I know in life we never like to admit our mistakes and I wouldn't in this case either except I want this for posterity. While our company was in town and we were working on the floor there was a small miscalculation. The best way I could explain it is that we didn't get a very accurate measurement which turned out to cause a significant gap in our floor. Now Jim I know you read this so when you put your floor together jot this note down. Assemble it from the back and move your way forward. We chose to do it the other way which is part of the reason this mistake was made. but it logically makes sense to start from there because that was the part we could measure it from. But like they say hind sight is always 20/20.
So needless to say we couldn't save our two pieces that go up under the cowl because we took too much off of the one side. So in the coming days and weeks we will be making these pieces again. There is a plus side to building three cars we have spare parts! So although we make fun of my Father for thinking and analyzing and then analyzing about thinking. Had we let him do this a little bit more the outcome may have been a little bit different.
There were more mistakes made on this car but we're going to walk away with our dignity and our heads held high because we are men and we don't ask for directions. And apparently we don't read tape measures either.
Chad - good to know what you and your dad are learning. If you have a picture of two that shows the learnings that is great. I assume that what you learned was that to get the dimensions correct for the gate and doors you started the floor at the back and moved forward. Here is my email so feel free to email me with more detail. jimborchers@gmail.com
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