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Wed 09 November 2005

Dad is away for the next week so progress might slow a little and I'm going to take it easy generally. 
Today however was good and warm (30C in the shed, warmer outside - not bad for the first week in Nov), so I continued with the backing strips for the rear window.
The shape of the strips isn't quite as obvious as first apears. The 1/8" thickness of the plexi-glass makes the shape harder. I ended up making an 'oversize' strip which I then trimmed progressively back.
This is the RHS after drilling (I used #36 again).
Then using washers / spacers I roughed a 'upper' edge for trimming.
The LHS was easier with a template available.
After lots of trimming, sanding, scotchbriting both sides were completed and ready for priming / spraying. You can see the difference in shape between the skin edge and spreader.
Carl Morgan