Well I have been busy ish, in the workshop with two unplanned for projects. This one involved making brackets for a lovely British classic car, an MGA. I hope that I will be able to post a picture of the mirrors fitted as soon as the weather and the mirrors have been fitted.

The problem was that the owner, my architect Michael, couldn't find suitable mirrors to fit the 'A' posts or windscreen uprights. He didn't want to drill holes in the wings (and I agree totally with that!) and as he tours to France and elsewhere he wanted the advantage that good wing mirrors give. All the sets of mirrors he saw all had the same shortcoming, literally! They all were too short and didn't secure easily.

At the recent car show in Exeter, Michael found an nice set of round mirrors. When trial fitting they also did not go away from the car enough. I should have explained that Mikes MGA is a soft top or convertible. Well Mike brought the car down and we looked to see what could be done by 'adapting' (that means sawing parts off!) the brackets. The extension was only two or three inches and we decided that some stainless steel of the right size, could be machined to suit. The photo's below show what was done. In the middle of making the extensions I decided it would be nice to have some flu (hence the delay in writing up the project) so yesterday I phoned Michael to say they were ready.

The fixings used will not be the final ones, as some nice stainless steel sealed nuts and bolts are being sourced by Mike. He really does look after his car and also uses it. Hopefully the extensions will help in the driving pleasure. Time will tell.

Constituent parts - cut down brackets and stainless steel blanks.

Milling one of the flats to match bracket.

One of the brackets completer prior to polishing.

The pieces made are the two stainless steel shafts. The bracket on the left hand side is bought. Needs stainless steel bolts and hopefully stainless steel capped nuts similiar to that used for the mirror itself.