After weeks of looking I’ve finally been able to rent some workspace near where I live so we went up and spent a couple of hours sorting out some bits and pieces.
Believe it or not the building I’m going to be using was actually built initially as an aircraft hangar! Seriously, I kid you not … quite apt for working on a ‘skyrocket’ eh?
At the moment I’ve got just under half the hangar giving me a work area of about 8m x 4.5m, which should be plenty. It’s less than 2 miles from my house (I’ve only got to go through one set of traffic lights), has power, a concrete floor, seems to be watertight and the whole front can be opened up giving us plenty of access and natural light.
Having got some useful advice through the Forum on the ‘essentials’ for starting up a small workshop I’ve got most of the things, though not quite everything, folks have suggested. Like I say we took these up over the weekend.
The plan is that once Poppy has been for blasting she’ll go straight from there to the new workshop. Then we’re going to get the suspension, exhaust, rear beam, fuel tank etc off her so we can get her raised up and ‘tarted’ up underneath.
After that we’ll be cracking on with the bodywork getting her prepped for paint. And while that’s going on the bits we’ve stripped off her, which we intend to refit, can be refurbished as will the engine block. So expect lots of photos of bits getting stripped down, painted and even powder coated fairly soon.
Really excited about this latest development as having access to Poppy anytime of the day or night and at weekends should really see her progress quickly through the Spring.
The only thing is I’m not too sure about the neighbours … they look a bit rough!
