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    I agree on the diagnosis, Hannes, but imho the solution will be to move more backward the front transversal steering arm. It should not touch the radiator case, and the front fastener should take place in this space. I will do the correction back home. Thanks anyway for this good observation. There is a lot of traffic between Slovenia and Croatia...
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    Thanks a lot, Hannes. 100% OK with your musical comment. Yesterday, in of the oldest church of Venezia, a baroque concert: Vivaldi, Corelli, Tartini, very good too (I am a fan of Vivaldi and baroque music, as of the Beatles...
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    Seen in a toy shop at Venezia: the mounting button on the bonnet for the fasteners is imho a bit thick.
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    Dear Nick, I think I see what you mean, and indeed, it is probably a fastener. But these springs are very strong, with coils very tight (see Dan's photo and the springs on the Vetturetta). Imho, such strong springs could hang over the frame without bending, not flexible at all.
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    Very good idea, Harvey! I am sure your 806 will be amazing like that, especially because you use mainly metal parts scratchbuilt. I look forward to see that! Cheers Olivier
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    I am at Venezia, no time up to now to read your posts, I will as soon as possible. Venezia is just a step before our stay in the north of Croatia. Dan, where did you find these great photos of the fasteners? they will be very useful for us, thanks!!
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    Aware the photos in SF book were missing to my comment above, I post them here: Photo 1: Cappa's 1925 Vetturetta: we may - especially on the lower part - see the coils of the front spring, because the photo is HR and taken closely. Photo 2: As soon as the photo is taken from a bit farer, the coils can't be seen and the same spring appear like a rod: Photo 3: We may think that, if this photo had been taken from a closer distance, we could have distinguished as well as on the Vetturetta the coils. More, the "spring" is more inside and in the shadow of the exhaust, what doesn't help...
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    You deserve your medal, Dan. However, I now have a doubt. Even a bit more than a doubt...It could finally be springs, as Fred said, as Hannes will choose, and maybe as I will finally choose too. Those who have Sebastien's book may understand my doubt, going on p. 136, 137 and 145. For the ones who don't have the book, on p. 136, there is a HR photo of the Cappa's 1925 Vetturetta. We can see springs, very tight but clearly visible. On p. 137, the same car is visible (profile view) from a bit more important distance. You can't see the springs on this photo, they are too tight, despite that the photo is HR too. And now, open your book on p. 145, you will see the 806 "rod", very thin, recalling so much the Vetturetta of p. 137. I think finally there is a spring. The Bugatti Dan showed to us seems to be a luxury model and not a sport one, what would explain that the engineers hided the vulgar springs into elegant tubes. Notice that these tubes are quite thick, while we have something very thin on p. 145. The spring inside the tube would be too narrow, too fragile. And, as Hannes said, why wrapping springs into tubes (I will add except for esthetic reasons on a luxury model). And to finish, it is maybe a view of my mind but, if you look very carefully at the 806 on p. 145, don't you see kinds of coils, very tight? Well, that's so, this build will have put us through the wringer from the beginning to the end. I must apologize, the kit, for this precise detail, was probably right, even if the spring is probably too thick (1,42 mm instead of about 1 mm imho). P.S: look, I don't say I am sure there were springs, I say there is now in my mind more than 50% chances it was so...
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    I have glued a strip of plastic card (5 mm width and 0,25 mm thick) at the front bottom of my bonnet (right for now, I'll do the same left), in order to close the gap I had between my bonnet and the radiator case. We can see such reinforcements inside the bonnets of the Delage, Bugatti... so it falls well. Then I have glued another strip (0,36 mm thick, this time) that extends a bit my bonnet. I have nearly closed my gap, I will have to fill, sand and paint again this area... It will be at my return... Notice the button, less thick than the first one.
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    Very nice photo, Dan, thanks! personally, no question for me to represent a spring with coils when I see a rod. I think it was either a rubber band, or more probably a spring in a tube. Your photo brings grist to my mill! P.S: what car is it ? It seems obvious that there is indeed a spring inside this tube. Bravo Dan, you deserve the 806 research medal!
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    Ok, I have to order tubes from this brand. I will order in the same these rods that I don't know... I have replaced my button, that was too thick. It is now 1,8 mm thick, looking better...
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    Yes sure, I am even thinking that I could make them myself, by turning a copper wire around a rod. So, they would be free and I could get the lenght and the diameter I want!.. and it would be free...
