Ford RS200 Rebuild. Rivets & Honeycomb.
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- The Bluebird Project team is getting ever deeper into the structure of this car and unearthing problems and manufacturing issues that were there from the start. Ford admitted quite early in the life of the RS200 that it had structural issues but there's not a lot to see from the outside. The inside, however, points to issues that perhaps for reasons of cost or time constraints were simply buried and forgotten.
Here in the latest instalment of our ground up restoration of Chassis #068 we tackle one such problem and put a good fix on it. We also discuss what rivets we're going to use as we begin to to reassemble the repaired sections of the chassis.
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Chassis number 068 was retired due to extreme damage in the crash-bang world of 90s rallycross then discovered years later in a field with grass growing through it. Now that the work on Bluebird K7 is on hold the award winning team is devoting its energy to resurrecting this icon.
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Very informative great stuff 👍
I can honestly say I've learnt something today, great explanation of what I used to think was a humble rivet.
Me too, great explanation
Glad that was useful. The range of rivets and pullers is honestly bewildering. We have a Cherry Textron offset pulling head for difficult corners and we put some wear and tear on it building Bluebird's air intakes - they were done using CherryMax rivets. The UK agent for Cherry Textron couldn't even discuss the puller until we supplied the part number of the rivets we intended to pull for liability reasons. Rivets aren't as humble as we all once thought, me included.
Bill
Great video. You really make me laugh, you guys are so natural, no script. You learn so much watching your videos
It gets a bit daft in there some weeks. It's our safe space where we go to decompress amongst friends. Most of what goes on would get our RUclips channel taken down in a heartbeat. Thanks for watching.
Very enlightening on rivets (and aircraft engines), thanks 👍
Thanks for watching - we actually put a few rivets into the job in the next film. Less talk - more action. 😁
I never knew Pop was the manufacturer. As always it was another fantastic video. Thanks for all the effort you put into this Bill and Co.
Thanks for tuning in - we enjoy making these films so we're chuffed you like them.
Excellent, thanks. Learned some new things about rivets there.
Splendid - we've a fair bit of riveting to do so there'll be more detail there soon. Thanks for watching.
Another excellent update Bill & some very useful information, this chassis is going to be better than when it was 1st made 👏🏻
That's the plan. It's quite shockingly bad even if it wasn't crunched and rotten! If you're passing the workshop it would be good to get together to discuss some repairs on the composites.
@TheBluebirdProject yeah mate I'll pop in as soon as I can, just been busy with work & making carbon parts for the GTE
Awesome!!!
I too have learnt stuff from this video!!
Years and years ago my grandfather repaired his Ford Anglia wing with some sheet metal work (where they frequently rust above and just behind the headlight) and blind rivets. The MOT examiner whinged apparently & was put straight by my grandfather as to how plane wings are made!! (He used to work at Vickers / BOAC). It subsequently passed the MOT!
(My grandfather was very good at sheet metal work) 😁
Yes, all those planes stuck together with rivets can't be wrong. Even the modern composite fuselages are made in three parts so they can be fitted out then they're joined into one tube with guess what - two orbital joints full of rivets. Never underestimate the humble rivet.
I’m invested in your project learning and interested. Enjoy every upload please keep them coming.
Thank you
Hi there, no worries there - there's still plenty to do. We're also going to unbox #139 early this year for an event at Elvington so that ought to be exciting and a separate set of videos. Thanks for watching.
Thank you, great stuff, as always.
Thanks for watching - it's fun making these short videos so if someone else is getting a little pleasure from it so much to the good.
Another great video, absolutely riveting!
Pun intended - I assume... 🤣🤣
You learn something new every day ! The pop rivet explanation, who knew eh,,,, well you did and I do ,, now 😆😉🏴👍
It's a snippet to use on your mates down the pub when someone says they mended their bike with a pop rivet. 😉
great imformation thanks keep it coming
Thanks, will do!
Found that interesting as usual. Good to talk indeed. I had a new customer today, a 77 year old lady who was a Nun at one time. She managed to tell me most of her life story in the space of about 20 mins. My goodness she could talk! As she was leaving I said ‘Tell me something Roberta, when you were a Nun, was it a silent order?’ ‘Yes’ she said. ‘Well’ I said, ‘ You’re making up for it now’ 😂
🤣🤣🤣 She sounds like a laugh.
Good explanation of the areas of influence for rivets. Have you come across butterfly rivets? Used quite a lot to repair materials where a normal rivet might pull through. If my ancient memory remembers, I’ll try and find one in the garage and post a picture on troll central, sorry X. Great video and very informative.
Hi Pete, nice to see you're still there watching our antics. You must get back up in the summer once we reopen the Kerosene Café.
Just out of curiosity is this a rennison rallyx car and if so where did you get it from as I can see Tinsley trailers on the rear clamp in the background. Also is it a complete car when you bought it cheers
That's the one - if you want the back story there's another video on the channel called 'I fell in Love With a Bonkers Car'. It's all there, warts and all.
what have you had in that mug at 8 minutes 20 seconds?
🤣 Nothing but tea but it's forbidden to wash it. It appals the crew but they didn't grow up on building sites in the North East or they'd know you never wash your tea mug!