Ah bead rolling yes, I’ve just upgraded to a 24” Baileigh powered version so lots to come from that soon.
Another big push on the metalwork has begun. Got one side outer sill on now, despite more issues with Wadhams panels.
I bought them a couple of years back and they arrived deformed from the circular pressings, extremely wavy.
At the time I thought I’d be able to shrink them back to life, but that proved impossible.
So since they didn’t reply to my email, and the length of time since purchasing, I had to think of a workaround.
This ended up being another return getting pressed into that top edge, which has straightened them out 99%, very happy with the results.
That of course required a slight redesign of how the structure is formed. I had the same sheetmetal company make up some profile to join inner and outer sill panels so as not to reuse any original steel.
Everything is now 16 gauge.
They got spot welded together and then everything came together nicely.
I’ve also upgraded the jacking points. These will end up with stainless locator plates screwed in from the bottom
Epoxied inside all the boxed in sections as always.
Onto the other side tomorrow!
Jim