Nine Fourteen Sex, The on going story of Love and Lust for a Machine. Options

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Thank you Scott, wait till you see the seats that I have planned for the car. They are going to pull on your hart strings.

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Today I was working on new hood pin hold down plates and smoking 10 racks of Ribs.



The plates are 2" x 2" and are hand grained. Doing more than 20, only gonna use 12.

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Hold down pin plates. 2" x 2" so I cut them out of what ever scrape I can find. Made a little fixture for graining them cause I like checkered flags.



If nothing else they are cute.

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New plates almost done.



I would like the hoods to more or less fall into place as they close (only in my dreams). So these will have a larger hole in them and that should be fine. Once their pinned down they aren't going anywhere, it's when you forget to clip them down that they learn flight.

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And now holy.



Going to have to do some repairs on the lids, have to plug the old screw holes.

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Edges finished, ready to go on the car.

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So I am in the middle of detailing the paint of the front hood. I know the hood is junk and needs replacement but I wanted to see if I could put a little V W back into her . That V W is about 23" in diameter.



The hood is currently in black primer and is about to be sprayed white primer. I am hoping that I can change the color of the shade of the paint in the finish of the color. It is a V W after all.
I figured that if I tried to put a sticker on that it would probably pull up the fresh paint.
Now to paint it white and pull up the taype.

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Oh shit, I found bomber seats for under $50. Bought 2, we'll see how this comes out. I also bought 2 sets of adjustable seat slides that I think I can modify and install the seats in the car for under $150. I have about $200 in the chair I made. That's cheaper than I can buy the material for. They are from Jegg's. On sale now.

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Primer done, I haven't found the blue I want yet but I can do the layout for the stripes and arrow head. I want something as light as Sapphire and I don't think Dupilcolor makes it. I still need to do more research. My hope is that the VW shows up on the blue.



Still a little early for handling so tomorrow I get to layout.

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I didn't realize it but now it's pretty obvious to me that I am in paint.



I have chosen Dupilcolor deep blue with orange stripes and arrow head. Doing the layout for the arrow head now.

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I laid out the stripes and arrow head on the hood. It worked out well so I like it. Still some touch up to do in the white primer.



You're going to have to look really close to see the layout lines as they are in pencil.
I'm probably going to take the ends of the arrow head above the hood pin plates
Did that and also narrowed the stripe as it comes to the arrow head an inch on each side. I think it looks better with the taper.

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Yep, I like the changes. I saw cleavage in the top center and thought about breast but I couldn't figure out the nipples.

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Bonkers likes it.

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I'm back on the new seats. Building the fixture to make the bends with and getting the layout correct. The fixture, this should make a bend with a 4" radius.



Fixture still needs a base and then to be assembled and tested.

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59,000 ah man I can't keep up... I promised pictures at 50K , hope I can get them done before 60K . There is more happening here than in the hole rest of my life.
I'm almost ready to spray color on the frunk lid. Still working on the bomber seat fixture. Got all the parts now so all it needs is cutting and assembly.

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The fixture is complete but my test piece needed more shaping after it was bent. I would like a little tighter radius.



Probably take me a day to get the material out from where I stash the large flat materials (behind the roll-a-ways and a compressor). Everything on that wall is on wheels.

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So I got the sheet of aluminum out and cut it to size. The layout is complete and it's just about ready for trimming



In order to see the layout you need to make it much bigger. I need to trim it to fit the fixture.

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So now I have the shape of a bomber seat. It appears to be too wide but I think that the fixture needs a smaller pipe. This is 4" but I would like to try a 3" pipe to see if it will reduce the physical appearance in size. I know it needs about 4.5" cut off the edges.



Remember, this chair is going on the lawnmower. This is just for practice as I don't have material thick enough to for the race car.
So change out the pipe and rebend the seat.

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Now something else is getting in the way. Cooking lunch, quote from a neighbor " Ready? Yum. "



Earlier I was working on the lawnmower, finished assembling it and quit to take a break. But lunch is done.

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Now something else is getting in the way. Cooking lunch, quote from a neighbor " Ready? Yum. "



Earlier I was working on the lawnmower, finished assembling it and quit to take a break. But lunch is done.

What are those?
They look delicious (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif)

Now I'm drooling over my keyboard...