The Brookfields Special

[Howard Wright]

Hi All

With this glorious weather I've ben able to wheel the car out and attack the completed ply shell with a hole saw. Firstly I cut the doors out and then set too with the drill.

I've only put holes in the cockpit area as other areas will be exposed to spray and mud and had they been drilled with large holes would have needed to be skinned internally with more ply.  I will need to skin inside the cockpit but that may be just fabric.

I've also been a bit wary getting too close to the laminated curves and places where I've joined layers of ply together.  However all together I taken more than 1.5 kg off. (measured by weighing the discs cut by the hole saw but not taking into account huge amount of saw dust that was generated). I'm still considering some more smaller holes but I'm not sure how much more weight saving I can make.

Next problem is finding some decent brass hinges.  Because fixing to the edge of the ply would be very weak I need hinges that will fix to the inner face but pivot about the outer edge.  The ply is only 12mm thick so I think I may have to make these.

Cheers

Howard