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 In the course of the year, the lab was tooled up - judicious ebay scouring, trading favours, and other wheeling & dealing resulted in a very expensive TIG welder as well as a few other niceties that we'd had to do without before.
-Although we used the middle section of a Range Rover chassis, everything else was custom fabricated tube-frame.
+Although we used the middle section of a Range Rover chassis, everything else was custom fabricated tube-frame:
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+In addition to building a car of a level that was pretty much unseen on the UK off-road scene, there was also fettling of Eddie my 109 (see below), the acquisition and welding up of a 2-Door Discovery to act as an additional support truck, and so so much running around scrounging up parts, tools, supplies, and favours.
+Over the tube frame we press-ganged Mike to come and weave his sticky magic in glass-fibre, which allows you to make some difficult shapes in very thin, light & strong materials pretty quickly... if you're Mike. Us mere mortals just end up covered in sticky itchy goo and with something that looks like an accident in a glue factory.
+Correx and packing tape set the shape:\\
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+Glassed in with very light matting - thickness measured in GSM much like printer paper, which tells you how light this stuff can be!
+Another weird shape - this was purely done by stretching packing tape around the cage and then glassing over it:\\
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+Finished article - even the legend Ron Covell would be there for days trying to shape something like this out of aluminium...
+...that's not to say Jez didn't get a bit carried away with the aluminium fabrication and his shiny new TIG set:\\
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