Three months can fly by cant it.
Lots has happened in the last few months, but nothing worth documenting TBH. It's also sad to see that the forum might close at the end of the year, I have switched off my ad blocker for this site, not sure if it will help but at least its something.
I've been travelling a lot for work and was away internationally for nearly the whole of May. The car has been progressing in the background and a major milestone has been achieved, the car has paint on it! I was so excited to see the car I forgot to take photos, lucky my dad was with me and he snapped a few - he's not the greatest camera man but he got a few good ones.
It came up mint, that is straight off the gun and baked, nothing else, now its getting the black satin accents around the windows and then it will be done and back home.
On the mechanical side of things I tried my hand braising with the cut off section of the type 9... what a waste of time that was, lets just say it was back to the drawing board. So i decided to bite the bullet and get a proper Mig welder, before I just had a gasless. I also bought the bits to set it up for Aluminum and had a crack.
Let me tell you that casting is a BITCH to weld, it's SO dirty. I think its come out as good as it can though and should work just fine. Next step is to clean up the welds a bit more, shorted the shaft and then test it. That will be next weekend though. I'll need a new tailshaft sleeve bush too, the welds punched through a little on the inside and distorted it but it's not the end of the world - at least i know it penetrated!
