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PostPosted: September 28, 2018, 12:07 am 
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STEEL battery box?
Hope you will be coating it with more than paint, or using a battery that has no fumes. :!:

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PostPosted: September 28, 2018, 12:46 am 
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RichardSIA wrote:
STEEL battery box?
Hope you will be coating it with more than paint, or using a battery that has no fumes. :!:


Yeah I'll have to treat it so that it'll last longer than the original battery box that was 68 years old and actually thought of reusing it :cheers:

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PostPosted: September 28, 2018, 7:17 am 
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The first cut-out for the battery box was off by an inch?!?!?!?!? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! We just can't have nice things... :mrgreen:

Hell, if that's the biggest boo-boo you have on this build, you obviously ain't trying hard enough!

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Nice job on the latches. That works out to be a little over $35 per hour. Not a bad return for a hobby.

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Professional looking work as usual, Perry.

I hate it when I get things "a little off" myself. I try to measure carefully, and multiple times. But that doesn't help if you measure from the the wrong tick mark each time - duh!

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Oh, I meant to mention a couple of things since you're also an airplane guy, Perry. Some possible things to do down here are:

Borrego Springs has a really nice County airport. There is a dedicated aerobatics area adjacent to it in the desert. Lots of aerobatics professionals come there in the winter to practice (it's all sun, no rain). They have an aerobatics festival there each year (month?) too.

You get guys like this there ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBGVARKK-Bs

Also, these other guys winter over in El Centro (Jan., Feb., Mar.) and develop their new flight routines for the coming year and train new team members. You can see them many days of the week for free. They're fairly decent flyers.

El Centro guys ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSomFB57iQ

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Lonnie-S wrote:
You get guys like this there ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBGVARKK-Bs


Awesome video Lonnie, I had to laugh at myself though. As I was watching the acrobatics I was slamming the sticks on my imaginary radio :oops:
Thanks for the tips

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PostPosted: October 2, 2018, 12:57 am 
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Soooooooooo, went to the shop this afternoon. After many hours of looking and scratching, I decided to separate the body from the frame - again (this will happen many times in this build).
Alas!! I got lucky! I got the old girl turned over on her back and had at her til I was spent. Spent spot welding that is. The floor is coming together for the final time. Some pics,
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How did you turn it over by yourself, Perry?

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Lonnie-S wrote:
How did you turn it over by yourself, Perry?

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Just by grabbing it and rolling it over, it's not a very big car body.

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RE: your battery box being "off" ; I used to do fabrication work for a local firm and squaring up supposedly flat and square boxes was a great deal of my job, done with a nice rubber mallet and a heavy steel table. Catching the planner skipping a production step before welding up boxes that had an inward facing flange which was SUPPOSED to take nutserts meant making up a hand tool and installing eight per box by hand on a couple of hundred of them.....

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PostPosted: October 3, 2018, 8:27 pm 
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Out to the shop for a bit today.
Made some construction paper patterns and cut out some steel. Firewall fabrication is pretty much done, it's upside down but pretty much done.
Then I humbled myself and grabbed a broom and swept the floor because there's no one else to do it.
Next Is refer plates, top hats, then removal of those 3/4" cross pieces I welded in a long time ago to keep the body 1/2 a$$ed square.

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Great progres Perry. On the road by summer at this rate. Your shop is heated isn't?

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benny_toe wrote:
Your shop is heated isn't?

Thanks Larry.
Yep shop is heated, temp here right now is 32*F (0C). Tee shirt weather for sure, even thinking of taking off the summer shorts and putting long pants on.
Seriously though I've only another 2-3 weeks on the build, then we're heading to Desert Hot Springs for 4 months to try and cheat winter here.
That will set me back on the build, but what can you do?

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Sounds like a good plan. The car will be waiting when you get back and you will undoubtedly have some fresh ideas on how you'll proceed. Really looking forward to this being near done.

Enjoy tour winter.

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