Hey Twodear, I loved the film too, apart from the overt "ockerness". Even as a musician though the score kind of left me cold, it has an overbearing wartime propo feel to it that I can't stand. The song "Waltzing Matilda" is mawkish on a good day and everytime they cranked it up there I cringed. I have always encouraged people to read "The Dead Lake" as a great account of the record attempt, that film was a strange and beautiful portrayal of the brutal nature of the environment out there. Campbell really was a smooth piece of work wasn't he?......he had persuasive powers for sure, 2 million quid in 1963-4 was an astonishing amount of money. I do know though after talking to people who were peripheral to the effort back then that there was a current of ill feeling, that Campbell persisted, and succeeded is a credit to him. The winner as they say, takes the spoils, those who are still grinding axes can at will, Campbell of course paid the ultimate price for his ongoing pursuit.
Good to hear that the fire at Pomborneit wasn't too severe.
On the topic again.
We bought a flat tandem trailer last week. It is black, that will change, you couldn't stand near it in 40 degree heat, let alone touch it, I'll paint it whit. I have a 4&1/2 tonne winch which I'll mount and then set about making the ramps flush with the deck, and working out how to attach all the storage we need. Last year was the first time we've used an open trailer and frankly the car was the cleanest it has been so that is how this trailer will stay for the time being.
Last weekend I went about repairing some of the damage that the tail of the car suffered when I dropped it from the tow truck in 2011. It wasn't immediately obvious but it left a small gap in the top of the bodywork where the tail joined the top of the cowl. You can see it here, just ahead of the rear wheels....
I measured the height of the gap as 11mm, did a little head maths and decided two 4mm pleats should do it, I scribed lines and then pleats that went from 4mm to 0 over 350mm, we cut them out with a 1mm wheel and the pulled it all together with a ratchet tie down around the body, here is one side.....I used a mig, argon and 1mm wire
It all came together nicely.
The week before we built the raised height rocker covers we need for the taller posi-locks, with the tight space under the cowl the original plan of just lifting the whole cover wasn't going to work so I just cut the centre out and used 2mm plate to raise it about 20mm.
A few weeks before that I got involved in some earthworks with the radius rods, this cooked up a little bit of agro from a few fronts. Structural integrity and aesthetics were the main complaints. These items are really only subjected to compression forces. I cut them and added a piece of 25mm OD 3mm wall seamless pipe inside them and then a piece of 10mm plate as a spine. It was necessary for two reasons. In order to comply with the scrutineers demands for 300mph tyres since we crossed the 200mph barrier we had to change from 26 to 25 inch tyres, that meant lowering the front axle by half an inch, that brought the tie rods into conflict with the radius rods, then I decided I finally wanted the tie rods to hide behind the axle for aero reasons. The only way to achieve that and keep the radius rod attachments on the midline was to scallop them.
I still have to paint the car, I also have to get new decals I think....Rev, you got the file for them?
Cheers
Dr G
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