http://electricar.us/blog1 Ed Begley Jr. Would Be Proud Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:10:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Core materials are the fillings in the sandwich structures that comprise most composite structures. By sandwich structure, I'm referring to a structure that has a core material (the bologna) covered by two facings (the bread). Most people would conclude that the facings are where the strength of the ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/09/23/core-materials/ I'm still cleaning up all of the old fiberglass pieces. I have the main body, the T-top and the two gull-wing doors left to work on. After that, I'll start repairing all of the damaged areas, make any modifications that I'd like and scratch-build some additional parts. Today, I'd ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/08/14/on-fiberglass/ I'm nearing the end of the clean-up phase of the fiberglass pieces and I'm approaching the point at which I'm going to need to start the fiberglass repair work. As such, I thought I'd post some information on the techniques that I'm going to use to do the fiberglass ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/07/31/sticky-stuff/ The Bradley GT II Electric was equipped with a defroster but not a heater. The defroster unit was positioned under the dashboard in a fiberglass plenum that was integral with the firewall and molded into the body of the car. Fresh air was drawn by a fan thru ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/07/27/hot-air/ While I'm growing new fingertips, I decided to put a bit of work into figuring out how to mount the seat buckets to the seat sliders today. In the original Bradley design, left and right sliders were bolted directly to the seat bucket. In the car I purchased, ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/07/17/hard-points/ For the last few days, I've been sanding all of the old upholstery cemet off the seat buckets, seatback shells, glare shields, door panels, etc. and, at this point, I've sanded the fingerprints off my fingers. It may be a few days before I resume that task. The ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/07/16/safe-cracker-available-for-hire/ The body came back from Plastic Media Stripping yesterday -- pretty amazing service. It took them about 3 hours to bead blast the underside of the vehicle and get it down to raw fiberglass so that I can start the repairs on the main body. I also ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/07/15/delamination/ After more weeks than I care to remember, all of the hardware for both the VW donor chassis and the Bradley kit car have been refurbished and inspected. I'll need to purchase some basic hardware items to replace some of the bolts, nuts, screws and washers that rusted ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/07/13/glasswork/ It's been a while since my last entry, so I figured I'd better at least make an attempt to update the journal. Most of the last few weeks have been spent painting and cleaning parts. I made a decision a few weeks ago to powdercoat those parts which ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/06/19/mr-clean/ Work continues, in sort of a hodge-podge fashion. I spent yesterday sorting thru all of the metal parts that came with the Bradley kit car -- things like bumper brackets, the accessory battery tray, the T-top post brackets, the roll bar (if you can call it that), seat slider ... http://electricar.us/blog1/2008/05/28/preliminary-electrical-design/