The mini had bits of surface rust, nothing drastic, in fact it was more like a dusting but the photos make it look worse.
Anyway out came the grinder and metal prep from frost. That stuff is quite expensive but we use to use similar stuff in the army so that will do for me.
Then etch prime, primer and paint.
So again I had to break of from the project.
My brother in law lost his 18 day old baby girl to a rare heart condition, so I decided to take part in Toughmudder 2012 in the November to raise money for Alder Hey who looked after her in her final hours.
Whilst I got on with the gruelling training for the event that really was my bread and butter from my army days, my wife Lisa set about doing the fundraising side of things. She managed to get the papers, magazines and tv involved. They heard my story and that of Maddie and help us out so much.
Lisa knew that I had worked with some top operators in Iraq and one of them my good friend Dafydd Dennis owned Crossfit Cardiff. One email to him set of a huge chain reaction amongst the crossfit community. They all paid to do some crazy workout dedicated to Maddie and raised a huge amount of cash.
I completed Toughmudder and Lisa and myself with the help of everyone else that donated managed to raise £8000.
It was then time to get back to it.
I'd seen plenty of people welding in the Mk1 conversion plates and to be fair I didn't find them to bad.
