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Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
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Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 08:30 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
Nah,
I'll keep ringing them and annoying them. The guy that makes the harness is some bloke they bring in, not permanent staff. Once the harness is made, it is all down hill from there. I just get the feeling that while the car is not parked there under their feet, they are forgetting about it.
I have made an inner skeleton from the mould. The door latch goes in nice and easily, but the hinge end is a pain in the arse, because it uses bolts that screw into nuts welded to the door frame. I need to make something up, like some metal strap with nuts welded to it and then glass that into the door. The trick will be getting it spot on, so the hinge lines up.
Might have to make a jig up for both the left and right.
I am unable to weigh the skeleton, but it is more than 2kg,and quite stiff. I might be able to get away with less glass next time. I was concerned I needed it to handle the hinge etc so the ends and bottom got a few layers. I am going to do a single layer of 450gsm matt for the skin when I figure out the hinge mounts. I doubt I'll hit the 5kg target weight, maybe closer to 6kg, and that is without hardware. If I am exactly 1:2 with my glass resin ratio, I might be close assuming the skeleton doesn't weigh much more than 3kg.