1978 Reliant kitten rebodied in hand formed aluminium

I have been using these with good effect in a kit car.
They are very easy to adapt and wire up.
Cheap as chips too….

Annoyingly l have some videos of the mechanisms working but they won’t load as photos.
I will take some still shots for you but they are super easy to adapt to almost anything!
At £20-30 it was worth the risk and paid off….oem motors are so much better than eBay generic electric window motors.

Ordered. We'll give it a go. I really appreciate your reply. thank you so much.

Ordered. We'll give it a go. I really appreciate your reply. thank you so much.[/quote]

Nice.
If you run into any problems let me know.
I used generic power window switches off eBay, you are basically reversing the polarity to go up or down.
It’s very simple but clever at the same time.
I used VW T2 bus window channels to join my glass to the Honda brackets on the mechanism, that worked very well too.
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That's great, thank you. I was thinking of bonding the glass to a metal channel which would have a bracket to line up with the holes in the traveller which is perhaps the way you have done it too using the VW channel.

Although the windows are way down the list, everything has to be thought of and designed in at an early stage to avoid difficulties further down the line  which is one of the reasons I'm finding the whole process of building a body from scratch so difficult, everything has a knock-on effect. An example of this is the cabin fuse box in the Fiesta loom. It should be accessible from a hatch in the dashboard by the steering column but when I made the dashboard and had it covered I had no thoughts of using that loom. I was going to make one from scratch. So that's given me a big problem, butcher the dashboard or put the fuse box somewhere else which is what I've done. It meant cutting through the double skinned firewall and bringing it out onto the scuttle. A lot of work which could have been avoided with a different thought process.

Following some good experiences reported on the Forum, I have purchased an Evolution power file to replace my old Black and Decker that recently failed. Initial impressions of the Evolution are very positive.


As I mentioned, I'm taking a break from panel work and making a start on the tubular frame that will support the bonnet skin and front valance. The aluminium will be clenched onto a steel sheet fence in the superleggera style. I'm using 15mm diameter ERW round tube and using the bending beam rather than heat to shape it. I've mentioned the bending beam before and it is a great tool for bending round and square tube without kinking. It is also very controllable and it is easy to creep up to the desired angle.

I've started with the three pieces that will join the grille frame to the valance and the tube to which these pieces will be welded.

Just catching up on this and it's still endlessly impressive!

Haven't seen one of those bending beams before but it looks a lot more controllable than a pipe bender. More flexible for different sizes of tube as well as you just need to bore the correct size hole rather than get shaped sets of dies...

so do you jut wop it in the hole and pull downwards john , then edge it out a bit and repeat, i assume the lead in curve stops the kinking ?

thank you john , whats the wall thickness it can work with ?

regards
robert

The rest of the job has gone well and I'm relieved that, unusually for me, I made no mistakes and the finished tube with all its bends fits the buck nicely. Just a couple more photos to complete the record of the day's work.