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19th August 2019, 22:21
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Tribute Owners Lunch / Tea Meet
Tribute in F font pic 6.jpg
Owners Meeting
Saturday September 7th
Lunch at The Pelican Inn
Froxfield, on the A4 between Hungerford & Marlborough
www.pelicaninn.co.uk
We are welcome and booked from 11am with lunch at around 12.30pm
There are two spacious car parks, where we can have a drink and talk Tribute Cars.
Afterwards you / we can drive round a bit of Hampshire to the
Silk Mill at Whitchurch
for tea, overlooking the river Test, last orders 3.30pm.
www.whitchurchsilkmill.org.uk
If you are interested the Pelican Inn also has a room or two overnight on the Friday and or Saturday. We are staying there Friday night.
Please let me know if you will attend or at least think about it.
REPLY to Kidge on his site
OR The Owners site
OR PM me
OR email kidge.elder@btinternet.com
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20th August 2019, 20:56
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Molleur - It is a real shame that you have had to take so many backwards steps with this build.
So, hopefully, this is the last major fix required and it is all forward progress from here.
Good luck, Paul.
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20th August 2019, 21:14
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Thanks Paul,
It's coming along. Have to make an FRP headliner part.
Experimenting with release methods. PVA attacks the Flex Seal bedliner that was sprayed inside everything. Cling wrap from the kitchen cabinet works but does not "cling" to the bedliner stuff.
experimenting now with some spray adhesive to hold it in place.
It will get there!
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21st August 2019, 06:18
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Try brown parcel tape. Cheap, will stick to pretty much anything and fibreglass resin won't stick to the shiny side. Does tend to leave wrinkles in the surface though, so moulded items do need more finishing.
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21st August 2019, 10:31
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Tried some clear parcel tape, resin went through it. I'll pick up some brown and give it a go.
Weather has been rain all day, almost everyday for weeks now. Holding me up a bit.
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21st August 2019, 12:51
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+1 for Mr T’s brown parcel tape suggestion.
I’ve used that on everything from a yoga mat…
To cereal box cardboard…
To modelling mesh…
If the spray adhesive doesn’t work, perhaps some duct tape might?
( Joined in circles with the sticky side out. )
If you are making a headliner, can you put the bodyshell (carefully/supported) on its roof?
That way, the weight of the fibreglass matting going on will help keep everything in place.
Good luck, Paul.
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21st August 2019, 15:53
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plan is to invert the body. have stands made to support it.
I'll figure it out. The brown parcel tape is proving difficult to find here.
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21st August 2019, 16:31
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If you get really stuck, PM me your address and I send a roll (or two) in the post to you.
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21st August 2019, 17:05
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Much appreciate the offer Paul, but I'll continue to search here.
Which brand do you use?
The postage to the USA would be several times the cost of the damned tape!
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21st August 2019, 22:36
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21st August 2019, 22:54
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Paul, John,
Thanks for the input. Finally found a tape that works.
local Walmart had it (like your Asda stores). Tested and works well.
I only need around 600 feet of the stuff.
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22nd August 2019, 14:24
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Asda isn't like Walmart because they haven't got a gun and ammo isle !
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22nd August 2019, 15:21
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucky@LeMans
Asda isn't like Walmart because they haven't got a gun and ammo isle !
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so true!
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6th September 2019, 17:27
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Update
Body is now completely removed without damage. Getting loose from the bonding compound required a lot of patience and carefully applied heat. A precision putty knife, reshaped and razor edged was used.
Next task is to await the rear panel that fastens to the bumper support (thanks Chris, again), I was sent the wrong one and it was never used by my "friends" when they bonded the body on.
Meanwhile, I am taping ( thanks for the lead on parcel tape) up the inner roof section to make a headliner hard part. Samples of vinyl on the way.
Delayed by the hurricane, it remained just far enough off-shore to cause no damage here.
I am trying some cross laced chrome true wire wheels 15X7 and plan to run with 205/70/15 tires. May have to do a pie cut at the rear. Easier with the body off anyway.
Had the body on and off several times now as my working space is limited. The temperature right now is a problem. 39 degrees C at the moment. Have to perform my 'glassing outdoors.
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7th September 2019, 22:08
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small update today:
had the body supported on stands upsidedown. Five hours to
grind away (most effective method) the Flex Seal crap that had been sprayed on. It is rubberised and nothing sticks to it.
The remaining bonding material simply peeled away. FRP won't stick either!
As I had previously filled the rood vent, the inside "bump" was also cut away and a layer of 'glass matt applied. Because I'm using the Grassbank rear screen, the back of the roof section on the body had lost much rigidity. Another layer of matt on an area a foot wide right across the body and onto the cheeks really stiffened it up. Back on to the headliner fabrication tomorrow.
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8th September 2019, 13:13
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Definitely moving forward
Good news
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8th September 2019, 16:20
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Waiting for a little shade this afternoon before beginning the headliner part. 100 Deg. F right now.
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9th September 2019, 14:46
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done! some pics
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11th September 2019, 14:07
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Jack - It is such a real shame that you had so much extra work to un-bond the body shell.
Hopefully, this is the last of the backward steps you will have to take.
Glad to see the parcel tape trick worked, as your headliner looks good.
( If a little sideways. )
Good luck, Paul.
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11th September 2019, 14:59
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Thanks Paul, waiting for a rear bumper support shelf from Chris to set the rear body height.
I'll have to pie cut the rear fenders to fit my wires, only about one-inch. More grinding I'm afraid.
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