I built one a few years ago now, not quite upto the standard of what I'm building today, just found a couple of photo's of it, it's the '66 1300 from Tamiya\ said:
The one I used for the Cooper was made by Detail Master, and was much finer than I have been using, but it went on o.k, I don't use a strainer, but pop the flocking in a plastic cocktail stick holder, and use Solvite wallpaper and border repair adhesive, it's PVA based, but it doesn't pull away from the edges like PVA does, once the glue is one, put the flocking on and push it down with a finger or a small wooden stick if your putting it in hard to reach places or corners, I usually do a couple of coats, once it's dried out, get a make up brush and brush the flocking in one direction, this picks up the pile, then get out the hairdryer and give it a blow over on a low heat.\ said:
I owned a Mini, in 1964. It was the worst car I can imagine. Really nice to drive, but: The gearbox!!%$£&. There were gears in there, but where? The pull chords inside to open the doors broke more than once, so many people simply slid open the window and used the outside handle. But in winter weather, the sliding windows froze. It was common to see people arriving at the works car park tapping on the window and a passerby would immediately know to open the door for the trapped occupants. I decided to sell it in 1968 and during the three months before offering it, I knew that three things would go wrong, one per month being the going rate. And sure enough, in the first month the windscreen wipers, then in the second the brakes (which failed completely and suddenly on a downslope leading to a main road, then in the third the clutch started slipping. In wet weather a newspaper had to be fixed over the radiator grille, otherwise the distributor got wet, and once when we stopped for petrol, the garage owner, noting the rain, said that Minis were already limping in. And all that is only the half of it. New cars at the time that we sold ours were still showing those and other faults. A fiasco!\ said:
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