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Total from 2024  
1837 hr

A brand new year and the list has no end insight and will most likely expand once items are being worked on. No point of listing anything in particular just looking at what still needs to be done makes the list that much bigger.
One of the huge items for this year will be to acquire some sort of power plant and have it fitted in and running and finish any chassis in the rear


Feb 10  3hr
A month into the tear and spring coming fast need to make some progress on anything that can be done in the house. One of those things are the head light buckets.
Going back on the previously made cones for the projectors and as they are much too long started making up a shorter ones just so that the lens will fit and but against the mounting flange. First prototype ended up way too big, had so much empty space that could not possibly make up any mount stand offs. After making some adjustments came up with comparable cone that will fit the projector snugly yet still have enough clearance for air movement and mounts could easily be placed.
Having a sample, it was taken apart and a second similar cone was made for opposite side.
Next came the larger high beam projector cone. Identically the cone was shrunk in size and 2 where made

Feb 12  3hr
Continuing on the projector cones. They where taped up on the outside so that they can be later more easily pulled from the plug and also give a smoother finish as the tape will be able to separate from the plug much easier then the bare cardboard once it had been fitted inthe headlight and back filled to make up the cavities.
Also added ridges to center locate in the openings. This will center locate them all in proper locations and help in alignment of the beam during the projector installation.

Feb 23  1hr
Cut out frames to fit on the outside in order to hold the forms square. and filled in with plaster. The hope is that the filled in cavity for the projector will hold shape when fitting into the main housing

Mar 15  1.5hr
its been some time and its much over due overwork on the head light so with that marked down the projector molds with markers in hopes that the ink will transfer onto the headlight it self so that could get some sort of guage on how to roughly judge the packets. As to the projector molds, they are not perfect and have some waviness around the openends as the frames where about 15mm down but as they where still somewhat too tall they will be cut down and thinking that the projectors should be sunk down further in giving some clearance in the wheelwell additionally not look better from front not being sunk into the housing.
Had the LED housings trimmed out so that the projector molds would slide in freely and had some space around them. Mixed "soft" filler and set all 4 plugs into the housing. As a note. as much as the housings where made setting those fillers in showed how much of difference was between left and right

Mar 16  1hr
Short morning visit to check up on the headlight buckets. Not cured but perfect condition to pull out the projector forms. Maybe cause it did not cured enough or perhaps the forms should had thinner filling never the less pulled all of them out but made some mess and its a good starting point to finally get them symmetrical and finished. Left side bottom part cracked and started to separate but it was like that for some time. Will have to try the glue trick and see if it can be salvaged. Right had some damage as well on top of the ring.
Any way its good start and hopefully will be ready for molds on few weeks. Now will have to wait few days for everything to dry properly and see what can be done next

 

 Total   1846.5 hr


 

 
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