Greetings peeps................Have to sound cheery as I'm as pi***d off as hell.
The last post really did bite me on the a**e.
I nearly died a very flat squashy death. More of that later.
How's that for fate, Karma, bad vibes , ying yang, blasphemy or just plain tough titty.
There must be someone/thing/external joke player up/out/about playing some rather cruel and unfunny tricks with my life.
How I wish I'd not made the last post.............07 stinks.
I'm trying the same trick as the last post, irony and and a sense of belief in my own fate !!
Nothing much has happened MG wise.
Welded hole in floor near rear spring hanger.
Bought 2 tins of Grey etch primer.
Even collected MG roof section from Langley and deposited it at factory in Slough.
Its actually resting in a very rusty old garage out back of the toolroom, surrounded by
years of accumulated scrap machinery and 200 year old compressor.
The boss don't know its there yet. I'm have to tell him soon. Maybe he will guess when I sneak out of the next sales meeting at lunchtime and proceed to wield the grinder.
................................Oh whilst I remember......I was very nearly crushed to death by a HGV in the winds the other Thursday it's that 07 thing again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes it was really that close. Here's how it happened.
As I was wendling my way from Scotland I stopped at Castleford services to re-route my way home. The winds were getting very strong and good old Sally Traffic was giving out a list as long as yer arm of roads and motorways closed. Most of them between me and home.
Off onto the A19 from the A1 south of said services and I met a long queue of stationary traffic.
The A19 at this point is actually a minor B road, but very long and straight and very exposed in flat countryside. After 30 minutes wait in long queue orange lights appeared from the distance. Two recovery trucks were attending to a HGV that had toppled over, about 300 yards ahead on my side of the road. So, to cut a long story short. they recovered the HGV ( well I say HGV, it was actually a big removals type van transporting mattresses )
The recovery truck with HGV in tow sped towards us at about 60 mph.
Then Sh***********************t It started to fall over about 10 yards in front of me.
Its back end hit the transit van in front of me, it kept falling and I ducked down and sideways.
Smash, boom, thud, thwack. It hit me on the windscreen pillar, windscreen, roof, door front & back and bootlid.
It then went on to hit the transit van behind me ( On the roof only) and came to a standstill at 45 degrees to the HGV behind that van.
Bear in mind we were all stationary waiting for the go-ahead from somewhere down the road.
I think if I'd not been between two transit vans ( hi line ones at that) 07 would have been a very very bad year for at least three more people.
I dare not tempt fate again...so I'll sign off with a note of pessimism tha......
Hold on did...... I get my sums wrong? is it odds that are bad for me ? maybe evens then ?
or are they good. Maybe at the autumnal equinox it changes expotentially ?
There job done Not called "Captain chaos" for nothing.
I'll keep hangin in there, at least till the jobs done anyway. ( go away italics....please)
I do promise to post more often though...and if said female gets her finger out even post pictures.
See yer soon............p.s keep the messages coming I need cheering up !
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Happy New Year....................Its an odd one
Happy new year to all my fans and avid followers of nothing in particular.
The odd bit refers to the year number 07.
Traditionally for us ( me actually) odd number years seem to treat me better than even ones.
Before I get into this too deep.
Congratulations Hayley and Matt...........A lovely new little girl Daisy
So the year dawns bright and new, if not a little windy and wet.
Christmas was good, the house full of food and booze, family and friends, mess and arguments, indigestion and late rising, shopping and spending.
So fairly normal then.
I did get several invites to parties over the festivities which were all very good. So good in fact that i even turned one down, very near home and on a Saturday night. Wifey and daughter went though and enjoyed it immensely.
One sad note was that the rear wing never appeared as a Christmas present though.
However, a fantastic Red MG Keyfob did appear ( thanks Han) and a rather expensive looking travel bag with subtle embroidered MG logo on the side.
The MG has been rather neglected of late since the fitting of the sill section.
As you may be aware of the sill fit is not actually perfect. I think the gap is too large.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this as a precursor to know what to do next.
Now I'm of the opinion that the door needs better alignment. Its been on and off many times and is a swine to tighten up.
The sill gap is probably 8-10 mm when it should be 3-5mm. The problem is twofold -:
The sill will not move up any higher as the A post prevents this, it and has to be welded together to give some rigidity.
The door catch at the B post seems very high as the door has to be lifted to be closed.
Not having the rear wing in position to give the B post some strength don't help.
So the upshot is I will reposition the door by dropping whole door down approx 5mm.
Re align the door catch on the B post, hopefully it will drop down enough.
This is all better done once I have a new rear wing welded in position ( Hope wifey's reading)
Before this though, the inner/outer wheel arch must be completed.
I have started this and welded the inner strengthener plate onto the end of the open ended sills. The wheel arch sections are welded on top of this to align with the outer wing wheel arch.
So, cash needed for the inner wheel arch section/s. Luckily repair panels and not the whole arch can be purchased from MGBhive/MGOC. The rear wing bit is about £57 and not £350 as first thought. .......................... I told you 07 is lucky for me.
