...the Hopkinton Center for the Arts "Beatles to Bach 2" faculty concert happened. There ensued a couple weeks of practices and setup. We played great.
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After which I was able to return to the Jag Special build, and getting on with fabricating the front upper shock mounts.
Because the G'raj work space is to totally jammed, I spend a lot of time stepping over the front wheels of the Jag Special and looking down at them and their connections to the chassis. During one of those frequent trips, I happened to notice that something looked amiss, like one steering arm was rather closer to the chassis station 2 uprights than the other...
...like this. Driver's side...
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..vs. Passenger side.
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As Can be imagined, this caused no end of freak out. I swore a lot. I mean, I am fairly sure the post record chronicles the care I'd taken in measurement and alignment and lasers overuse and etc. etc. blah blah blah, but seriously? A half inch difference in longitudinal position of the steering arm tie-rod bosses? seriously?
Of course this caused a three-day session of re-measuring EVERYDAMNTHINGTENMORETIMES, from the Zero Datum to well, everywhere which could possibly have affected that steering arm placement.
As an example, UCA mount cross bar tube to Zero Datum...
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...which measured within 1/32 inch end to end. In fact, nothing showed a difference greater than .06, anywhere, so I was somewhat relieved. The logical conclusion is that one steering arm is bent, and I'll remove them both and measure them later.
But, that drama averted, I continued with my top shock mount plans.
With my mockup coilovers in place, I employed the tried and true CAD methodology to create a top shock mount template...
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...and made sure it worked on both sides.
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I then ordered some 1.5 W x 3.0 H .120 wall rectangle ERW and sat back await it's arrival, during which time it snowed.
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And then...
...Et voila ici!
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So I used the CAD template to create a dimensioned sketch of the part...
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For the Jag Special, the build notebook is getting far more use capturing part fabrication, than did the B-3.
And then, by various means, both roughed out two parts, and hit the 12-pic limit.
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And - as I have become so fond of saying - then...