Thursday, May 25, 2006

concrete dust

no real progress on the car - apart from finally getting the tie rod ends off the steering rack.... woohoo
I did however get my machine room linked to my vehicle bay (garage) via a nifty piece of controlled violence and a big hammer via the use of an even bigger grinder....
NB - for anyone contemplating cutting concrete without a water cooled blade - don't

it took 3 hours to clean the dust and rubble out of the sheds - the stuff gets every where..... abrasive crap

now have enough room and work flow to do things like fabricate parts without going outside to change my mind... this is important as it hasn't stopped raining since then! (5 days)

finished the cage concept drawings - this is not a simple one and will require a serious reality check by the cage builder - but once you start hanging the seat mounts off the cage tubes and then triangulate stuff to induce the stiffest and safest structure then things tend to get a bit complex - add steering column mounts and stuff like that and its a bit of mish...

next week - more sanding and seam sealing

3 weeks

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