Started the week by cleaning throughly the glass for the fixed portion of the half-drop windows.  Noted that two are badly chipped,  I have one replacement so need to order another and the two original panes are badly scratched which is unfortunate.  Next I stripped the chrome from the four divider bars, removed all the old rubber and then painted the non-visible flat side with silver hammerite just to keep it fresh.  Final job was to start creating the missing frame section from one of the half-drop sliding frames.  This needed a new lower horizontal.  After a fruitless attempt to obtain some brass section, I found a surplus piece of aluminium that could be adapted to the job.  This was proceeding well.

I started the week by finishing off preparing the remaining window frames for final assembly.  They all had some touching up of the grey paint areas and fitting the top and bottom nylon6.6 strips, material for which has arrived.    I fitted the original glass back into the rounded rearmost offside window, with new rubber of course.  That was a tricky job; the only way that works is to fit the rubber into the glass then using washing-up liquid solution gradually easing it into the frame then pushing the rubber lib into the recess in the frame.  I noted that I had missed a welding repair so that will have to be done with care to avoid damage to the glass as I am not taking it out again!   I finished the week by preparing the waist panels on the offside, ready for priming before I install the windows.  The next job is chroming the half-drop window components and cleaning the glass ready for final assembly.  Unfortunately the glass I so carefully fitted cracked overnight so I am taking it out again but at least I can weld it now.

Continued with assembling the window frames, frustrated by the poor quality of these.  I could have made a better job for sure.  The first needed adjustment to bring the droplight slides into line.  The  second one I worked on turned out to be better dimensionally and need little fettling.  These are a long job requiring many holes to be drilled and trial assembly.  I completed two by the end of Friday and started on a third, which was largely complete by the end of the week.

Droplight frames awaiting building up and fitting.