliff said do you have any piccys so we can have a nosy at your handy work might help us with our projects? and cliff ino what you mean i chopped mine of as it was rusty as you could expect. ile soon make one of those up once i see a piccy of one allready made so i get a ruff idea. its all go. 

[rally515]

Any other areas of a mk1 body you might want reference photos for T ? its just im cutting some mk1 panels i have up for what i need only hha so might aswell make use of them for reference or use.

Edited by rally515, 06 October 2013 - 06:57 PM.

[ToM 2012]

not as yet but there is one thing i want to get out the way this week and thats stripping the doors glass out and etc but i have no idea how the glass comes out and etc? and ile check my doors then to see how good they are before i start doing the door step. 

[rally515]

I know that you'll have to take the inner trim out first and despite doing this on mine i honestly can't remember how haha, you'll figure it out when you sit down and look at it but im 90% certain they fall out inwards when you remove something.

 

Don't worry about damaging the flocked rubber channels as you probably need to replace those seeing how dead the rest of the car is

[ToM 2012]

lol ok mate i just hope the screws are not rusty and are hard to remove as i hate rust now and sick of seeing it and messing with it! 

[george66]

There isn't much more that I've had to make yet.

Here's my build, although it's a Mk3 hornet and not a Mk1 mini

http://www.theminifo...hornet-project/

There has been some progress on the build, just haven't got around to updating, hoping to bring it upto date within the next week or two, been busy with getting family MOT's and other stuff sorted, fitting the son a new bathroom this week and a new kitchen at the end of the month, so probably won't get much done on the hornet for a while, bloody kids!