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Ben Lipman Goo Roo NT Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
Posts: 2087 Reg: 04-2006
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Friday, April 23, 2010 - 08:05 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
I spent the day chasing down a gas bottle and now have myself an account at BOC and 4 cubic metres of Argoshield light in my shed. I welded up a bottle holder off the side of my tool box/welding trolley and then got everything set up for proper MIG welding. I ran a couple of test welds and was very impressed with the way they came out.
I set about welding all the mounting feet together and then doing the final shaping to get them to fit into my floor. I managed to get one of the main hoop feet into the car before the missus dragged me into dinner with some stern words about cutting and grinding on a Friday night...
When she isn't looking I'm gonna sneak out and start stripping the interior (again) in preparation for going nuts over the next few weeks. I am going to do a bit of stitch welding whilst I am at it. I figure I'll ruin the interior paint anyway.
Once I have something interesting to look at then I'll post some pictures. At the end of the day it is going to look like Andrew's except not blue. I may change the interior paint colour whilst I am at it. Silver might be a nice contrast to the black external colour.
I am getting the feeling this is going to get out of hand, as I am already eyeing off the windows and screens for a swap to perspex. After all taking them out is going to make it easier to weld and paint...
