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Finishing off the bulkhead welding

Will do, the full scale ones are consuming all my time right now though! I’ve not built a model car in a long while. I think the closest to ‘done’ is a TR5 I was building from an Airfix TR4.

I have roundtail Spits, one a Le Mans one, and I think a GT6…

So as not to drift the thread where this came up even further… @JohnD, @Chris Longhurst these are (most of) the running Triumph slot cars I have, some a little worse for wear from age and use! I have a number of unbuilt projects hiding around the place, including a Vitesse. All are on scratch built brass chassis, except the silver TR7 which I think is on a commercial metal chassis. Bodies as follows: TR3 - home resin casting, traded, TR4 - Airfix, Dolomite - OneThirtySecond, TR7s - modified Scalextric, 13/60 - OneThirtySecond, 1200 convertible - home resin cast, mine. The rest of the cabinet is a mix of cars belonging to me and my dad.

The gt6 I guess has the same boot as the Spit though? A bellows type one that screws on the top of the cover?

On the other hand, slot cars are more likely to be a source of wheels that’ll match your real life ones more closely. If you’re bothered about that level of detail!

Sorry John, I was just meaning I could show them to Chris! I did cast some of my own slot car shells, but the Vitesse is one I got in a trade about 15 years ago (oh dear, that’s a while…). However, I’ve done a quick search and there is a casting currently available! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175578317976?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LGUkb-AKR2S&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=en_MztWYTyu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Do you still have this plate, and do you want rid of it!? I was planning on making my own, but in searching to confirm a different one was needed for an O/D box in the Herald I found this post and thought I’d ask.

@Chris Longhurst this does remind me I should dig out my collection of Triumph slot cars for you. A good number of them still aren’t built up as the full size ones came along! I’ve got a Vitesse shell somewhere. One from the same mould had been made up as the candy box by the guy I got it from..

It has the look of a late 50s American car styling, like the massive chrome bullet bumpers etc.

As I’ve just evicted my Herald’s engine from its rightful place, here’s a photo of the engine drain point,

I’d guess that it’ll be less friendly towards heat, oil, water etc.

The retaining ring Doug mentions is not standard on the Herald/Vitesse. The boot is supposed to just clip on to the tunnel via the lip on it… I made myself an equivalent of the retaining ring out of thin aluminium. But the repro boot has disintegrated since so I might also be looking for alternatives.

That particular eBay one is not going to work! It’s listed as an m14 thread. The small chassis cars are 3/8 NPT. Canley’s sell a magnetic sump plug (as I’m sure do other suppliers) with the appropriate thread.

Fitchetts might be worth a ring in case they have a stash hidden away somewhere.

They’re available new https://www.jamespaddock.co.uk/wiper-wheelbox-mkiiiiii-3 There do seem to be different part numbers though. I’ve one of the above on my 69 Mk3 and it works, and was visually identical to the old one.

You’re right it goes over the speedo body and the clamps push up against it. It spreads the clamping around the rim of the instrument rather than concentrating it completely where the clamps contact the dash.

Fixing the passenger windscreen frame, and making and fitting a gutter

Paddocks are advertising theirs as polyurethane. My old ones are wafer thin, they’ve been bolted down for a long time given how little there was left of the bolts that pass through the chassis. My Canley’s order shipped yesterday so I’ll report back with what I get.

175/70/13 should be the right (close enough) rolling radius. See courier 456, June 2018, p 16 for good coverage of all useful tyre sizes by Phil Wilson.

Have you put a want ad in the courier? There’s definitely an extra audience to be had there as the users of the forum are only a smallish subset of the club membership as a whole.

https://www.tssc.org.uk/tssc/classifieds_final.asp?classified_ID=9746 This one is right next door to you! Though is a convertible. There’s five on the TSSC site at the moment, the only saloon is down in Cornwall. Saloon on eBay in Crowborough which is not far from you either https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374691155333?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=fpu4ls5itag&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=en_MztWYTyu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

GT6 Mk3 should be negative earth already. I’d guess all the GT6 models were given they date from the mid 60s on.

It would be a good candidate for a 3D print I think. I got a good result with a label for my overdrive warning light (with similar recessed lettering). Though that was a fairly simple shape to design otherwise.

I used to live in Merrow and definitely know Newlands Corner, and it happens to be the place Agatha Christie’s car was found when she disappeared for a week or two!