Striking the right balance...
Part of me would love to spend the whole day working on the car in the sunshine.
But I'd rather the build took longer than miss out on family stuff and we had a family lunch 'al fresco'.
I promised to play badminton in the garden after the next job on the car.
I decided to grind the bonding paste off the door skins as it was a simple, if very messy, job.
Door Skin #1
Before:
After:
Door Skin #2
Before:
After:
Now given the fact our washing lines were full, I couldn't risk covering them in dust.
So I was working around the side of the Summer House which ended up looking like this.
I also used myself as a dust barrier and ended up looking like someone from "Rent-a-ghost".
Unfortunately the badminton required me to go up a ladder and prune a tree.
( Something that has been on my to do list for a while.
Next job was to move the rear frame / floors back out of the way for the night.
However I decided to do one quick job on them before I covered them up.
Yesterday I had used the last drops of the resin to "stuff" some chopped matting into two corners where the floor met the frame.
To be honest, is looked a bit of a mess.
So I mixed up some fibre glass filler and smoother the whole thing out on both floors.
While that was drying, my final job of the day was to turn these off cuts...
Into these brackets to fix the door skins to the body shell.
Then it was time to pack everything away in time for dinner al fresco.
( Eating outside, twice in one day? Very continental for N.W. London.
)
Peepsy put a nice post up on his Tribute build about balances the kit & "normal" life.
( WCA did something similar. )
Whilst I keep saying that this build will take as long as required.
Occasionally, the sheer volume of work still to do does get to me at times.
So I will stress the positive, I spent time with my family today in glorious sunshine.
Plus the car is closer to the finish line now, than it was at the start of the day.
So a good result all round.
Take care, Paul.
