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SteveSPG

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Tuesday 12th August 2014
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sent the tam to Dave the trimmer for the final instalment of the trim. (the dash sections) he has already done the doors/seats etc which i fitted at home
but needed the car for a few days to do the dash as the screen needs to be removed/replaced.

its only been a few days......i keep going into the garage for no good reason.....resorted to tiling the laundry room floor at the weekend...think i need a "fix"

SteveSPG

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Wednesday 13th August 2014
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Don. Drop it at mine. It'd have a new gearbox by the weekend

SteveSPG

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Wednesday 13th August 2014
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chris watton said:
Know how you feel, my car has been away more often than not of late.

Got mine back now, though, and heading back to the garage in a min to continue with polishing the Tam with my new DA polisher I bought for her - used it on the wife's car first though, just to practice....
I've never used one of those da thingies, only a orbital one but its a bit heavy (used it for cutting back gel coat on cobras)

are they easy to use?


SteveSPG

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Friday 15th August 2014
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the front of the tam has a number of stone chips, so will get a fettle sometime, so its a perfect opportunity for me to try one of those things and get used to it on paint thats going to be replaced .

just got a few pics from DTT, the screen was bonded in with "excess" mastic, and was also a tad too low, which meant that the mastic was covering bits of the paintwork it shouldn't. makes sense as there was always a small gap near the front of the roof where the rubber didnt seem long enough. only 3/4 mm but now i know why



the dash and pod leather is being replaced. the mis match is because I've used a friends pod (actually his pod, seats, door panels etc) in my car whilst Dave has been doing some of the work on the items when he can, so I've been able to usin the car

after removing this seemed a better idea to properly refinish with a paint around the scuttle top. I'm not unhappy as this area didnt have the best paint finish in the first place.



this is with the new black leather

Daves painter also refinished the troublesome screen riveted panels



still a bit undecided to leave the carpets or replace them......nothing really wrong, but black would be better I think

SteveSPG

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Friday 15th August 2014
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more trim bits

copied the speaker recesses of a late sag door card to take bigger speakers.



and some of the other bits





Daves painter painted the seat backs for me too. they were blue already but a bit tatty before




Edited by SteveSPG on Friday 15th August 14:04

SteveSPG

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Friday 15th August 2014
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chris watton said:
They are all polished out now, works a treat - but still hard work!
what polishes `and glass do you use...looks like a huge range of options

SteveSPG

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Tuesday 19th August 2014
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yes, i spoke with rick about what i wanted, and it became immediately apparent he knew what he was doing with the disassembly ...for example removing the wipers on a tam results in the fuse board falling off onto the steering column.

he did the seat backs above too so i was happy to let him carry on with the screen