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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #645 on: September 08, 2020, 03:17:52 PM »
Reminds me of the time my father taught me how to play golf at an early age. Mechanics of the game were a matter of practice but he stressed the mental part even more, especially how to get in a competitors head. Those lessons served me well, not just in golf.

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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #646 on: September 09, 2020, 12:09:01 AM »
The record is a red hat  :wink: both worth celebrating....
With any luck, we will see the G/GL record fall, and the G/FL record as well...
Both are due...  :cheers:
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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #647 on: September 09, 2020, 09:07:55 AM »
Rob, you know luck won?t have much to do with it but you are 100% correct, both G/GL and G/FL records are ripe for breaking. I am just glad to see so many G lakesters chasing those records. 2021 should be an interesting year, if the planets align.

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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #648 on: September 09, 2020, 11:08:30 AM »
Rob, you know luck won?t have much to do with it but you are 100% correct, both G/GL and G/FL records are ripe for breaking. I am just glad to see so many G lakesters chasing those records. 2021 should be an interesting year, if the planets align.

John

That is the luck part of it... we need good salt and good weather.  I have confidence in the Johns.... one of you should take the record...  I'll be running in fuel class.... oh that's the luck part as well... if I'm lucky that record will fall   :-o :roll:
OK, speculation/entertainment time is over... back to the work at hand...
What's going on with that Lakester John?  :cheers:
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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #649 on: September 09, 2020, 03:05:12 PM »
Which John?

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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #650 on: September 09, 2020, 07:30:28 PM »
Quote from: ggl205 lin lol8k=topic=17014.msg333133#msg333133 date=1599678312
Which John?

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You never know it could be Johnboy lol8
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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #651 on: September 09, 2020, 07:41:32 PM »
Or Porta-John?  :naughty
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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #652 on: September 10, 2020, 05:51:36 AM »
That's the problem with Johns - every house has one.
A Bonneville Lakester please barman.
Certainly sir; a lick of salt, a sip of gas and a twist of Lemming. More Lemming sir?
Just a squeeze.

A Squeeze of Lemming it is sir.

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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #653 on: September 12, 2020, 08:25:09 PM »
Know the Chinese equivalent of John Doe?... Hu Dat, :cheers:
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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #654 on: September 22, 2020, 06:17:51 AM »
Working on the chute release; two levers.

Direct action is the solenoid / electrical release.
Indirect is the manual cable to the cockpit ejector seat handle.

The solenoid will happily be pushed / pulled with very little resistance so it will not get in the way of the manual release action.

I should have mocked the door lock release solenoid and tested it - I have made the brackets etc as if it is final - I hope it has enough grunt.
A Bonneville Lakester please barman.
Certainly sir; a lick of salt, a sip of gas and a twist of Lemming. More Lemming sir?
Just a squeeze.

A Squeeze of Lemming it is sir.

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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #655 on: September 22, 2020, 11:33:35 AM »
Levers on little bearings?  Not to worry, the door lock solenoids have quite a bit of grunt to them... Keep up the good work...
it is coming together nicely  :cheers:  :clap
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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #656 on: September 22, 2020, 03:32:31 PM »
Levers on oilite bronze bushes.  8-)
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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #657 on: September 22, 2020, 07:58:46 PM »
That's the problem with Johns - every house has one.

Hey, that's my line!!!

John
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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #658 on: October 06, 2020, 01:57:53 PM »
Work has started on the plug for the body mold - this is a 54" section - I was going to make the complete 360 body mold but then realised hey, make one side and the other is a mirror image so take two out of the mold and you have one section. Next is a plug for the top of the roll hoop / cockpit etc.

Roughly a pair of the pictured sections from the firewall to the front axle and a bit more from the firewall to the rear axle, then things get tapery.

A separate plug and mold for the roll hoop section that becomes a windscreen forward and tapers into the body rearwards. The nose and tail will probably be carved from tricast foam - not sure if I will take a mold or just reverse layup yet.

Obviously making it up as I go.
A Bonneville Lakester please barman.
Certainly sir; a lick of salt, a sip of gas and a twist of Lemming. More Lemming sir?
Just a squeeze.

A Squeeze of Lemming it is sir.

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Re: UK Lakester build G/GL
« Reply #659 on: October 06, 2020, 02:00:24 PM »
Anyone have a 6" square 'off cut' of flat SFI 45.2 foam for a headrest. About 2" thick.

Will exchange notes, Paypal payment, a shiny Lemming Motors teeshirt and cover your postage costs to the UK.
Most of the stuff in the UK is FIA rated, not SFI but I can get the round roll tube SFI 45.1 worms here.
A Bonneville Lakester please barman.
Certainly sir; a lick of salt, a sip of gas and a twist of Lemming. More Lemming sir?
Just a squeeze.

A Squeeze of Lemming it is sir.