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Update log 3 - Plug and Play vehicles - unexpected consequences after mating season

A project log for Retro-futuristic automobile control panel

Conversion of dashboard from an old, Communist clone of the French Renault 12 (Dacia 1310)

skaarj[skaarj] 04/03/2016 at 14:450 Comments

Update log 3

Headache!!!!!!!

This is my sweet "Iron Princess". Or old lazy horse. Whatever. Hit and run accident. Temporary plug-and-play. I found it like this in the parking place.

Restoration work in progress...

Managed to put back the bent metal sheets.

Rust EVERYWHERE, smells like 1986 communism.

More rust. Everywhere rust.

I managed to remove most of the rust and I covered the remaining metal with rust-protecting paint. Not sure how to call it in English. Holes are still there. Will be covered later with some green fiber-glass goo stuff specially made for cars.

Rear-left. Disaster. I had to cut down everything. Some Aluminum sheet 3mm thick will go there.

Big hole in the right side below the wind shield. Some big big hole which collected water straight on my feet while driving. Also there's a big big hole under my feet and driver chair which I covered with some wooden rack (found in an old shower room at my work place). This is the communist equivalent of Fred and Barney automobile. At this time I can touch the road with my feet. In winter time it's crazy cold inside.

Rear-left. Aluminum sheet covered the big big hole. Rust-protecting paint applied. Green goo will follow.

Front-left. Fiber glass goo applied.

To wash all the grease I had to use engine fuel. No diesel. Benzine.

My wife really really hates that "rusty old junk". It is dirty, old, rusty, it smells like gasoline/benzine/petroleum, it's full of oil, the exhaust is a disaster, children throw rocks when they see it on the roads so from now I will have to work undercover. Yesterday I was caught and punished - no soup for me for all the weekend. Also I can't take a full picture of the car. I don't want to lose access to the bed or worse. Maybe next week when I will be able to finish the paint job.

In the mean time I'm trying to program 4 cheap Chinese rotary encoders on the same Arduino due board. No success, I can't make even one of them to work. Instead I made one work with an Arduino nano in around 5 minutes using interrupts.

Awaiting the PWM controllers from Robofun, one of the two Adafruit distributors in Romania.

Vacuum-tube sound equalizer is now work in progress.

No more news for today.

End of transmission.

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