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Hi John, same to you and yours  Phil came over today and took the rear wings and one front wing away, so more room at home now. A good day of progress today, I replaced the last of my flourescent tubes with LED ones (the led replacements are being discontinued so though it wise to buy them while I can) and after that I started back on Phils car. The bonnets were flattted off and then coated with Green Ti high build primer filler, the bootlid got done as well as I had a decent amount left over after doing the bonnets.  Once they were cured I prepped the fuel tank for paint, I had previously brush painted a lot of it but the black paint is a soft paint when thick so thought I'd finish it by spraying. It was very good temps today at 15 degrees so I added a bit of rocket as well to make sure it cures nice and hard. The diff straps were also done (in background).  The infra red heater doing its stuff;  599 hours. |
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599 hours, almost the end of 2021.
Be interesting to see where you land by midnight tonight.
Your progress continues to amaze me, I suspect there is a bit of experience thrown in for good measure.
But it makes me grin, every time I look in here or show Sally.
She did ask me a while ago if I was planning on building her a car.
I said no chance, and the relief was obvious on her face.
Happy New Year when you get to it.
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Dec 31, 2021 11:46:13 GMT
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Hi Grizz,
I'm hoping the bonnets will be in gloss by the end of the day but knowing how long it takes to block them down....we'll see.
Happy new year to everyone who reads and likes this thread (and some even comment!).
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Dec 31, 2021 11:50:10 GMT
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Happy New Year !
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Dec 31, 2021 19:13:32 GMT
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Well Grizz, I got there! 3 hours of sanding and cleaning left me with a very sore back (from bending over to sand) but the bonnets were ready for paint. I painted some other bits at the same time, door wedges;  and the battery hold down clamp;
 and the bonnets got the first 2 coats laid down;  Not a bad shine for the base coats - a little orange peely but that's ok as they are only the build up coats.  That's the last update for 2021. 602.5 hours.
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Dec 31, 2021 19:21:23 GMT
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Hi Mark, Looking good, it may be just the shine but the paint looks like it’s on quite thick. This is giving me encouragement to get back to mine in the New Year. All the best for the New Year and as always looking forward to the next update, Norman.
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Dec 31, 2021 19:31:19 GMT
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Hi Norman,
It's not thick yet as it is a dust coat first with one full coat on top.
Tomorrow I'll flat it back for another 2 coats (another light coat for grip, then a full coat for a good gloss finish).
2K HS paint does go on a lot thicker than cellulose if you have never used it before.
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Dec 31, 2021 20:31:41 GMT
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Mark, all the best for 2022. Still enjoying your posts and the quality work
Peter
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Dec 31, 2021 22:43:07 GMT
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Hi Mark,
Excellent as usual,
Hope you and yours have a great New Year,
Nigel
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BMW E39 525i Sport
BMW E46 320d Sport Touring (now sold on.)
BMW E30 325 Touring (now sold on.)
BMW E30 320 Cabriolet (Project car - currently for sale.)
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Happy New Year Mark. đź‘Ť
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Happy new year to you too!
James
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Ahoy m'hearties!! I trust we all had a good shanty on the decks with a few kegs of rum!! Arrggh!!  None of that sore headedness, back to work boys! raise the mainsail yer rabble of misfits, we got treasure to find! |
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^^^ sorry about that, Cap'n Pete goldfinch found my laptop logged in and had a play  Progress this year  is the bonnets were flatted back and 2 more coats laid on them. While they were drying I started working on the boot hinges, smoothing the edges off and going over the chrome lightly with the flap wheel to get rid of the rust and to give a key for the epoxy primer when they get painted. I had a play with my temp sensor on the painted panels in front of the infra red heater, 22 degrees on the surfaces that were 90 degrees to the lamp, 38 degrees at the bottom of the panels and 50 degrees at the top of the panels - that should cure them very nicely No photos as they look the same as last years  605.5 hours. |
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Today I abandoned Phils car and did a bit on mine!! I bought myself some upgrade speakers for the Pop. It currently only has two rear side panel speakers, but I'm fitting two extra ones as well. These are to fit in the overhead dashboard.  Some computer aided design gave me templates to work from.  I'd love to show you how I used a holesaw to cut the holes, but unfortunately none of mine were the right size so it was good old fashioned chain hole drilling, looks like an old telephone (for those old enough to remember them);  And after some time it looked like this. I was not happy with the screw clips provided, so changed them out for 4mm steel rivnuts. The reason for that is the speakers sat on top of the clips so stood off the panel a bit, they sit flush with the rivnuts. Or at least they will do as I don't have the tool for them at home, I'll have to borrow it from work on Tuesday.
