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[sonikk4]

No probs. It was just a nightmare to grind those welds down with a die grinder and carbide burr.

[rally515]

Thanks for that write up Benm appreciate it bud

 

Seems im not far off what the pro' are doing then   haha

 

Cheers,

Cliff

[Ben_O]

Lol. Cheers mate

 

Ben

[Ben_O]

Small update, I got some gas and finished welding up the repair section where the wiper motor goes.

I want to weld up the repair sections where the hinge brackets go but have no scuttle to put in to check alignment with the bonnet so I dug out th old scuttle which was in 3 bits, tacked it together and then clamped that to the car together with the bonnet and got this! My Camera has died again so I took these photos with my webcam!

Its a little wide but even so I can play with this more when I get a new scuttle.

 

This old scuttle is fitted to the car exactly where it was before I removed it, All of the spot welds line up so I am happy with this now so I will weld up my hinge bracket repairs tomorrow. Then im going to get a bloody scuttle!! LOL

 

Cheers

Ben

[rally515]

One step ever closer Ben :), how long do you reckon it'l be till its all sound then ? every project thread has to have an ETA  

[Ben_O]

I hope to have the shell welded up and ready for prep by the end of this year. The I want it painted by spring and finished by autumn 2014. Well that's the plane anyway!! probably won't go to plan but then what project does.

 

Cheers

Ben

[rally515]

Sounds good, not that ambitious either so i'l bet you can do it ;)

 

 

Cliff

[Ben_O]

Just finished fully welding the hinge repair pieces in so after a grind up, it will be sorted

 

Ben

[Ben_O]

And then drank a can of Stella and had a Cigar to celebrate the fact that it all lined up!

 

Ben

[ToM 2012]

cant beat a can of stella and a cigar after a hard days graft. 

[Ben_O]

Been at it again today with the grinder. Can't do any welding because the new gas bottle I picked up yesterday is only filled to 800 lb instead of 2000 so that's got to go back tomorrow.

Anyway here are the results.

 

I'm getting really fed up with working on this bulkhead now. I'm sure other mini owners don't have to do this much to just the bulkhead!

Anyway here is where I am now.

And in case you don't remember what it looked like when I started the project, here is a reminder

 

Cheers

Ben

[Zeemax Adventure]

Great work matey, its coming along nicely

[Ben_O]

Cheers! Yeah, its starting to get there. I am just so bored of working on the bulkhead!! aarrgghh

 

Ben

[Ben_O]

Today I ordered some panels. I had to order from 3 different places as not one supplier had everything I needed. I bought a heritage scuttle, a heritage top dash rail, a heritage windscreen boxing panel and an A post stiffener boxing panel.

I will of course update again when they arrive and then hopefully I will have some more interesting updates instead of boring bulkhead repairs.

 

Cheers

Ben

[Ben_O]

My mini spares order arrived this morning. So I have the scuttle and top dash rail. the scuttle had some slight damage but that's all sorted now. 

I have clamped the scuttle in place and the fit is good.

Tomorrow I will remove the old dash top rail and get the new one in.

 

If anyone reading this has their windscreen out and the scuttle etc is untouched, could you take some vertical and horizontal measurements of the windscreen aperture so I can compare  it with mine.

 

Cheers

Ben