Looks great Paul!
REALLY wish I'd invested the time/ money/ effort in a rotisserie YEARS ago. Good progress
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Looks well smart Paul
Good question Rich!
Sandra wanted a deep rich red but never saw a car in a colour she liked. So it was off to the local paint shop (Central Car paint in Kettering) to look at some chips. Explained to the very knowledgable you lad that runs it and he immediatley picked a swatch of colours. First one she looked at was it! It goes by the catchy name of B-3-00010.500. No idea what it's for.
It's a xirallic base plus clear.
Xirallicis a pigment made of aluminum oxide platelets covered with titanium oxide that shows a strong glitter effect with a distinct shimmering behavior. It was developed and patented by researchers of the company Merck KGaA in Japan.
Hope that helps!
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Started to cut and polish, only had a short time. This is hand finished, no polisher yet.
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that looks like a nice old fashioned (70's?) colour, which i mean as a compliment as i like it
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Cheers Neil. The lights make it look lighter than it is. It's quite dark in the shadows. I like it as well! Wifey loves it and that's what really matters.
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As I said on the other place Paul, looks great!
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Looks great Paul. That will really pop in the sunshine
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I bought a polisher today. It's helping out somewhat
It's coming on.
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That's dissapointing to hear about the work you had to do on the chop, I paid good money to get that 'professionally' done
So nice to see it in colour after all these years, looks great!
There was nothing wrong with the chop in it's execution. It was the finishing, it did not show until it came down to getting it as good as I could for paint. In the red oxide finish it was not noticeable.
Thanks for the positive comments.
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Now all polished out and looking ok. Next is start on suspension, brake pedals/master cyls while it's still on the rotisserie. Makes life easy for piping up.
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Had a spot of time off this to make an electric power steering column for a mate. Got back into it last week.
I cleaned and painted the brake pedals and mountings and the suspension towers/mount thingys. The suspension mounts were finished in tinted Raptor.
The pedal box is a much modified Triumph Herald (the original base for this when it was built way back in the '80's). In the stock setup the pedals are bushed and have a shaft going through that has e-clips on the end. This results in the bush doing nothing and the shaft turning in the mount, both of which then wear. My solution is stainless steel pins with a lock tab. This makes the bush work as it should.
I bolted the pedals in which also involves the master cylinder mount.
Dropped the master cylinders in just to show how it's set up.
One of the suspension mounts.
Once I get the brake m.c's set up I can start to get brake pipes fitted while it's still on the rotisserie.
Sorry about all the dust!
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A few days ago I prepped the front wishbones and steering column. Got them painted and fitted.
Steering column lower bearing was also fitted.
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Next step was to sort out the rest of the front suspension. I stripped a hub/upright assembly and found that the uprights were corrosion pitted at the trunnion seal face. This is the kiss of death for these as it is why they will break at that point. So I rang Canley Classics only to find that there are no new late style uprights available for two months They do have trunnionless conversions though so I'll have to ponder on those.
In the meantime I have dragged the diff from it's resting place, boxed it up and sent it off to Arrow auto engineering. Oh how they laughed in the Post office when I took that in.
Then decided to start on the sills. These have been a saga. As purchase all those years ago it had fibreglass sills. They were bovine fecal matter. I had a think and decided that steel was best and ordered a pair of sills from a well known panel beater and classic panel maker local to me. They were more fecal matter and sit in my scrap heap rusting gently.
So I cut the glass sills up and tried my first bit of fibreglassing (I should add that this was a while back). I then put them to one side until the day I would finish them off. Finally got there.
And painted.
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