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[Mike Bull]

Nowt to do with us...and nowt to do with the crash either- K7 has repeatedly revealed herself to be an utterly bespoke, totally unique hand built machine with a hundred and one little oddities that you'd never ever know about if you didn't have the proof there in your hands. Gotta love her for it!

[Mike Bull]

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Aha, my secret lair has been revealed!

While everyone (and I mean everyone!) else has been busy with the tail cover for the last couple of weeks, I've been Mikey-no-mates through in the other shop busy with the air intakes. The innards are permanently built now, with all the original parts (plus a few new bits of our own devising) put together with oodles of choccie and a multitude of the finest rivets money could buy, if we'd not actually blagged 'em. Bill is back on the hammers and the welding set now as we repair and re-fit the famous thickened intake lips, and overall I'm steadily heading towards being able to put the outer skins on for good.

[Renegadenemo]

I reckon that by the time we include the last of the original parts in that thing, including the rest of the 66 mod's following the failure in Coniston, it will be more original than new. No mean feat considering the battering it took.

[Terminator]

Hi Mike I can hear the violins mate but seriously now you know what its like to work alone in the other room on your todd, mind you it can be quite good for the concentration especially whilst working on those extremely important but also magnificent air intakes.A sight to behold as you enter the room I might add. After all they are effectively the lungs of the machine and vitally important that you get them right A credit to you and Bill, Mike as I know it has been a long hard road to bring them back to being fit for purpose.
Top Job Gentlemen.

Novie
I've Gone

[bluebirdsback]

Novie, I used to work alone in that room too, could listen to ball chasing all day without a single moan from the rest of the team.

[Renegadenemo]

A credit to you and Bill, Mike as I know it has been a long hard road to bring them back to being fit for purpose.
Top Job Gentlemen.

Very kind of you to say so, Novie. I seriously reckon that the intake represents about a third of the total amount of effort on the whole machine considering that it has about a zillion parts yet you can pick it up with one hand - oh, and that at least half of it has been in a crash.
Credit, though, must go to all on the team because every last one of us has had a hand in building the roughed out parts into a big chunk of boat. If I have a complaint it's that Mike insists on using rivets normally reserved for the Typhoon Eurofighter that cost more then buying the moon but in the long term that can't be a bad thing.

Novie, I used to work alone in that room too, could listen to ball chasing all day without a single moan from the rest of the team.

Not quite the case... we couldn't hear the ball chasing and you couldn't hear us moaning about it. And then we bought you some ear defenders with a radio inside so the sound of grown youths running hither and thither after a bag of wind was yours and yours alone. See how we look after you.

[Mike Bull]

If I have a complaint it's that Mike insists on using rivets normally reserved for the Typhoon Eurofighter that cost more then buying the moon but in the long term that can't be a bad thing.

Typhoon rivets?! Pfft, balls to those- I want the ones that hold the wings on the Space Shuttle- if those intakes collapse again it's not going to be because of me!

[klingon]

Wings were held on with shear ties and tension bolts-only rivets used on the wing structures were internal stringers and some skin panels

[Mike Bull]

I think you missed my point entirely there!

[klingon]

Type 3 moment-punched myself in the face-better now--