So this weekend I spent a lot of time with the family, and experienced fall to it's fullest.
I have to share these pictures from that, because they're gorgeous!
But yesterday I did get an hour free of doing anything and went outside to potter around, and ended up making a start on the aluminum side panels.
The size of these sheets was almost too good of a deal to miss out on from the Metal supermarket remnants section. They were marked at $8 per sheet, but the lovely girl there sold them both to me for $4...total!
The little blue nubbing on the side is a poly bushing for the exhaust hangar to sit on:
This is 0.40ga pre-whited 3003 aluminum.
Homemade locost metal break:
I have not yet decided what to do down here:
Here you can see that the aluminum is 1" too tall for the chassis (you can just make it out at the bottom of the sheet) I will trim this eventually.
Also I have to leave breathing room for the small little radiator on the side, then it will be sheeted up to the front, however I figured it would be wise to wait for the exhaust to turn up before working on that.
Take a step back to look at the sides:
Pretty happy with that so far.
Then these showed up on my facebook "for sale" section. The lady said she was sure they are 15.5" overall width, I had to ask her a few times to remeasure this dimension, she said she would get back to me, but for $25 a piece with covers (not shown here) I don't mind possibly picking them up and giving them the chop a little:
Sliced Roma tomatoes on garlic buttered toast. Simples....and quick.
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