 All fitted and wired in to the rest of the loom.  Happy with that. These are 4" speakers - I've mounted them in such a way that if I want to upgrade to the 5" versions they will still fit/look ok.  Once that was done I did do a little on Phil's car. I tidied up a bit of filler I had added to give more definition around the O/S boot hinge recess and refitted the bootlid in preparation for grinding back the gutter edges all around the lid to give a uniform gap of about 3mm for the boot weather seal. That will be a tedious job to do  for sure. Happy with the gaps around the lid though, not perfect - but they never were from new and this is far better than std.  606.5 hours. |
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That's a lot of hours even at mates rates! I wish I had the forethought to try and log the hours on my project  |
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Yep, it's 15 working weeks at 40 hours a week. Not bad considering its in my spare time in just over 9 months.
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Todays job was to replace the 6" speakers in the back of the pop for the new Kenwoods & refit the roof panel, should only take an hours or so, right? Wrong! Refitted the roof dash & fired up the head unit - all went well for about 5 seconds until it went into 'protect mode' It said to check speaker wiring - which I know was correct.I started by removing the cables from the speakers - still no dice. Instruction manual said to use the 'reset' button. Still no dice. So then I ended up chopping the cables off again, still did not work.  Google is a wonderful thing - I found a youtube video showing another way of resetting it, which worked! yay!!...................................for 5 seconds, boo!!! Repeat this about 6 times, because, you know, it might magically fix itself if you keep doing it  In the end I removed the head unit & took it to bits, cant break it any more after all. Hmmm......it's all PCB and not much else. Blew it out with an air line anyway as I did wonder if any swarf from the hole cutting may have got into it? Some debris & dust came out & I put it back together. Put it all back in the car and still in protect mode. Followed the Youtube advice again and....................it worked, Yay!! and it stayed working  Quickly bodged the speaker cables again to check it still worked with them connected, all good. I guess the swarf theory must have been right? Sooooooo........it all came out again & I had to re-do all the joints and wiring again that I had done yesterday. Then I started on the rear speakers, straight swap for size, but of course the fixings were in a different place. I wont bore you with the details, but it did include dropping clips down the wing and having to strip half the car to retrieve them amongst other things. So, an hours job ended up taking most of the day *sigh* On the plus side, the stereo is now much louder for less volume level, and the bass is richer that the old Vibe speakers. Just need to fit the rivnuts tomorrow and that project is done.
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Yes I remember the scenario well, my dad would come home from work saying he had a little job for me on his car. He said “it will only take ten minutes” now he needed the car for work the next morning. So there we were in the garage till around midnight doing this “ten minute job”. These things never go to plan, all the best for the New Year, Norman
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I started trimming back the bootlid gutter tonight to get a uniform gap all around for the boot seal, but I could not get the top right corner of the bootlid to sit flush to the body, it was too flat and did not really curve enough to match. I had hoped originally that the boot catch would pressure it enough to pull it tight, but the bootlid was just too flat. I thought I had finished the fibreglass work.........  Mr angry grinder had to come out to play again, 2 slits were made to allow the bootlid to flex;  The areas were ground out and the top section has got the first section of glass bonded back in, suitably bent into a curve with special weights  while it sets.  While that was curing I started stripping the old paint off the bonnet catch mechanisms, I've left them in a thinners bath to hopefully dissolve the paint in the areas the stripping wheel cannot get to.  608.75 hours |
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Tonight started good but ended up being really annoying. Started by stripping and getting the bootlatch to work and fit properly. It was about 4mm off axis to the boot latch and although it worked it was stiff and stressing the latch fixings. A bit of finessing the latch edges (grinding off,lol) and reshaping it a little got it lined up nicely and the boot latching smoothly. I then saw that the split I had put in the side of the lid and bonded up was in fact not correct and needed to be split open again to get the correct curvature. Wth this split open I ground the rest of the gutter edge to get a nice 2.5-3mm gap all around the lip.  Bootlid sits nicely flush to the body on the corner now  So, lets glass that split back up again. I had used the full 5Kg tin of Phils's resin on all the previous repairs, but I did have an unopened 1Kg tin spare that I can use instead. I got it out of storage and opened up the seal..................and it's set solid Kind of suprised about that as I've had opened 5kg tins on the shelf for over 10 years and it's still been usable. It's a real pain as I wont get the new resin delivered before next Tuesday so it's a major hold up on that job as I was hoping to get the bootlid finished and possibly painted by the end of the weekend. 610.5 hours.
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is the bonnets were flatted back and 2 more coats laid on them. While they were drying I started working on the boot hinges, smoothing the edges off and going over the chrome lightly with the flap wheel to get rid of the rust and to give a key for the epoxy primer when they get painted.
for sure.
while it sets.