As I started to say for me and the family odd numbered years seem to be very good. Or is it that the even number years have always been bad.
I broke my leg in 04........................................Bad
Born in 57..........................................................Good
Heart attack in 96.............................................Bad
Married in 89.....................................................Good...........( brains with tact)
Redundant in 2002............................................Bad
6 month holiday/work in USA in 2001..........Good
Twins born in 96..................................................Good at first, but 13 years later maybe bad!!
Anyway, you get the picture. 2007 good year. Hope this statement don't come back to bite me on the ar**.
Back to the resto. Yesterday I welded a small repair patch in the front wing/ bonnet gutter.
Re-welded the sill in places. Sprayed primer on all the other sill areas that were showing surface rust from welding.
Noticed the windscreen bottom/rubber gutter rust hole that's going to be a dogs d*** to cut out and repair. Looked into hole in passenger rear floor. Stood around lots and pondered.
Other breaking news is I still have to collect the roof section from a nice chap in Slough.
I turned up 3 weeks ago and for some strange reason thought it might fit into the rep mobile.
Not a hope. Not even into an estate car. So I have to borrow estate car with roof bars to transport it to works in Slough for storage/chopping up. This will be done next sales meeting early Jan. Promise Chris. Thanks for your patience.
Must concentrate on removing and storing engine/ancillary parts till cash flows.
See you all soon. P.S Wifey's not yet replaced camera cable so no pictures as yet.
The odd bit refers to the year number 07.
Traditionally for us ( me actually) odd number years seem to treat me better than even ones.
Before I get into this too deep.
Congratulations Hayley and Matt...........A lovely new little girl Daisy
So the year dawns bright and new, if not a little windy and wet.
Christmas was good, the house full of food and booze, family and friends, mess and arguments, indigestion and late rising, shopping and spending.
So fairly normal then.
I did get several invites to parties over the festivities which were all very good. So good in fact that i even turned one down, very near home and on a Saturday night. Wifey and daughter went though and enjoyed it immensely.
One sad note was that the rear wing never appeared as a Christmas present though.
However, a fantastic Red MG Keyfob did appear ( thanks Han) and a rather expensive looking travel bag with subtle embroidered MG logo on the side.
The MG has been rather neglected of late since the fitting of the sill section.
As you may be aware of the sill fit is not actually perfect. I think the gap is too large.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this as a precursor to know what to do next.
Now I'm of the opinion that the door needs better alignment. Its been on and off many times and is a swine to tighten up.
The sill gap is probably 8-10 mm when it should be 3-5mm. The problem is twofold -:
The sill will not move up any higher as the A post prevents this, it and has to be welded together to give some rigidity.
The door catch at the B post seems very high as the door has to be lifted to be closed.
Not having the rear wing in position to give the B post some strength don't help.
So the upshot is I will reposition the door by dropping whole door down approx 5mm.
Re align the door catch on the B post, hopefully it will drop down enough.
This is all better done once I have a new rear wing welded in position ( Hope wifey's reading)
Before this though, the inner/outer wheel arch must be completed.
I have started this and welded the inner strengthener plate onto the end of the open ended sills. The wheel arch sections are welded on top of this to align with the outer wing wheel arch.
So, cash needed for the inner wheel arch section/s. Luckily repair panels and not the whole arch can be purchased from MGBhive/MGOC. The rear wing bit is about £57 and not £350 as first thought. .......................... I told you 07 is lucky for me.
As I started to say for me and the family odd numbered years seem to be very good. Or is it that the even number years have always been bad.
I broke my leg in 04........................................Bad
Born in 57..........................................................Good
Heart attack in 96.............................................Bad
Married in 89.....................................................Good...........( brains with tact)
Redundant in 2002............................................Bad
6 month holiday/work in USA in 2001..........Good
Twins born in 96..................................................Good at first, but 13 years later maybe bad!!
Anyway, you get the picture. 2007 good year. Hope this statement don't come back to bite me on the ar**.
Back to the resto. Yesterday I welded a small repair patch in the front wing/ bonnet gutter.
Re-welded the sill in places. Sprayed primer on all the other sill areas that were showing surface rust from welding.
Noticed the windscreen bottom/rubber gutter rust hole that's going to be a dogs d*** to cut out and repair. Looked into hole in passenger rear floor. Stood around lots and pondered.
Other breaking news is I still have to collect the roof section from a nice chap in Slough.
I turned up 3 weeks ago and for some strange reason thought it might fit into the rep mobile.
Not a hope. Not even into an estate car. So I have to borrow estate car with roof bars to transport it to works in Slough for storage/chopping up. This will be done next sales meeting early Jan. Promise Chris. Thanks for your patience.
Must concentrate on removing and storing engine/ancillary parts till cash flows.
See you all soon. P.S Wifey's not yet replaced camera cable so no pictures as yet.
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