Wing mirror brace bar repaired and lower seal channel repair welded in.
Entries by Jim Ley
O/S cab door repairs
Made a start on the O/S cab door this week. It’s in slightly better condition than the other side, apart from the bottom which is in a terrible state: Schofields repair cut down and clamped in while I repair the brace bars: Both bars repaired: And made a start on the repair for the wing […]
N/S cab door – Inner frame bottom complete
After many, many, many hours I’ve finished the welding on the bottom of the inner frame for the N/S cab door. I had this final gap to fill where the frame curves round to join the door skin: Quite a fiddly bit to make, I ended up doing it in a few bits, but the […]
Lower corner done now. Nearly there with this door (sick of the sight of it tbh!)
Folded up another repair for the bottom of the door tonight. Cleaned up and etched the wing mirror brace bar.
More door repairs this morning and out for lunch at the old thatch. Just the bottom corner left to do which will be fun.
Style line finished.
N/S cab door – further repairs
Carrying on with repairing the N/S cab door over the last few days. I needed to rebuild the style line that the door card sits inside as the PO had made it out of filler. This is the gap I needed to fill. And here is the first repair all welded in and dressed. Much […]
One corner repaired. Now for a BBQ as I’m a exhausted!
Cab doors – Corner repair
A good test of my fabrication skills and a chance to use my new sheet metal machine recreating the corner section of the cab doors. I made it in two parts. The section that forms the seal channel starts life as a sheet of steel: After a bit of folding the piece turns into this: […]