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    I got them, it is zugfedern for traction springs...
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    Yes, thanks, I found them. I could order 0,6 and 0,8 mm diameter. Pity, they are compression springs, I would prefer traction spring to have the hook at the bottom...
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    Yes, indeed, Hannes. I found on a french site, micro modèle, 0,9 mm diameter springs. I would prefer 0,8... I am trying to find such a diameter, whatever be the lenght...
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    Thanks a lot, Hannes. Imho, the tube should not exceed 1,1 mm, maybe even a bit less. I could use the 1,1/ 0,9 mm Albion brass tube. So the spring inside should be 0,8 mm diameter... I am afraid even in a short size (it doesn't matter so much if the springs is in 2 parts in the tube), it will be difficult to find...
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    Don't worry, Dan, my right bonnet will close correctly, using through others the flexibility of the plastic indeed. I didn't take a lot of care when I made this photo, there was the dst between both bonnets...
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    Photo 21 enlargement: I like Propeller's assumption. It allows me to connect what I see with logical and technical considerations. But: 1) why wrapping the spring in a tube? to protect it? 2) the tube is ever quite thin, a spring inside would necessary be still thinner. Would this spring be strong enough to hold the bonnet closed safely? 3) If I use a tube from Albion Alloys, maybe I could put inside a thin spring... Hannes, are there very narrow springs on Knupfer? (the kit's one is of course much too big).
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    Thanks Propeller, and I would agree 100% with such a solution. But for us, it would mean using a tube and not a spring to represent it. We are supposed to represent the visible part of things, not what is inside. Maybe there is a spring in the radiator hose, but if it is the case, it is in a tube, so we must represent the tube. What I say there seems obvious... So I will certainly represent the tube I see, on the right side. Now, what should I do on the left one? Maybe leave on the ground the tube with hooks of the inside spring at the bottoms...
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    Look again at photos 1AA, 7B and 7C (front "rod) and 21 HR, you can't tell me that this is a spring with coils! I go on seeing a rod, maybe metal, or at a pinch a kind of bungee cord. Furthermore, I see my button is too thick, I will correct this...
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    Dear Harvey, this is a good argument for a metal spring, indeed. Propeller showed us anyway on the Talbot G.P rubber bands, remember...
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    Thank you Fred for your contribution. When you say a metal spring, you mean with coils? I really can't see coils on any of our docs, even HR ones. I ever would rather see a flat leaf than a round bungee cord... but definitely, not a spring with coils. Of course, I know photos can mislead us, but...
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    Ok Hannes and Nick, we agree on nearly everything: 1) yes, there must be a groove between the button and a rivet over, in which the rod with the hook docks. 2) the front suspension is much thinner than the rear one (me too, Hannes, I had a bit forgotten your drawing of p. 146, that is just wrong regarding the chassis mounting point and the coils of an eventual spring) 3) there is no spring with coils but certainly a kind of bungee cord attached maybe by a hook at its bottom to the thin rod, and, as you say, Hannes, it should hang over on left side because my left bonnet is opened, as you did nicely on your Mef (even if it was not a bungee cord). I was probably wrong about a metal leaf all along. The problem is that the exhaust hides how the rubber band is connected to the rod. We can however see this connection on the front support, on photo 21. Some of the remaining questions are: - size of the button (imho about 3 mm diameter, but thickness?) - was it painted red? - what was used for the chassis mounting point? eyebolt? here too, the hook at the bottom of the bungee would dock to it. I tried to represent the rear support: 1) I filled the little hole that is wrongly placed 2) I made a 3 mm diameter 2 mm thick rounded support 3) on which I glued a 0,75 mm diameter 0,6 mm lenght portion of rod (Evergreen 210), representing the groove 4) on which I glued a 1,2 mm diameter 0,2 mm thick tin rivet Maybe my support is a bit thick... On the photo 3, it seems to be quite thick, but it is maybe too much anyway...
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    Do you think the "big button" was painted red? personally, seeing our photo 9, would say yes, the rod being metal...
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    As I said above, it seems we don't have the same construction for the front support than for the rear one. On the enlargements below of our photo 3, we can see clearly the "big button" on the rear support of the bonnet, recalling by its shape and size the knob of the steering wheel (we can compare on a whole view of the photo 3). But it is different on the front one, no "big button", but... what then?? Rear support: "big button" Front support: the construction is clearly different...
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