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With my new Clarke MIG welding machine, I'm now learning to weld. This was once a rusty saw blade, and is now a small metal cuboid. Why? Because it was there!

June 08, 2020

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A starting point

After several (30!) years of thinking that one day I would own a Morgan, from December 3rd 2019, I now do. It's a 1995 Morgan 4/4, with the 1800 cc Ford Zetec engine. Reasonably low mileage, current MOT, and a fair bit of rust around the wings and running boards (as the Colwall Classic Cars chap said, its a bit "frilly around the edges". I drove home the 35 miles from Colwall without incident, and took Stephanie for her first trip. The car started to misfire, conked out on a roundabout, but struggled back to life after a couple of minutes. She's not quite so keen to try again! But I think it may have been dirt in the fuel, possibly. The only other thing to note is slight wheel wobble at about 68-70 mph.

Rebuilding the sill

First I used some aluminium mesh, as a base. My attempt to fix this down with a layer of fibreglass failed miserably, so I resorted to just using the resin to stick the mesh in place first, and then will add fibreglass tomorrow. Lots of filler. Then paint & lacquer. It ain't perfect, but for a lock-down repair, it'll do.

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