Old patrol roof rust repairs

[Nhoward]

Well... MudRunnerTD called it - the tent got trashed.
A couple of months ago we had the worst storm of the year, and at about 4am the top of the tent took off into the night. I was up to my eyeballs in my day job, so I let the patrol sit under the tarp for a while. Shortly after that, delta hit our shores and it was back into lock down we went. What fun.

What was there before:
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What resulted after:
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Fortunately the tent had started leaking, so I was in the habit of keeping the patrol under a tarp inside the tent.

Right then... If I want to progress this thing I need some shelter since the weather is still garbage.
Fortunately I'm known amongst my friends as that guy that hoards random useful crap (I often get calls along the lines of "hey we are about to throw out <random stuff> do you want it?) end result - I had some timber laying around.

I added "vaguely sufficient carpentry" to my list of random skills and constructed this lot:
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Excellent... somewhere dry to work, and with a much lower chance of it blowing away in the night.
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Right... now that I have somewhere dry to work, back to the patrol.

Fabricated what was the most irritating piece of metal in the whole project and started persuading it in to place:
part-from-hell-fitup.jpg

Welded it in:
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Fabricated the bit for the back right corner, then stuck that in:
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...and ground it back:
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Similar deal with the front left:
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Next up:
- Finish fabricating the piece for the back left corner
- Finish fabricating one tiny bit for the front right corner
- Pull the roof off again, clean up any of the welds that need it
- Prepare the corners with flux for brazing
- Final roof fit-up and far, far, far too many plug welds!