SVA Day

SVA Day

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The resulting cut in the metal tube

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Seat belt ancourage point failed, no documentation to say the seat would withstand an impact. So HUGE! thank to Black-Cat (Tom) for poping round with his TIG and welding this bar in for us. Here he is using a tube notcher to but a perfect edge in.

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Here are after our SVA test. A number of fail points but a good day anyway sun and no windscreen! (only nearly swollowed one fly)

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This is one hell of a piece of kit! Setup your angle and off you go. No need to mess about with an angle grinder bit by bit getting your pipes to line up.

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TIG welders are great, unlike MIG there's no splatter of bits going all over the place!

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Tom squeezed into a compromising position trying to weld under the bar!

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Welded  very nicely! This stuff is CDS - cold draw steel (as Tom tells me! I went into metal supermarket in Southampton and asked for steel tube)

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Here's the other side. Lots of sanding was required to clean off the powder coat from the weld area.

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Area covered over cleaned and sanded ready for epoxy roll bar paint.

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Front ready for paint

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Painted from the front.

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Finally several coats of expoy roll bar and chassis paint drying.

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