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Old 11-18-2015, 04:44 PM
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Hi all. My name is Steve Smith and I am located in the small town of Bo'ness in central Scotland. I have been a maintenance engineer in one form or another for 40 years. I have been involved with clubman motor sports for most of that time. I now sprint and hill climb a vintage Austin 7 and am building another. I had a very skilled amateur panel beater lined up to build the body but unfortunately he is now too frail to do it. I would like to try to learn some of the skills to enable me to build a simple racing car body in aluminium. I am presently mocking it up using wire and card before committing to metal. If you could see my attempts then you would understand why I need advise.
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Old 11-18-2015, 06:08 PM
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Old 11-18-2015, 06:12 PM
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Hi Steve welcome to the forum
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Old 11-18-2015, 07:39 PM
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Hi Steve,

I have some Scottish blood in me somewhere and alloy work is / was my thing so welcome to the forum. I must point out that I'm a real newcomer but I've found loads of great info in here in the short time I've been here so don't be shy.

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Old 11-19-2015, 12:20 AM
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Old 11-19-2015, 03:30 PM
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Hello Steve and welcome.

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Old 11-20-2015, 11:06 AM
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Welcome Steve. I'm just up the road from you in Falkirk. It sounds like an interesting project you've got there. Looking forward to pics
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Old 11-20-2015, 02:46 PM
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Hi all. My name is Steve Smith and I am located in the small town of Bo'ness in central Scotland. I have been a maintenance engineer in one form or another for 40 years. I have been involved with clubman motor sports for most of that time. I now sprint and hill climb a vintage Austin 7 and am building another. I had a very skilled amateur panel beater lined up to build the body but unfortunately he is now too frail to do it. I would like to try to learn some of the skills to enable me to build a simple racing car body in aluminium. I am presently mocking it up using wire and card before committing to metal. If you could see my attempts then you would understand why I need advise.
Thanks,
Steve
Hi Steve - I have a friend who is a master fabricator and currently building an Austin 7 Special for himself. I post things about it periodically on here. Here is the link to the thread.

http://allmetalshaping.com/showthread.php?t=13389
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Old 11-24-2015, 04:25 PM
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hi and welcome ,interesting project mock up is the best way to go you will get loads of help on here
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