MetroRider Pictures – prior to start of work
This is what it looked like before I got it.
Archive for November, 2009
Repairing fiberglass today
Today was quite a productive day. I removed all the stickers on the back relating to it’s previous life as a Race Bus. T-Cut the surrounding area and you can hardly tell. Well apart from where the previous blue colour pokes through. The previous owners had not had much experience of large vehicles I think. [...]
At a dead halt on internals
I have stripped out as much as I can inside for now. The bus is unfortunately now full of wood and matresses etc. So I need to do a tip run before I can remove the last bits. I am about half way through now.
Bus Length and 3G aerials
I had some problems with my 3G last week, it kept dropping the connection. Now this is straight after I had installed Windows 7 so I was thinking of blaming the OS. However I ordered a 3G aerial with magnetic base. I have been running it now for 4 hours without a single drop out [...]
Started painting the windows today
Removed some of the existing furniture so I could get to the windows and started spraying them. I just got a bog standard tin of Gloss Black car touch up paint, cleaned the windows then gave a very thin coat. Once this had dried (about 15 minutes) I put a thicker coat on and from [...]