Out with the old

I've been sidetracked a little from chassis building recently, first of all there was a pesky race meeting
to go to - this went well till it rained. We qualified 1st with a 7.58 which was very close to my personal best, in fact both qualifying runs were 7.5's, the other a 7.59 and both runs were best ever 60ft times (1.16) which meant the changed final gearing was a step in the right direction. The weather however did spoil the fun, and by mid afternoon on  Sunday the meeting was called off.
The second distraction - on the way to the race meeting i went looking at milling machines and on my return ended up buying one of the ex demo machines i was looking at. It really wasn't one of the ones i went to look at either but i spotted it and was quite impressed by the capacity. The price was good and I've come to the conclusion that realistically it's about as much of a mill as I'm ever likely to get safely into the cellar. So i'm currently in the middle of selling my old one quickly as i need the space (if anyone's interested its on that site 201120673907). And I've spent most of this weekend building a heavy duty bench for the new one, which i'll collect later this week.
Today however, i managed to spend a couple of hours making the lower back engine mounts, and fitting some more tubes - the really awkward top ones that meet not only at 2 angles but on a curve too. It took a couple of prototypes to get it right.
Only a few tubes left to go in now really, but next weekend will likely be taken up with trying to get nearly 400kg of mill down the steps into the cellar.... safely!