Gary,
When I met you at Legends the other week, you mentioned about your cockpit build. Love the photos, you have put a huge amount of time and effort into that, let alone money. Looks great.
Neil
Hi Neil, great to meet up at Legends and thanks for your comments on my project, much apreciated.
Spent some time working on the windshield over the weekend, tidying up and doing some reprofiling. On sunday, decided I have a go at putting some perspex in the windscreen aperature.eah, righty !
Brought some thin perspex with the idea of trying a single sheet to see how things went and if successful, to try and make a sort of double glazed affair to represent the original thick screen. Had no problems cutting it out, made sure I had a new drill bit for drilling the holes and used a very slow speed on the drill, damn near wore my fingers out installing the nuts and bolts and all went well until the final bolt....and that final last quarter turn...
CRACCCCKKKKKKKKK
I wont bore you with details of what I actually said, but it would probably burn its way through 6 feet of asbestos !!. At this point I decided to go and make some lunch...beans on toast with a couple of fried eggs on top to cheer me up. Toast ?...yup....beans ?...yup...eggs...sphericalls (sorry but I decline translate but I'm sure you get the drift !) broke both 'em and then...and then....and then...and then when I went to season the eggs...the bl**dy top of the pepper pot fell off.
I've invented a new snack, the main ingredient is quite simply pepper, all you have to do is add toast beans and egg to taste.
At this point I decided to waive the white flag on anything that required any technical input for the rest of the afternoon and went off and practiced my industrial strength sulk.
Then in the evening, had a massive BBQ and all ended up well.