All Alloy Cup progress

[Alan]

Might have to wait a while.

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Perfect age Alan.

Bill - my father in law worked at Barr and Stroud in thermal optics/imaging - Ken Fraser, he knew Tom’s father who also worked there...

[AllAlloyCup]

Hi Ruairidh

I worked in the Physics Lab along the corridor
from Thermal imaging. I was there on one of the first days they got
An IR imager working. They set it up in another corridor
that the office girls used and it gave some interesting results.

As I had a bod toothache that day I became a guinea pig
and you could see clearly where the bad tooth was !

When these guys had some spare time they would build themselves
an electron microscope!! I worked on EMI 2001 colour cameras and later
when I was at BBC at TVC , White City, my manager had one of the colour
splitter blocks I used to test!!!! On his desk as a paperweight!

Bill G

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Took some photos of the non standard Hardy Spicer

Propshaft and gearbox, both now installed!

Bill G
Aka AllAllloyCup

[AllAlloyCup]

Perhaps halfway through this list I might get to start car!

Subject: Jobs 

Car to do list

Fix petrol tap, and fuel filter
Grind and paint exhaust manifold, fit
Fix valve chest cover with O-ring cord
Fix brake light switch and wiring 
Wire umbilical to control panel
Attach steering drag link 
Install windscreen glass(wiper motor holes?)
Paint: throttle shaft, toe board etc refit 
Sort out pedals and gearbox top
Test petrol tank and refit ( slosh if need be?)
Make and fit oil pipe
Make and fit handbrake gaiter
Adjust brakes refit undersills
Fit engine in chassis 
Fit carburettor and linkages
Make and fit exhaust down pipe 
Refit flitches, cow horns and wing supports
Rewire remaining cabling
Fit new battery cable and battery
Finalise floorboards,TransTunnel and seating
Check starter and dynamo and fit
Time engine with old distributor 
Refit radiator etc and bonnet 
Nickel plate door catches etc, 
Refit doors
Fix headlamps
Attach all wings, side lamps and flasher
Fill all fluids and attend to all greasing points
Finish instruments
Make carpets
Order hood material Make tonneau
Commission hood and sidescreens

Regards

Bill G

[David Stepney]

Hmm! Running by tea-time then?

[AllAlloyCup]

Hope to get most of the assembly jobs done by
early June, motoring in earnest in July?

Hood may need to wait a bit though.

Other things may intrude though as I have
DIY list as well!!!

DIY list

Fix Beach Hut roof
New steps and wall to lower garden
Finish rear patio stone laying.... etc, etc

Otherwise I’ve lots of time on my hands!

Regards

Bill G

[Duncan Grimmond]

75% finished with another 80% to go then...

[AllAlloyCup]

Hi Duncan

So speaks the expert .... :-)

Bill G

[AustinWood]

As they say, 80% of the job takes 20% of the time.

[AllAlloyCup]

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Engine now installed without too much trouble.
Plus new battery has found a home under the seat.

Ruairidh dropped by to see how I was getting on.

Sun out so car work suspended and off to the Beach Hut to
do some Spring cleaning!
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Regards Bill G