{"id":3510,"date":"2021-01-11T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2021-01-11T17:25:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:25:01","slug":"turning-good-material-into-scrap-with-louvres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=3510","title":{"rendered":"Turning good material into scrap with louvres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hot day today so while it was still cool in the shed I thought I would try out my latest Ebay folly a set of louvre rollers that can be used on my bead roller.  I have been on the fence about these for a while but they dropped to $100 delivered so I thought I would give them a try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3512\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00002.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00002-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted some louvres on the bonnet sides of the Austin 7 Special hoping they would help with the cooling and look cool as well, really what is a special without louvres?  The problem I see with this method is keeping the louvre shape consistent as there are so many variables involved and one of them is me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3511\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00001.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/resized00001-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the picture above the first four louvres were experimental with different numbers of passes through the rollers,  then I tried to do four in a row by the same method as the fourth one. It worked OK and probably good enough for the Special although I may destroy a little more ali before I get to the main event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot day today so while it was still cool in the shed I thought I would try out my latest Ebay folly a set of louvre rollers that can be used on my bead roller. I have been on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=3510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin-7-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}