{"id":1155,"date":"2013-08-31T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mogrod.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2013-08-31T12:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:26:50","slug":"seeing-clearly-and-digitally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Seeing clearly and digitally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple of updates for tonight.<\/p>\n<p>First off, a shiny new &#8220;rear script&#8221; emblem showed up in the mail Thursday. The original has the &#8220;n&#8221; snapped clean off and nowhere to be seen, so this will serve as a replacement. It will also be scanned in and turned into vector art for my own uses and to share with the Morgan owning community.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, the Morgan&#8217;s original dash (pictured below on my &#8216;new&#8217; Corvette hood) is off at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adv-laser.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced Laser &amp; Waterjet Cutting <\/a>to get scanned. They&#8217;ve got the tools to scan the whole thing and digitize the shape, so I can reproduce it on the CNC router at work. I&#8217;ll be using their waterjet services in the future, but the dash has rounded edges and other feature that they can&#8217;t do, plus I&#8217;ll be redesigning it some and will have to clean up the outline.<\/p>\n<p>Following that, as you&#8217;ll see below, I got the emblem out of the mold! It&#8217;s still slightly flexible after two days of curing, so I&#8217;m going to let it set out on the countertop over the weekend before I start attempting to clean it up any. It turned out quite nice, despite all the imperfections of the original (combined with this being the first time I&#8217;ve ever made a casting like this). I need to read up some on how to properly &#8216;fix&#8217; the casting, since it&#8217;s taken long enough to get to this point that I don&#8217;t really want to mess it up.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, on an interesting point, I&#8217;ve found out there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibreglass-mouldings-cambs.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">a company in the UK<\/a> that makes fiberglass &#8220;wings&#8221; (fenders) for the Morgan. I&#8217;m attempting to get a hold of them as I may be interested in just getting brand new fiberglass fenders (possibly front and rear) as opposed to currently spending the money to repair the originals. Both front &#8220;wings&#8221; have damage from the original accident, and the passenger&#8217;s side (left hand drive) is significant damaged on the leading edge. I have great quality rear fenders, so those may stay as metal, we shall see!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1155 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_212911.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[1155]\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_212911-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_213552.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[1155]\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_213552-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_213558.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[1155]\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_213558-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_213607.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[1155]\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_213607-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_090620.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[1155]\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130830_090620-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple of updates for tonight. First off, a shiny new &#8220;rear script&#8221; emblem showed up in the mail Thursday. The original has the &#8220;n&#8221; snapped clean off and nowhere to be seen, so this will serve as a replacement. 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