Aston Martin Rust Oration

…and the Lord said: “let there be light.” and there was light…. and you could see for bloody miles…

Being somewhat short of sight I decided to splash out and buy a hideously expensive welding mask, a Speedglas 9002X auto-darkening screen with larger viewing area.

This weekend I tried it out. After setting up the welder and attaching new gas bottle bottle, I spent an hour or so just playing - butt-welds, lap welds, 90-degree joints, the best I’ve ever done.

Sadly all of the chassis welding on ROJ is complete - the only welding still to be done is when we replace the aluminium bodywork. I’m hoping Malcolm will teach me how.

My wife’s little VDP 1300 however still needs a little work to the sills and rear wheel arches, so I should have plenty of opportunity to play.

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