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Old 20th July 2016, 19:41
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Wednesday Continued - Part 3:
Given my failure to sort out the side lights, I wanted to fit something shiny to cheer myself up a bit.

Unfortunately, the "simple" side mirror fitting turned into a bit more work than I was expecting.

I had to trim one of the fixing bolts as I couldn't get it through the body shell via the cut away I'd left in the cockpit wall.

Then the two bolts came out as a very slight angle to each other...



Which made it impossible to fix the mirror into place.

So I drilled a bit of wiggle room into the holes and that seemed to do the trick.



It is currently a bit of an odd fixing arrangement...



Where the bolt is tightened fully into the mirror & then the nut pulls the mirror tight into the body work.

Thankfully, the rear view mirror wind deflector was very straight forward.





The perspex sits a a gentle angle, like so.



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Yesterday, I managed to make a "paste" of suncream, sweat & filler dust, which I rubbed into my eyes on a regular basis.

But today I had to knock off early, or there was a real danger of me ending up with sun stroke, it was so hot out there.

So until next time, take care, Paul.
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