Two holes took two hours....

....and one of them is in the wrong place!

Still nothing can depress us today, as we have just come back from watching Arsenal beat Spurs three nothing.

Tim did a little work yesterday to finally get one of the repeaters to fit through the body as you can see below.


But even now it doesn't sit very nicely, and the only way he could get the repeater in at all was to cut the retaining clip off, as several other builders (but not WF) had advised. We
will stick the repeaters on with clear silicone sealant.

This evening we moved on to fixing the nose cone on, the manual says to fit the bonnet locks first, but we thought that fitting the nose cone first would be better.

We recovered the bonnet and nose cone from Chrissy's bedroom and bolted them together for the hundredth time and sat them on the car, we then marked out a hole to match up with the central retaining bracket which sticks out from underneath the radiator.

In the next photo we have indicated it with an arrow....

We also tried to measure and mark where the two holes should go through the lip of the nosecone into the rivnuts that already sit in the chassis. this is another horrible/impossible 3D measuring puzzle.


Then we took bonnet and nose cone off, undid the bolts that were used to hold them together and drilled the lower retaining hole - this one was relatively easy to get in the right place as we just filed a pencil thin enough to go down the M8 hole and marked on to some masking tape.



However even after a lot of measuring, pilot holes, fettling out, we seem to have got the first of the two holes in the lip of the nose cone in the wrong place, as you can see from the last picture in the sequence it isabout three millimetres inboard of where it should be....

More fettling required tomorrow.

Enough for now.