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[dave1293gt]

BIG tip I forgot to tell all my readers - Tired of having your sills rust away before you know it, then here's a decent tip for you - fill the sills with expanded foam, the type you squidge into noox & crannies. It fills the sill to bursting point, no air gaps & weighs b*gg*r all. Bye Bye rust


Expanding foam is not water proof even after the outer skin has hardened. it does become water logged and act as a sponge. as one of our competitors found out to his cost of a multi million pound contract and 3no 5 week old ptz dome cameras. Ouch

[dekz2uk]

After lunch, put new cutting disc on angle grindee, cut around 4" worth and crunch, grind, Kaboom 1 x very dead, sheared gears inside, was angle grinder.

Dig around in garage and grinder2 to the rescue.

Results are below note: dents in old roof - it had to go!





Enough for today - grind out bitz over next few days after work, cut down new roof and weld on new 'un.

Watch dis space.

[dekz2uk]

Well, opened up "mini shack" today and father in his 1275 auto arrived + he brought with him another angle grinder (I'm killing mine with style!!). Spent next few hours fitting ultimate engine stabiliser, changing oil and filter and giving it another tune-up. sorted

Played with sizing up/fitting roof and tomorrow after 'booting' 1st thing for bitz, I will be zapping with my welding kit.

Also ordered a few metres of 7 core cable today off fleabay for lighting and stuff.

[Gingerjoe]

I am actually to darn excited to see this all finished!!!! * bookmarks *

[Pie]

7 core cable??? jeebus Alan??!!!! What the hell you going to need 7 core for? i would have though 4core would have been more than adequadte lol
You plannign on running halogen spot lights inside the mini lol

[dekz2uk]

7 core cable??? jeebus Alan??!!!! What the hell you going to need 7 core for? i would have though 4core would have been more than adequadte lol
You plannign on running halogen spot lights inside the mini lol

Weeeeelllll Pie my old bud - on the 'new' roof I'm fitting, there is an arial hole. Hmm I thought perfick for mounting my miniature colour camera and with 2 1/2" lcd screen on my dash, I can see traffic behind me. Therefore need cable for that - so am piggy-backing on trailer cable.

Whose sad? - not me, techno gadge man me.

[dekz2uk]

So, today after car booty and trips to Halfools for bitz and after moochow interuptow, I finally opened up the "shack" and got down to nitty gritty.


Shout from wifey that she had an intruder in lounge so went to investigate. What I found was my son Mike (Nine inch snails) had his latest work in progress to show me.



He's getting ready for Milton Keynes event (Collector Mania) on May 24/25th - hoping to raise money for charitee.

Anyway back in projectland - La ******* had 1st sight of new bumchum as I needed to take precise measurements aka roof.



They seemed to hit it off although when I sat on floor of trailer, roof fell on my head and clipped my shoulder (La ******* 2 living up to it's name. )

After some cutting and grinding finally got roof to look at least 1/2 presentable.






Will weld and clean up during week after work - next weekend being bankhoolyday will be able to do a load of stuff. Watch this space.

[Bungle]

LOL your son looks great

[miniboo]

I thought you weren't doing the roof chop thing at the pillars?

[Tomf]

Man iv been following this the whole way through, your doing a good job. Cant wait to see it on BH2N.

Keep up the good work.

[dekz2uk]

I thought you weren't doing the roof chop thing at the pillars?

I was indeed going down that route 'miniboo' until I saw what was involved - too much welding.

Therefore Plan B into operation and chop off pillars to match - really tricky today 'slicing and dicing' pillars to size. Again not an easy job at all, must be fairly accurate with window & door orifices although I am going to be using dark blue tinted perspex, (sexy ) which I can trim to size.

Tomorrow finally weld it up and start seriously prepping shell for primer - this weekend.

Been on fleabay again and ordered some ultra high gloss american lacquer/hardener + some panel wipe. Will be getting 5Ltr of high gloss thinners on thursday.

Its all happening now, and of course in 2 weeks time - the BIG paint session will take place. Getting excited now.


PS. 'Tomf' Can't wait to finally see your green monster @ BH2N this year.

[marksmini]

Tomorrow morning is "C" day and pixies will be posted - watch this space.

do you mean the TMF pixies ?

lol

[Pie]

[dekz2uk]

After loadsa housework, shopping & other interesting things , finally got down on it and started 'doing' the trailer. Prepped nearside and back end with a good key, blow dried with hair dryer (gets rid of all dust in corners etc.) and then panel wiped it. Got all 'da gear' ready for the off or should I say the on!!!




Mixed up high build grey primer and thinners 1:1, got all dressed up in safety gear/ airline and had a good squirt at the body work. Sanded between coats and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.



Now getting quite excited because even in grey, it's starting to look the dogs danglies.


More to follow and of course next weekend I'm off work for a week to do loadz o'stuff including basecoat (Arizona Blue Metallic) and High Gloss Lacquer.

[Pie]

Looking good alan. Any special plans for the back of the trailer? airbrushing? "Long Mini Vehicle" sticker on bootlid??