20-02-2020, 11:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-02-2020, 11:47 PM by Mark Atkinson.)
Hi Eric, It is interesting how similar the approach is/was! Of course given that this is an aircraft covering method, it is very light weight. The practice on aircraft is also to make a linen bag with stitched seams, I chose not to do this on Slippery as it is pretty clear in the period pictures the they chose the more direct and less finessed option I described above, If I remember correctly they called it 'bed sheeting', but that may be wrong!
All the best, Mark
Thank you to all for your kind comments.
I have gone ahead with the Castrol D140 for the rear axel and today for the first time drove the car, amazingly everything worked, albeit, the Mag timing is way out, I have given up on the BLIC, which appeared to be timed perfectly, but just ran out of spark at 4000 rpm. I have put in a Scintilla M4, which hopefully will work better, but, I am rather struggling to make it work properly at the moment.
The plan for the car is to slowly work her up to be ready for Curborough in early May.
It was fantastic to see her out of the garage and in the sun, my first opportunity to stand back and appraise her from a distance as a finished car.
After all the challenges of making the cockpit large enough, she proved to be easy to drive and surprisingly comfortable.
It is a funny old world, sometimes with happy coincidences in it; whilst manoeuvring her on the drive, our Postie arrived with her shiny new Buff Form freshly approved by the VSCC Eligibility Committee, how is that for timing?!
All the best, Mark.
All the best, Mark
Thank you to all for your kind comments.
I have gone ahead with the Castrol D140 for the rear axel and today for the first time drove the car, amazingly everything worked, albeit, the Mag timing is way out, I have given up on the BLIC, which appeared to be timed perfectly, but just ran out of spark at 4000 rpm. I have put in a Scintilla M4, which hopefully will work better, but, I am rather struggling to make it work properly at the moment.
The plan for the car is to slowly work her up to be ready for Curborough in early May.
It was fantastic to see her out of the garage and in the sun, my first opportunity to stand back and appraise her from a distance as a finished car.
After all the challenges of making the cockpit large enough, she proved to be easy to drive and surprisingly comfortable.
It is a funny old world, sometimes with happy coincidences in it; whilst manoeuvring her on the drive, our Postie arrived with her shiny new Buff Form freshly approved by the VSCC Eligibility Committee, how is that for timing?!
All the best, Mark.