Wet n miserable day here.
Wet n miserable here today, fine mizzle non stop :(:(, just makes it hard to work out in it, what to do[bighmmm] well a knock on the front door a young fella asking if I needed to go out ?? as they needed to lift the cover off the sewer sub main out front, now I have been here for almost 3 decades and have never seen it lifted yet, poor camera ;) look at the cockies down there!!!!, where's the surface spray.
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anyway then they wanted to look down the other one in the carport, well I said you can look with your eyes, but it will take me about 2 hours at least to move 9 vehicles, they were gob smacked, they enjoyed looking at the vehicles especially the Series 1 as it's still down to it's bare bones.
After that excitement I still needed something to do, so I fitted the freshly painted headlight buckets back into the rad/supp panel, they look neat, but the flash has reduced the impact of the gloss black paint
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it's still mizzling so back into the garage, and working on a minor fuel leak on the carburetor on my 109 bloodbox, anyway cheers Dennis:angel:
1st coat of Deep Bronze Green.
It has taken me most of the day today to prepare the bulkhead side that had not been painted in DBG, and with my T.A. absent ATM in Qld, it was a struggle to get it out of the garage and moved 50 feet and lifted n secured to the saw horses:(;), but I managed, just as well swmbo doesn't frequent this site LOL otherwise I could be doing it all by myself from here on in:o
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the paint sure does show any imperfections in the panels i.e. buckling etc, I just hope that I haven't missed any areas, as I do have a colour vision problem :(, anyway I suppose I will just have to wait until tomorrow to check if I have missed any spots, now to clean the gun, hose and me, my hair has stuck together at the front from overspray when doing the footwells, cheers Dennis:angel:
While the paint is drying,,.
After cleaning both spray guns and the paint off my hands and arms :( ( I still had a small amount of paint left but the Iwata gun wouldn't pick up, so out with the gravity feed gun, and recoat the fuel pump panel and assorted bolts etc that hold it to the B/head, also painted the cover panel for the hand brake lever and up the inside of the bonnet edges)
Last Monday I purchased 40 1/4"dia x 3/4"L bolts, I needed to reduce the length to 5/8", so a quick turning job, so far I have shortened 22 of them
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I had to stop and water the wife's Bonsai trees and secure her Bantam's for the night, anyway more fun tomorrow, cheers Dennis:angel:
Waiting for the paint to dry.
Not to lose too much productive time, while waiting for the paint to dry/harden on the bulkhead, I though I might as well make a move and put in the remaining C'sk rivets on the side of the tub, and that didn't take long, so the next plan of action was the alloy panel on the door tops.
Just needed to mark the outline off the original panel on the door top, then transfer the panel onto the door top, clamp n drill a hole, insert 3/16" whit gutter bolt, drill another hole, add a bolt etc etc
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that's the LHS done, all holes have had the burrs removed, now to repeat the same on the RHS, then etch prime n paint in DBG, cheers Dennis:angel:
