The hard bit is the graft.....especially on cold nights or when your expectations aren't met EG 'I thought it would only take 3 months to rebuild this body not 3 years'.....
Well, I realised this a long time ago and tend to only buy a part needed for the rebuild once the previous part has actually been fitted to the car but this time I haven't as its been soo long since I tackled the sills/valance/wheel arches that I decided to get new repair panels for the front wing headlamp areas:
Parts of my original wing fronts will need to be salvaged as they don't come with the new pressings and this will involve some sand blasting and I will be doing a lot of that this year as my Hillman Imp pick-up http://theonlyhillmanimppickup.wordpress.com/ is joining the Daimler in the barn shortly.
I'd been checking Ebay regularly recently for some Series 2 nose cones but only Series 1 & 3 seem to come up and I was at the point of asking a few USA sellers if they would consider cutting the front off some good second hand wings they are selling cheaply (to cut the shipping costs down) when I found an old JDHT booklet which showed the Series 2 pressings and their part no. which I typed into the Martin Robey search engine http://www.martinrobey.com/jag_parts.cfm and found they were readily available for about £30 but after VAT and P&P there wasn't much change from £90
new Series 2 nose cones. JHP1000 (RH) & JHP1001 (LH)
Anyway, as the title suggests, who knows when they will be fitted? The good news is I have another 'new' welder which is the exact same model as the one i used to have. Things did not look promising when the Ebay purchase arrived as it was so badly packed but I tried it out the other night and I think I may be back in business
there is a second hand SIP Migmate 100 in here somewhere
That's good information. We will be looking for S2 nosecones as well.
ReplyDeleteHi guys. There is a pretty useful article in issue 4 1999 of Practical Classics magazine (try Ebay) where they show you how to repair the wings with a new nose cone panel. They are adapting a Series 3 repair section to fit a Series 1 (which are strangely more similar to each other than the Series 2 - the indicator holes differ on all three). Apparently you need to do a bit of bracing before cutting anything away which I wouldn't have known. Cheers. Graham.
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