Hi All
Its that time again !
Today was a good day in the timeline of the restoration, the chassis has come home !! for good this time, I left around 7.30am this morning to pick it up from the Galvanizes/P-coaters...
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So I loaded it up, swung past Alex's to say hi on the way home and made the trip back, its now safe back in my garage, having looked at the pics tonight, i didn't realise how close the grey I have chosen was to the original colour, the only difference being its a very subtle metallic flick in it and is very slightly darker than original...
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One of the best things i like is that the original moth eaten chassis number plate has survived the process and should now last forever ...
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So who says you cant polish a turd !!!
In the mean time since my last post before today i have done a few other jobs too, all of the powder coated parts that i pictured before has mating surfaces which cant be p coated, so i masked all these up and painted them with cold zinc galvanize spray...
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I've also refurbed some other small parts, which will no doubt continue as i start putting things back together..
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And I've had a rather large box of new stuff arrive
(thanks Arran
)
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and I've had a clear up and arrangement of new and p-coated parts to try and get things going, I have already pressed new bushes in the rear arms and new wheel bearings are already pressed in too..
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So hopefully work continues fairly quickly and things will start coming back together now
Have a great weekend all