More Bank Holiday pleasure

It never rains, it pours.  How true is that statement. A planned trip out was cancelled due to the weather and saving up for our vacation (Skye's wording) to Florida. So after a morning on the kinect and playing twister with Skye made all the more interesting with the wife not spinning the wheel but pre-determining the movement. it was time to venture to the D&M centre.

If only everthing was this simple!

On the agenda today was, the 1mm curved piece on a foot for the battery box. Using ideas from another builders blog on using aerosol cans to hold the curve and away we go. After a few hours the clamps were removed and the cut-out made.

WOW! what a difference that makes.

Where's Eddie the Eagle?

TA-DA!  Nearly finished foot












The end is nigh!

While the foot was drying, a further section was stuck on the skirt support pieces. This went a whole lot better than the first time with no splits occurring and all of my clamps used up. As the hours rolled by the only pieces left to glue was the final ends.

Looking good

Just to have something else started and not finished, I decided to have a closer look at the excellent Deetoo Skins. As I want the doors to open I started to remove the scrap panels on the outer skin so I can line up the skins and draw around the door frame onto the inner skin. A blunt chisel was used on the tags on the scrap piece to wear the aluminium down so that the scrap could be twisted out. A small pair of side cutters removed the tag which will be filed at a later date.

 Once the skins are lined up and the door frame marked, it will be a case of removing the frame and marking the opening. The worst bit will be dremelling in between the two lines to make the lip for the door to sit on. Gulp! Do I really want opening doors? This will be blogged when I summon up the courage to do it an dwhen I have full use of all 10 digits. The skin does look a bit better with the scrap parts removed though.