Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

[blackpopracing]

Paul,

I preferred to keep the double skin edge as its stronger and will be easir to weld to. Braze will hopefully mostly grind off before welding. It does seem to burn off during the weld where I've hit it in other areas, though it needs 2 passes to get a nice weld.

James, finger is unbelievably painful kept me awake last night as it throbs nicely with my heartbeat. Even took pain killers today and I don't normally use pills ever. As you say I will lose the nail so it will be about a year to heal properly

[glenanderson]

Drill a hole in that nail to relieve the pressure under it, that will stop the throbbing and maybe save the nail. Protect it with a generous coating of clear nail lacquer (Mrs Blackpop will have some I’m sure). If the nail splits and starts to lift, use more lacquer to glue it down until the damage has grown out.

[ivanhoew]

yup at the age of 12 i used a red hot airfix hand drill with a arrow head shape to bore into my nail .it goes in a long way before dust comes out . i got it done then passed out ...but proudly.

[blackpopracing]

Hmm, I'll pass on both those I think

Nail varnish trick I already know as used it before!

[Jonny69]

The boot gutter repair looks good. That's one job I couldn't do on my Anglia, plus the curve goes in two directions to make it extra difficult.

[jamesd1972]

Or a red hot pin - less painful as the heat does the job with little pressure.
James

[blackpopracing]

Johnny, it's easy with a shrinker/stretcher.

James....hhhhmmmm think I'll still give that a miss. The entire nail is completely black now with a swollen finger so probably too late for trying to save the nail. Pain has subsided to a dull ache so not so bad now, just hurts if I knock it against anything.

Just another thing to endure while carrying on

[Midas]

Mar 30, 2021 22:41:44 GMT blackpopracing said:

Ouchy finger .

What you have there is a subungual haematoma, very satisfying to relieve the pressure on, just as long as it belongs to someone else.. The recommended method when I did my A&E time as a student nurse was a paper clip heated over a spirit burner, or the charge nurses lighter if you couldn’t find the burner.

In later life you could get a battery powered hot wire to do the same thing, but it never quite had the drama of a live flame

They need to be relieved reasonably soon after the injury, before the blood clots. It would be pointless, though mildly entertaining, to stick a hot anything in there now.

[glenanderson]

Yes, it’s probably too late now. If you’d relieved the pressure shortly after doing it you’d have been astonished at how quickly the pain subsided.

[Norman]

One of the problems i find with this type of injury is that no matter how much care you take you will continually knock or catch it on something. Here’s to a speedy recovery, the cars coming along nicely though. All the best, Norman

[stealthstylz]

The moment you get through the nail and relieve the pressure is what I imagine a religious experience would be like if I believed in religion. Also funny how far blood spurts through a 3mm hole.

[glenanderson]

Mar 31, 2021 19:50:51 GMT stealthstylz said:

The moment you get through the nail and relieve the pressure is what I imagine a religious experience would be like if I believed in religion. Also funny how far blood spurts through a 3mm hole.

I always use a 0.5mm drill in a pin vice. 

[blackpopracing]

Hmmm, had I known about the hot paperclip trick I 'might' have been brave enough to try it last night. It's going to cause me problems when it comes to the sanding stages

Finger looks like this now;



Funny, the nail already feels like it's almost detached and as Norman says, I've caught it on lots of things already

This was the offensive offending item that fell on it;



Anyway......ruined fingers aside, back to car stuff.

New steel all welded in now, braze did mostly grind off and only caused a few spits in the welds. Had to chase a few holes as the metal is very thin.



And dressed back. The bulkhead is never going to win any beauty competitions, but with some stonechip on the lower sections it will hopefully look tidy.



Rusty bits get a dose of Hydrate 80 on them.



and then on to the other side of the boot gutter. Boot floor also got a coat of Hydrate 80.

87.5 hours

[georgeb]

Mar 31, 2021 17:32:55 GMT Norman said:

One of the problems i find with this type of injury is that no matter how much care you take you will continually knock or catch it on something everything, all the time, even when you sleep.

Fixed it.

Hoping for a speedy recovery.

[eurogranada]

Mar 31, 2021 12:28:43 GMT jamesd1972 said:

Or a red hot pin - less painful as the heat does the job with little pressure.
James

This brings back a memory I'll never forget. It was my first ride ever in an ambulance! Oh, not because my nail was the issue, no....
it was from my mom passing out and hitting her head on the wall when she hit the floor right there in the GP's office as I showed her how he'd punched/poked a small hole in my nail after I'd presumably hit it with a hammer (can't remember what I did exactly)...

[varelse]

My finger specialist just pulled the whole nail out for me...
My nails grow pretty quick so I'm hoping it doesn't take a whole year (or never!) To grow back.

The other one that he trimmed back to get at the wound site has split a bit but seems to be holding together now.
Not sure if the skin scabbing up on the bare one is a good thing though!

[blackpopracing]

Hmmm....mine is lovely & black now, but it mostly no longer hurts - still quite swollen though.

I put a shout out for a new bootlid lamp on facebook, and it turned out a friend 3 streets away had one - result.
Picked it up but unfortunately it's in poor shape so may not be usable. It's currently sitting in a phosphoric acid bath so I'll see what it looks like in a day or so.



not much to show for todays progress as I was doing the rest of the boot gutter repairs. I was half way through welding in the new metal when I thought it was not good enough as the lip was too small. So it all had to come out again - which was a bit of a chore - proves my welds are good though!

Cut and folded/stretched a new peice of metal - with the right size fold on it! and welded it all in. Coated with Hydrate 80 so it will be ready for primer soon.



Then I welded in the new metal by the fuel tank outlet and fitted the rivnuts for the cover plate, all fitted here.



91.5 hours.

[Norman]

Hi Mark, hope the finger isn’t giving you too much grief. The repairs look good, i use hydrate 80 all the time. I have tried others but come back to hydrate every time. Phil will be feeling guilty watching the hours counter climbing at an alarming rate. All the best, Norman

[blackpopracing]

Thanks Norman, finger is not too bad unless I knock it. I'm new to Hydrate but it seems good.

[blackpopracing]

no photos of todays work as nothing very photo worthy to show, Phil came over to strip more paint off the bulkhead & chassis, and our friend Denis (who donated the boot lamp) came round for a garage visit - covid safe as we had the windows open & the extractor running - so a bit of chatting ensued which meant a fair bit less work than normal was achieved.

Denis helped me out with me welding up some of the holes in the boot floor and I made some floor stiffeners from some 19mm steel angle. I got these tacked in and we then tried the tank in - but unfortunately it fouled one of the stiffeners, so that had to come back out again. A Mk II version will get made tomorrow to see if it fits.

Phil will come over on Monday for another session, hopefully I might have a bit of primer on some areas by then.

98 hours.