Several months ago someone mentioned either cutting some extra drainage
holes in their TR6 frame or at least planning to do so. I've been looking
at my (currently upside-down) frame and the few holes it has (the one's put
there on purpose[!]) and must agree that the number of possible dirt-and-
water-ingress holes probably overwhelms the few drainage holes.
I can tell there are several scum-retaining "partitions" inside many of the
the box-section lengths of the frame, and can guess about good locations
for extra holes. So, while cutting out a rusted-through section (by the
rear-trailing arms - as Scotty P. knows) I tried just cutting out a round
drain hole with the cutting torch, but this really makes a pretty
messy-looking hole. Of course, it would probably be better if the operator
knew a little more about what he was doing. =8-o
Any suggestions on cutting a nicer-looking hole? The *really* nice way to
do it is with the two-dies-on-a-bolt tool, but this requires having access
to both sides of the metal. A frame shop will be looking at it shortly -
will they have a way of doing this?
Lee M. Daniels - Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding - Texas A&M
daniels@lmsbvx.tamu.edu | DANIELS@TAMLMSB.BITNET | (409) 845-3726
"Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug."
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