Monday, 29 November 2021

Week 45 - The Build

 I left it last week pondering the shield around the steering column. The gap between the column and the brake pedal is narrow so the shield needs to allow full travel of the brake pedal and full rotation of the steering column and be strong enough to resist a bit of a kicking.

Not so easy  - however using some plastic cups and a lot of masking tape I did manage to make what was a mould for some GRP. Difficult to see in the photo as the cups are transparent!

 

Anyway, here it is being glassed up...

.. it came out of the mould lovely and trimmed up with the angry grinder. The bad news is that it doesn't fit! The mould was quite fragile and I think the weight of the fibreglass must have distorted it!

Quite dissapointing really as it took a week to mess that up. I'm now wondering if I need one at all! A quick survey shows that most cars dont have one..

Onwards.


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Week 57 - The Test

 Got all the paperwork off to register it as a car now to test it as a boat!! Here are a couple of videos and some photos of it in action....