Project Trig - After 18 Months Away, Is Back In Town! by Mini 360

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Cheers!  Just got to make them work now

Rare moment outside meant I could get some blasting and coating done.  Not as much coating as I wanted but it got too late to be using the compressor (garage shares a wall with neighbours conservatory which they use every evening)

Had the front disc and hub assemblies off for blasting and coating so I decided to tidy up the brake discs whilst they were off.  Standard affair, rusted in the usual places.

Gave them a quick blast, outgas for half an hour and then masked up for coating.

Turned out pretty good for being a cast finish.  Should stop them rusting up nicely.

Made sure I plugged the threads as its a pain in the arse to remove powder from threads.

Drive flanges are alloy but still want to protect them a bit.  Few rusty marks from mating parts cleaned up and will get coated later today.

Hubs were rotten.  Hammerite clearly doesn't last like it used to 

Blasted clean ok though.  Masked the ID so the surface finish was retained.

Steering arm also got a clean up, again for coating.

I actually bought my drive flanges second hand and they did say they put their old wheel studs in as they were fairly new.  What he didn't say was they were damaged when they were put in....  Thankfully not expensive to replace but glad I removed them to check.  Might see if ARP do Mini studs, if not, standards will do.

Also gave the drive flange bolts a clean up and will coat them too.

Nothing really groundbreaking update wise but I'm chipping away at stuff when i get a chance.