Red Rallye resto

[Ben_w]

So, a little progress, but not much....

The chassis panel arrived from Belgium. Pleased as this is for the passenger side and that side has been patched (very neatly and well I might add) in the past. I think I'll end up replacing the whole panel. Alignment issues I was worried about can be overcome by bolting up the subframe and using as a guide.





Onto the windscreen VIN template. Rich sent me it in a file format I could print out. Armed with half a dozen copies, i cut out the print off, stuck it to a sheet of vinyl and got punching. Now initially, I'd ordered a 1mm punch as this is the size of the dots. However, it's slightly tapered and as I was punching through, the punch would go through further and open out the holes too much. Hmmmm. Didn't help I was punching onto a sheet of card.





Ordered another punch, this time 0.5mm and nicked an old plastic chopping board from the wife and punched onto that. Much better results.



Still a couple of issues to resolve. The template size isn't quite right. Compared with the original, it's not as wide although letter height appears about right. I will remeasure and see if Rich can alter it. The W on the print off is also wrong compared to the W on the screen. Couple of extra dots along the base which should be easily sorted. I'm also going to try printing directly onto the reverse side of the vinyl and punch through from that side. Means the side that will sit against the screen for etching will have the cleaner punch marks although I'll have to figure out how to flip the image for this....