Just a little bit of welding today!

Ahh the new school year has begun!! didn't manage more than the 2 full days work on the chassis during the summer holiday, but did manage to squeeze in a bit of cutting and welding in after school today!!

This needs doing on the other side as well!!!
 



Thought I was being clever by grinding the brazed joint back to the original "birds mouth" joint

 

But the weld to the "birds mouth" is not good.....guess I just have to cut that out and weld in new (sigh!)

 

 

So not a lot of progress, but not too bad for an hours tinkering. I have now sourced some new small gauge tubing for the triangulation struts, but have nearly run out of the 1.5" stuff.........Naively I thought that 6m would be enough, but I've pretty much used it all up and haven't even made the new outrigger frames up yet!!! TO EBAY!!!!

 

 

Once all the welding is complete, I think I might have to dig deep and have the whole chassis sand-blasted (sadly its too big to fit in the school's blast cabinet!). It will undoubtedly be expensive, but I think it'll be worth it given the amount of time it would take to treat and remove all the surface rust and dirt and gunk by hand....