absmiami Posted July 22 Author Posted July 22 Some more mods for a better fit within the tail - the rear gear case cover is simplified and trimmed - and a brace added for the support bracket for the exhausts - mite still need to take a scale inch or two out of the length of the transaxle casting …
absmiami Posted July 24 Author Posted July 24 You’re probably thinking that i’ve abandoned the Lotus kit entirely - au contrare - the uprights fr and rear are usable with these mods …
absmiami Posted July 24 Author Posted July 24 Front uprights - will have to shape some tie rod posts … and make some brake discs -
absmiami Posted Sunday at 03:56 PM Author Posted Sunday at 03:56 PM Spa is such a great circuit - top of my bucket list …. Lots of stuff to make in front of the foot box …
absmiami Posted Sunday at 03:59 PM Author Posted Sunday at 03:59 PM Will use the Girling brake castings that Norman made for me for the 18 …. And i’ve got to make some brake discs - in the mean time …
absmiami Posted Sunday at 04:06 PM Author Posted Sunday at 04:06 PM Back to the … front …. The resin Joker Lotus kit contributes a resin radiator casting that has the correct size and shape to fit within the white metal nose casting fr the Auto-Kits 25 - with some detail mods - the white stuff is Evergreen …
absmiami Posted Monday at 10:50 PM Author Posted Monday at 10:50 PM In between the radiator and the footbox is an oil tank that feeds an oil radiator - thats integrated into the left hand portion of the radiator shell - made fr Evergreen strip - mostly a sandwich of .125 by .250 … i’ve pegged it to the base of the footbox - thats a guess as my many photos fail to show just exactly how it was attached …
absmiami Posted Tuesday at 12:04 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 12:04 PM Air ducts left and right - made with Evergreen channel strip and tube - one of the curious things about the first or early 25s is that there were no visible radiator sub-frames - it appears that Chapman thought that the radiator was adequately supported by the water hoses and the airducts - but the subframes soon appeared - and all of the survivors have them - another example of commen sense over Chapman …
absmiami Posted Tuesday at 12:17 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 12:17 PM Suspension members : the lower fromt A arms were soldered w silver solder - using .040 nickel silver tube, with short lengths of .060 and .047 tube for the joints - this was tricky because none of the published chassis plans have susp overhead susp drawings - so the first part required multiple attempts to find the correct angles - the second one will be easier …
absmiami Posted Tuesday at 12:22 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 12:22 PM Well - actually the early Road & Track drawings did include an overhead with susp drawings but it turns out that the fr susp drawing wasn’t accurate - the included angle was too narrow …
BK9300 Posted yesterday at 12:34 AM Posted yesterday at 12:34 AM This is spectacular work, Andrew - amazing amount of detail you fit into the suspension pieces (and other parts of model as well!)
absmiami Posted 9 hours ago Author Posted 9 hours ago (edited) Not enough solder in the joint - even though i’m using silver solder …. But i managed a repair and then soldered up the left side arm … checked the width - i’ll get real close to spec tread width … Edited 9 hours ago by absmiami My phone is an idiot
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