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And for my next trick…

… I will saw this attractive young woman in half. Well, I will in a minute but I need to explain why first.

The thing is, I wanted to check the steering rather more carefully, and perhaps change the routing of the column a soupçon. In order to do that, I needed to check how it fitted under the bodywork. The problem is, I had to do lots of faffing around to get the central portion to fit over the cage; for example to allow the front hoops of the cage to stick through the bodywork, and also to allow the steering column to poke through the front of the central bodywork section. You can see both of these in the photo on the right.

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Rolling and tumbling

I’ve finally managed to get the roll cage tubing, as seen in the picture. Astonshingly, it’s taken me about three months to get this. I went to the suppliers that Jeremy recommended, Tube Engineers of Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, as that seemed sensible. Since then I’ve had a long stream of excuses and woffle including “he’s in France”, “we’re setting the machines up for 38mm next week”, “oh, I’d forgotten about you”, “I’ve lost your email” and “we’re notching the tubing”. The last is special because I didn’t ask them to do this. In fact, a selection of the tubes arrived notched in a useless manner (how could they know what angle I needed them notched at?), what’s more, the front hoop (the only difficult bit because that’s the only bent tube) arrived a different length from what my drawing and my email specified.

However, I’ve been waiting so long I decided to just work around the problem which I think I can. I certainly shan’t be putting any business their way in the future though.

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Weekending

I’ve managed to spend a bit of time on the car this weekend. First of all, I wanted to be really sure that the diff was going to fit properly. So, I cut out some supports for it, following the CAD model that I showed you a short while ago. However, in an advance on the normal materials technology I used hardboard rather than aluminium for the diff support plates. It’s much easier to cut out, so it’s bound to be a better choice.

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