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 18 hours ago Author Posted 18 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 18 hours ago by absmiami My phone is an idiot
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