Spent a couple hours in a cloud of fiberglass dust today. Cut the other three fenders and got most of the steel stand-offs installed. Test-mounted the wires again for fit. They just about do.

Now it’s down to glass. Hoping to have some warm days before the cold sets in. I’d like to get them glassed up, ground back and cured for a few weeks before skim-coating them and finishing. We shall see.

Roy:

Plan is as follows:

1. alumitape underneath
2. glass from top, 2 or 3 or 4 layers.
3. remove screws and tape (leave the steel inserts and glass them in).
4. glass from bottom, 3 layers.
5. rough shape top with 80 grit.
6. glass from top, 1 layer.
7. allow to cure 6 weeks
8. fill holes, low spots from top with glass filler such as Fibral.
9. 80-120-grit top and bottom
10. fill low spots again as needed.
11. 180-220-300 top.
12. high-build primer
13. glazing compound/spot putty.
14. high-build primer.
15. 300-400 block/wet.
16. final primer
17. paint.

Yeah, I thought of narrowing the beam but would need a 3-inch narrow—2 would not be enough. So that’s a custom job and money and time, etc. I still might get a 2-inch narrowed beam later.

I hear tell polyester fiberglass shrinks if it isn’t cured long enough. I want a nice long interval between the main layup and the final paint.

Yeah those are new MWS Triumph TR3 wheels and hubs. They are tubeless. They have held air for 8 months now so I guess that’ll do it. Probably will buy a couple tubes anyway & keep in the car, just in case.

Test.

Hey, errbody! I am going to try a new way to insert a photograph in this thread, by following, to the letter, instructions from Paul. Those instructions are as follows:

‘You do NOT have to go back to the “insert/edit image”

‘On the same screen where you uploaded to your heart’s content, select a photo by clicking once, that will make it appear on the right.

<u>’Then click “Insert Into Page” in lower right. </u>

<u>’Bingo, the image is inserted in your post.</u>

‘You may do that with ANY image in the library, not just those you uploaded.

‘And I learned something about the Upload Files and Library tabs. The software remembers where you were the last time in. If you were on the Upload Files tab, the focus will be on that tab when you return. Ditto for Library.’

Ready? Here goes:

As you all may have noticed, no photo appeared in my “test” post. That is because Paul’s instructions, when applied to my computer, are bunkum.

Can any of you follow these instructions with success? If so, please chime in.

In my case, there simply is no “right”–as in “select a photo by clicking once, that will make it appear on the right.” If I select a photo I get this:

There is no way to “Insert Into Page” this image directly. A right click brings up the box of options I have previously described: Open image in new tab / save image /copy image / copy image address [which is what we have to do to get it to appear in a post] / search Google for image / and/or inspect.

Only (so far) by copying the image address and pasting that into the box prompted by the little photo thingie, second from right, above any post window, does one get an actual image to appear in an actual post. If you hit “inspect” you get a right frame with some really interesting code in it. Try it!

No, don’t.

Obviously, very few of us have any expertise or ability to make an actual photograph appear in an actual post. If we did, we’d do it, am I right?

So I am hijacking my own thread here for a purpose, which is to try to get some help in simplifying the new site. Several users have complained quietly and privately that it’s too hard to navigate, too hard to post a photo and lacks a few key features (such as the old “points” thing which seemed to, but did not, sum previous posts by the user so as to give readers a good idea about how much of a no-count time-waster—i.e., “expert”—the poster was).

None of these issues would appear insurmountable. Paul and our web guy, Stephen Houser, have taken up the cause, but there seems to be continuing miscommunication about what is actually happening on users’ screens. As I am a forum “moderator,” I may, in fact, have more options and powers than many of you.

So we need some more feedback.

Please chime in with your very specific experiences. I know it’s a PIA to get all specific and technical, but I fear that, unless we do it, we’ll continue to lose the usefulness and camaraderie TDReplica.com has developed over these many years, and the group (and hobby) will suffer.

OK let’s go!