Lovely day, lovely day, just a
lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Pete "Cavlad" and myself travelled down on our mountaineous bikes.
Rob was sacked from the welding job. The reason being excess cake eating.
Being full of enthusiasm, Pete had to do a load of miserable under car welding.
Whilst numerous seams were abused by the compulsive welding operative I set to on cutting some tube up. This was the really fun, creative part.
Note the artistic bend in the tube and the way that the bonnet hinge still works.
Houston we have a horizontal bar.
Cheeky triangulation via the wiring loom hole.
This picture is included because I look like an eldery Vic Reeves.
The first bits of tube had the ends cut using a hole cutter in a pillar drill. Sadly we were losing two or three teeth per end cut. After trashing two cutters in this way I reckoned I could just shape the ends with an angle grinder. And it worked. It was a lot quicker and more satisfying to do it this way.
It's a welded in strut brace.
We were running low on wire by now but had just enough to tack the rest of the tube in.
The new sound system. It's being welded in tomorrow.
We haven't been going at the job like mad men. But, then again, we
haven't been mincing either. It's putting the hours in with a consistent
work rate that gets the results. Also, we've got all the kit ready, a stack
of consumables ready to go and we've not cocked anything up.
I'm pretty chuffed with what we've done. We also managed to get the Scirocco
through an MOT, change a driveshaft on the Escort and take the engine out of
a Cavalier.