Evening all,
Well after a bit of a break I through I better check the garage to see if the project car was still in there, and it was. So after a bit of a sort out in the garage, some new tooIs and a new heater. I then started to have a look at where I was up too. Anyway to cut a long story short I need to enter the “land of the redo”
So what I did not like:
- Headlight mounting bracket. Reason; cannot adjust the headlights in the vertical plane which I think will be handy fitting the headlight units into the bonnet cut outs.
- Single door hinge. Reason; wear to pin/maintenance difficulties.
- Shape of what door skin will look like (once made). The shape is mainly determined by the inner door frame end sections, and it’s to basic and needs to be far more complex in shape and the design needs to flow from the door into lower part of the front wing (air vent behind the front wheel etc.).
However, one of the problems using the English wheel by yourself is you can only wheel relatively small panels. It really needs two people to put a low crown in say a door skin. So to get around this problem I have built a support platform. Its adjustable so as the crown starts to form in the sheet steel you can lower the platform by 1mm or 2mm at a time to keep the panel supported. The surface of the platform top is steel so its steel on steel so low friction, unpainted but I do put a drop of oil on the top to lubricate it but mainly to keep the rust at bay. Also by removing the top sheet it doubles up as a bead roller table.
Now I just need to make something for the car!
