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mnementh:

--- Quote from: mnementh on July 04, 2022, 09:33:31 pm ---On my way back up from the dwagon-cave, I made the mistake of peeking in on the Anniversary Project table...

How the fuck do you get a run in the top of a perfectly leveled table...?    :rant:

mnem
*toddles off to shop finish grits of sandpaper and a sanding block*
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I ordered the "Sanding Discs by the Foot" packet from Amazon... free delivery in aboot a week, but it only cost $11. That's less than a dollar a inch! I know a lot of guys and gals who'd gladly pay that!  >:D

Anyhoo... it has discs from 40 grit up to 1500 grit; so far I've used one 320 grit disc and have all the runs & orange-peel spots smoothed out. Next will be finish pass; I'm thinking 600 grit. Might do it tonight, but likelier tomorrow AM when it's semi-cool out there.

mnem
*toddles off to cook dinner*

Cerebus:
It's usually at this point, the first proper flat sanding, that you find the divot in the middle of the thing that you should have filled and levelled with epoxy before you started. Do not ask me how I know that this is how it goes...

Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: med6753 on July 13, 2022, 08:22:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 13, 2022, 08:09:59 pm ---
Now working on the enclosure - those stains are rather stubborn.


-Pat

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Good luck getting that clean. You might have to resort to spray paint. Might I suggest a shade of blue?  ;D

Papa Smurf's Shade Tree Painting Service ready to help.  :-DD

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LOL - at first I was thinking of painting, but it's starting to come clean with some elbow grease.  Waiting on some UV curing adhesive to try to fix the cracks and glue up/rebuild the broken bosses on the cover (left side of the photo, near the front of the instrument):


-Pat

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 08:55:05 pm ---Being complacent, incompetent, bureaucratic sell outs is our national pastime.

May have been using Mullard smartphones if we weren’t so good at that!

I have this world in my head of a British dystopian parallel 2022 where we had stuff like that with some 1960s anachronistic technology and impracticality applied to it. For example drunk chavs tumbling out of a brown Vauxhall Chevette limousine.

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Or thjis?

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 13, 2022, 08:55:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 13, 2022, 08:31:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 04:39:28 pm ---You may well be right, istr the last stuff made here was the Vivaro van, and they maybe did announce its imminent demise/offshoring. Bloody scandalous is the murder of our car manufacturing industry.

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Most of it actually deserved it.

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Most. I had a Corsa for a couple of weeks as a loaner from the garage a few years back. Horrible car; if you tried to pivot between the accelerator and brake, as recommended by most driving instructors, your foot crashed into the side of the brake and you had to lift another 4-6 inches to get onto the brake - potentially lethal in my opinion. On the other hand I had a Cavalier 2.0 SRi as a company car back in the middle of the 80s and that wasn't bad at all, no real vices, reliable, decent handling compared to most other rep-mobiles, comfortable, nothing special but nothing to really moan about.

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Agreed to a point, the Cavalier was not a good car, it was at best a mediocre one that suffered from bad build quality. I had 2 as company cars, the best company cars I've had have been Volkswagen Passats and dare I say it, the outright winner has to be Skoda Superbs, these cars have just performed and performed faultlessly. Previous company cars have been Ford Cortina's, Ford Sierra's, Rover 200. Another great car I had as a company car was an Austin Montego, not only was it a very comfortable car but it had a seriously gutsy engine.

The modern version of the Cavalier is the Insigna and that is IMO a horrible little shitbox. I had a hire car once while mine was in for accident repair and the hire car was 2 weeks old, and it creaked and squeaked, moaned and groaned like a 20 year old one, horrible thing.

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