Armour Dreams

[Jonathan Moore]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

From Bob's post ....

"Tilting that 65 pound bucket will be an exercise in itself......."

Apparently I misunderstood. I'll delete the misleading entry.

Mike

Evening Mike,

It's no problem, I thought it was my fault.

Hopefully these two pictures show the angle of the face formed by the vertical pillars.

Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

Thanks Bob, I think that I am going to need all the advice that I can get on this one.

Evening All,

I thought that as I was making moulds, I might as well make the mould for the suspension arm radius bump stops.

[Jonathan Moore]

The 7 larger holes are there to allow the polyurethane to coat both sides of the steel retention bracket and bond through the holes. Hopefully it will work, tomorrow morning I shall find out if it has.

Jon

[David Dunlop]

Is there much off gassing from those items as they cure, Jon? Will your shop end up being mouse free for a while?

David

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening David,

The two items that I have done so far are degassed with a pump next door in the vehicle area, which is much bigger and not heated, then I get out and return in the morning. The road wheels will be slightly different as I can't degas once the polyurethane has been poured into the mould. As for noxious gases, I don't stick around to find out but judging by the number of mice that I have caught where the vehicles are stored, it doesn't appear to be a problem.


Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening,

And the results are in...…...It looks pretty good to my eye, a bit of fettling when it's cured but on the whole I am pleased with it. There was a bit of leakage due to a small gap between the base of the upright and the base in one area but now that the resin has filled the gap it won't happen again.

[Jonathan Moore]

You can see in this picture the line of the retaining bracket and that the resin has coated both sides.

Thank goodness, success.

Jon.