292 hours, 37 days down, 53 to show time.
Craig worked on blocking out body some more, I spent several hours chasing parts, and then got 3 of the four trims rings roughed out for the roll bars. I also installed a few more lights in shop and put together the fan vent system for the paint booth.
Here is picture of the front end getting some block sanding done. also see my home made fan vent system. I will place house hold furnace filter in front of the fans to catch most of the overspray from getting on the blades, this also prevents bugs from flying into the shop when we are not running the fans. I will open the back door of the shop which goes into the area where the sand blaster and wood stove is at. I will build big fire in wood stove to heat the air which the exhaust fan will pull into the paint area. The back door will also get furnace filters placed in it to prevent dust and bugs from getting into the paint room. The three fans allow for lot of volumne but do not create turbulence.
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Here are a couple pictures of the roll bar trim rings. I got the insides roughed out fine, now to shape the outsides and then drill and tap them. we want studs in the so no screws show from the top side.
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Craig discovered the PCL poly primer that I use is much better than the evercoat polyprimer that he uses. I had a quart of left over pcl from ramble last year and sprayed it on the car and we then sprayed on a quart of the evercoat. today he started block sanding and fell in love with the pcl and I had to go buy a gallon more so we could abandon the evercoat. It is about 20% more expensive but worth every penny of it.
No word yet on being accepted in the autorama. Surely our past history will assist them in deciding to accept our application.
later Ray