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8 January 202010 March 2020

8-Jan-2020

Started making some new joining brackets for window frames. The old ones are badly corroded and the majority of screws are sheared off on the brackets. Not worth the effort to try and drill out and re-tap the screws so started to make new ones.

Had a couple of attempts to bend steel but couldn’t get a sharp enough bend so in the end the solution was to tig weld two pieces of metal together.

After that spent a load of money buying all the different screws required to resemble the window frame and fit it to the door (was surprised just how many different screws required and total cost).

7 January 202010 March 2020

7-Jan-2020

Fed up of working on fiber glass so today striped down the door window frames. A lot of the screws were already sheared due to rust in the brackets between the steel brackets and aluminium frames. The majority of the remaining screws were easily removed by heating them up with a blow torch before trying to remove them. Did have a couple of screws that had to be drilled out. Picture below show the frame parts once they had been disassembled.

5 January 20205 January 2020

5-Jan-2020

I was struggling repairing all the cracks in the car roof as the fibre glass was that thin it was causing it to flex with the smallest amount of pressure applied which made sanding the roof almost impossible. Took the radicle solution of stripping the car down and filliping it upside down to put a couple of layers of GRP on the inside of the roof. Hopefully my father will return tomorrow to give me a hand to flip it back over and refit front end and bonnet.

4 January 20205 January 2020

4-Jan-2020

When you open the drivers door it hits the car body and its not open very wide. Getting into a Marcos is difficult enough without not being able to open the door properly. Made the decision to sand the body to give it more space so door can be opened wider. Now just need to build up the door to fix the panel gap. Once that is done I think I will have just about finished adjust doors a boot lids so they fit nicely.

3 January 20205 January 2020

3-Jan-2020

With most of the cracks now fixed I’ve been working on other parts. Below are photo’s of before and after of the lock fit in the door. Use of filler has drastically improved the fit.