The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

They're the ones that came with the cage and they're 140cm^2 in area

If you feel like going into production on that cardboard templated area I'll join the queue of customers.

Jonners

How much would you pay and how much more of it would you like Jonners?

Aye, if an accurate and cost effective patch panel can be made, that'd save dozens of cars on its own... For those unwilling to buy the excellent GRP ones available from Alun anyway.

Oli_88 wrote:Aye, if an accurate and cost effective patch panel can be made, that'd save dozens of cars on its own... For those unwilling to buy the excellent GRP ones available from Alun anyway.

Hmmmm intriguing......

How much interest in eyebrows do you think there would be?

lazeruspete wrote:They're the ones that came with the cage and they're 140cm^2 in area

Fair enough, hard to tell sizes from photos...

good evening ladies and gents.

more progress to report on!

this is what we started with



cut the flange off



make a new one



and weld it on



oh look, a hole



promptly filled in



another hole, you can see where the previous patch has been ground down flush



tadaaaaaaaaaaaa



more weld



as new

Some fine work on the feet - that reminds me...must get new Arc welder out of box.. and use!

Smartt progress again Pete, I'd say you've done about 2 years average work on a Sprint in say...3 months?

SandglowISnice! wrote:Some fine work on the feet - that reminds me...must get new Arc welder out of box.. and use!

Smartt progress again Pete, I'd say you've done about 2 years average work on a Sprint in say...3 months?

Haha it feels like it too!

Given that few if any of us would have the skill to do that, the repair section would need to go slightly bigger that the bits you cut out and have the flange right down to the lights....so a pretty complex curved old piece then....

Has to be worth 50 quid a side though....

Jonners

Jon Tilson wrote:Given that few if any of us would have the skill to do that, the repair section would need to go slightly bigger that the bits you cut out and have the flange right down to the lights....so a pretty complex curved old piece then....

Has to be worth 50 quid a side though....

Jonners

hmmm intruiging. i'll talk to alan about it.

progress report imminent by the way....

I wish I could weld like that. I put a partial wheel arch repair on my transit van last year, but my welding is not very neat and there was a lot of liaising of weld to be done and a tad more P38 than I would have liked.

Your man is welcome to come and do the offside arch and lower rear doors of my van if he is short of soemthing tomthrownthe mig at, craftsmanship is what he has done, hats off to the chap

MalcGE wrote:I wish I could weld like that. I put a partial wheel arch repair on my transit van last year, but my welding is not very neat and there was a lot of liaising of weld to be done and a tad more P38 than I would have liked.

Your man is welcome to come and do the offside arch and lower rear doors of my van if he is short of soemthing tomthrownthe mig at, craftsmanship is what he has done, hats off to the chap

im sure he will be flattered!

work on the sprint has been rather slow the last couple of days.

learning that the N/S wing is 10mm longer than N/S set us back a bit so a rework of certain things was required! its a long and arduous tale.

sans flange




with flange



oh look, a hole



not anymore!



mmmm grinding



another hole. at this point we removed the eyebrow so we could prepare that for welding



such as zinc primer and punching for spotwelds



build the eyebrow back in and then give it its water trap roof back. triumph really couldnt have designed a better water collector!. i would upload a picture of the eyebrow welded in but it isnt that interesting



and finally weld it all together!




with any luck and a tail wind i will have a complete front end picture for you all tomorrow

exciting stuff