{"id":341,"date":"2007-08-25T20:21:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T19:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/skodarallyblog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-07-30T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T18:03:50","slug":"well-nearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Well, nearly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;d planned to get the cage finished today.  Mice and Men, etc.  Reason being that firstly I didn&#8217;t get started until later than I planned, but mostly because there was a LOT of awkward welding to do on these tubes meaning muchola contortion, a lot of electrode re-grinding (if you touch the electrode in the weld pool you need to do this, and each time I need to wait for it to cool down before doing that), and also a bit of &#8220;I&#8217;m bored&#8221; also.  Which meant that I started something else this afternoon instead &#8211; an &#8220;extra&#8221; (as if I have time), sill stand holes.  This might seem OTT, but fitting these will mean I&#8217;ll be able to get a quick-lift jack for the car (and the jacking time is the biggest time-waster when changing a wheel) and not have a knackered underside as well.  However, fitting them can be a bit of a hit-and-miss affair, reason being that you need to drill a large hole through the sill, which is 4 pieces of metal across around 150mm.  I don&#8217;t have a drill big enough for this, or a hole-saw deep enough, so it needs to be accurately measured and then done from the inside and the outside.  At the back this means being under the car, which isn&#8217;t too bad without the tank and exhaust there.  And amazingly, I&#8217;ve done 3 and got them all within a mm of where they should be, which is good enough if you ask me.  This might not look very pretty:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Sill stand points welded in\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/gallery\/oldblog\/20070825-sill_stand_hole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But it will do when it&#8217;s properly painted, and it&#8217;ll make a world of difference to working on the car.<\/p>\n<p>So the cage is nearly done &#8211; a few little bits to weld, and one more tube to place which is a piece of cake &#8211; just runs between the two strut towers at the rear.  Shouldn&#8217;t take more than a couple of hours and it&#8217;ll be done.  Pity the weather hasn&#8217;t been this good for weeks, I reckon I&#8217;d have a finished car stood there by now if it had!  But here&#8217;s how it all stands&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Cage nearly finished, rear view\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/gallery\/oldblog\/20070825-cage_rear_1_to_go.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Cage, nearly done, side view\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/gallery\/oldblog\/20070825-cage_side_1_to_go.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, etc&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;d planned to get the cage finished today. Mice and Men, etc. Reason being that firstly I didn&#8217;t get started until later than I planned, but mostly because there was a LOT of awkward welding to do on these tubes meaning muchola contortion, a lot of electrode re-grinding (if you touch the electrode in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}