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Two Page Updates - May 4th '18 - May 8th '18 |
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This update isn't actually about work on either of the
Jeeps, but instead, the garage in which they live. For several years, the
suspended floor in the garage has been slowly bending the bedroom floor joists.
This eventually caused a leak in the shower, with the water leaking down into
the garage. It was time to do something about it. The floor was designed
originally as a drawing office before I built bedrooms over the garage. When the
bedroom was added above, the space above was only about three feet high and the
suspended floor then became storage over the top of my R/C aircraft
trailer. The came first one and then two Jeeps in the garage. It was inconvenient to duck under the floor to get between them and the corner of the floor ended right over the driver's position in 'Hope', making climbing in a cautious exercise. The first two pictures below show the suspended floor above 'Hope'. |
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I originally planned a steel joist to lift the bedroom floor back to its original location. After further thought, I decided to pull out the suspended floor altogether and recycle the materials into a new storage system, more suited to having the Jeeps in the garage. This would give better access to the Jeeps and to the objects in storage.
After the floor was removed, I built shelves across
the dividing wall between the garage and workshop. At the bottom is my
Jerrycan store plus the K-20 camera crate and other boxes of Jeep and
Dodge display accessories. Above is the family tent, then the Dodge
canvas and my pilot's kit bag. To the right, over the top of the Jeep
trailer is lots more space, which may ended up with further camping
equipment. |
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Along the house wall side of the garage is two further shelves. These extend over the trailer and 'Jessie's engine, but being only two feet wide, do not restrict access to them like the suspended floor did. The garage is also a lot lighter now that the floor is gone. I still intend to fit the steel joist to support the bedroom floor, but stage one, the storage, is now complete. |
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Half way through the Breighton radial
engined fly-in, I noticed the bracket supporting the rear of the exhaust
had rusted through. This left the silencer hanging unsupported.
I had some copper electrical wire which I used to tie it up until I got some locking wire from one of the pilots and wired up the exhaust for the trip home. The day after I got home, I made a new bracket from some steel from the scrap box. Hopefully the exhaust has a bit more life in it yet. That was fitted in October 2007 after the original failed at the Pickering 1940's event. |
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