Locke's Austin 7

Unfortunately yesterday was raining pretty hard so we spent some time drafting up the adaptors for the wheel hubs and cutting out some parts on the CNC plasma cutter, which kept us in the workshop. Two new skills unlocked lol. Unfortunately there just wasn't enough room to lay the chassis out inside so we decided to put that off until today.

The rain held off today so spent some time today getting the chassis welded up. We decided on the chassis width based on the width of the rear axle, my CK and the width of the front spring. It is 50mm wider than my CK. After we levelled up the trestles, Locke checked the chassis for square and tacked it up. We added some gussets to the front corners to help improve the strength, as there will be a lot of twisting force from the transverse front spring.

Also took some measurements for the front spring hanger ready for a trip to the steel shop tomorrow for supplies. We also need to procure the parts to make up the front beam and vertical links.