Happy July 4th

Actually July 4th was last Sunday, which is why I did not work on the car. Quit early today to attend a dinner party for the Red Hot Ladies, my wife's cycling club. Crazy weekend: Lance is out of contention in the TdF, Lotus had two cars run the entire race at Silverstone, and Spain beat Netherlands in the World Cup final game. Tweets coming thick and fast.

Most of the week it has been overcast with light rain. I've been riding my bike to work, and getting wet every day. Today it finally felt like July.

I checked the POR-15 paint applied two weeks ago. Found no ill effects of thinning with solvent.Even so I would not recommend that combination.

Applied POR-15 Epoxy Filler to the welded-in patches at the center and RH side of the nose, including the top of the center grill opening. When filling small holes I try to apply from behind, to create a rivet effect. If the back side is inaccessible I just press really hard to get the filler to squish out.

Filled three small rust-through holes with fiberglass and POR Patch. Managed to do it without getting any on me.

Used my CP grinder and disc sander to smooth out the fiberglass patch and filler applied several sessions ago on the LH side. I added a second layer of cloth after the first had set. Today I discovered that adhesion of the second layer was weak. Getting anything to stick to POR-15 is tricky.

That last thing I did was apply filler over the smoothed down fiberglass, because by design the cloth sags down a little into the hole.