Author Archives: AdrianM

Resin, Resin Everywhere!

Posted on November 23, 2009 by AdrianM

Not much to say today except I got a couple of layers of gelcoat and CSM laid up on the buck for the  side pod ducts, as you can see the under-layer of gel is orange, and (as you can’t … Continue reading →

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Yet More Mouldings

Posted on November 21, 2009 by AdrianM

Many hours today again spent breathing styrene… which I have to say I rather like. :-) Firstly we made another floor in the right hand side mould. This time, instead of using ply as the longitudinal stiffeners we hadded two extra … Continue reading →

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New Floor Mk1

Posted on November 18, 2009 by AdrianM

So having made a mould, it was time to make a floor.  The plan was gelcoat,tissue, 1 layer of chopped strand mat, reinforcing strips of 6mm ply, and then a final layer of woven rovings. All laid up with polyester … Continue reading →

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Not So Rolling Road+ Keeping the rain off.

Posted on March 5, 2009 by AdrianM

The car spent last week on a little holiday at Power-tec to get rolling roaded. A scheduling mix up meant that they weren’t expecting me, but they could fit me in if I left the car with them – Top … Continue reading →

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Nice to be behind the Wheel Again

Posted on February 19, 2009 by AdrianM

Nice to be behind the wheel again! After the snow and ice and general tribulations over getting the car ready…. or at least all one uniform colour and ready, I can report that we had a very successful day. and … Continue reading →

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The Big Tidy + Extra Cooling

Posted on February 12, 2009 by AdrianM

This saturday Dunc and I spent half the day clearing the garage of 1000 variable types of sh*… erm rubbish. Duncan felt that the occasion of my work bench being clear occurred so infrequently that it deserved recording for posterity. … Continue reading →

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Avoiding the Cowpats!

Posted on February 8, 2009 by AdrianM

If I may quote Edmund Blackadder “The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the Devils’s own satanic herd!”. Well the path of this respray seems to have been long and arduous and indeed strewn waist deep … Continue reading →

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Rapidly Running out of Time :-(

Posted on February 7, 2009 by AdrianM

Well we are now only 6 days or so away from the first outing at Snetterton and the liberal “flump” of snow delivered to Eastern England has really screwed my timetable up. At some times this week I couldn’t even … Continue reading →

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