Wellow Racing HQ. It's a barn.

[Diamond Hell]

Finally getting moving again, after a few weeks of slackness.

I had a bit of a tidy up last week and then gobbed this together to help with the tidying up (bloke tidying up IS burning stuff, isn't it?)



Then Mike (who recently registered on here) and I had a session on Sunday and started covering in the big door frame.  Prior to this I had also scurfed back the door frame and red-oxided the hell out of it, too - so some undocumented and tedious progress. 



It's ply, coach-bolted in place on the outside of the frame through the planking.  This frame with outside border is going to have tongue and groove screwed into the inside of the frame (don't ask, odd parental cosmetic request).  As such it should be good and solid.  With a fair wind on Thursday evening we might even get the big door finished and the smaller one done, too.  Depends on how much drilling gets done - there's a LOT of drilling needed to secure the panels!

[tech1889]

Looks sweet mate.. what you gona use to stop the wind coming under the doors ??

[SoundillusioN]

Looks sweet mate.. what you gona use to stop the wind coming under the doors ??

Dead bodies?


Looking good MR Hell, should be on track for completion before winter then?

[Diamond Hell]

Looks sweet mate.. what you gona use to stop the wind coming under the doors ??

Rubber skirting - old conveyor belts or similar - will be rivetted all round the doors.  This is going to make a huge difference!  We also have a sheet to replace half a missing one on the end of the barn.  I want to get it as draft-proof as possible, just to keep the dust down inside.

[tech1889]

Keep us updated need more pics

[danny_p]

your really on a weather proof mission,  comapred to what we swapped the corrado and the golf engines in

[Diamond Hell]

More done today:



It's the drilling wot takes the time!

Just need to cut down the last bits for the top of the doors and then fit the tongue and groove in the middle (no rush).  More importantly - get the top section closed in.

Yes.  Weather-proof is definitely an aim and then it'll be sink plumbing, fridge etc and the ramp bolted in and powered.

[Diamond Hell]

This attractive piece of work, from last Thursday is the top locking mechanism for the large door.  It's box section, with a captive bolt fitted into the end, with a rotating tubular 'cup' on the end of it, with a handle.

This will slide up and down and lock in the up position, by rotating the handle around, securing the door.

It look a couple of hours to do the work shown above.  It'll probably suck up another couple of hours mounting it to the door, but it's necessary before the doors are finished, because at the moment the top of the main door pulls out quite easily when the bottom is secured - not good for security!

[SoundillusioN]

Ooooo get you and your fabrication skills. Nearly ready for the long winter ahead then.

[Diamond Hell]

This is the Isle of Wight.

There is no long winter here, just a slightly less summery period, when we sometimes have snow.