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Episode: 3098
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Title: HPR3098: Matchbox Restoration Part 3
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3098/hpr3098.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 16:39:33
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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 3,098 for Wednesday, 17 June 2020.
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Today's show is entitled Matchbox Restoration Part 3.
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It is hosted by Tony Hughes, aka Tony H1212,
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and is about three minutes long
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and carries a clean flag. The summary is
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in this the third in the series, Tony Discuses, dismantling the castings of the MK10 Jaguar.
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This episode of HBR is brought to you by An Honest Host.com,
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Thank you very much.
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Good day, all in Hacker Public Radio.
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This is Tony Hughes, coming to you again from Blackpool in the UK.
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To recap, this is the third in the series of shows about my hobby of restoring matchbox
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and other die cast models. In the first two shows, I introduced the concept
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and discussed the tools and other equipment you would need to start this hobby.
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In this episode, I've decided to return to where it all started,
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with the matchbox number 28, the Jaguar MK10.
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If you're following this on the audio, please refer to the show notes for the pictures
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of the processes we move along. You can see in the first picture
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the four castings used in the process. This is a lovely little casting
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and a nice introduction to the techniques used in the process.
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Also, I have several of these that I can strip down to use their components
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and that should give us enough quality parts to reassemble,
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at least one good example at the end. Hopefully, one or two more.
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The next picture shows you the base of the model,
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and there is a mushroom post that needs to be drilled out at the rear of the model.
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The front of the base is retained by a tab, which once the post is removed,
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the base releases, and this can be slid forward for it to free the tab.
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I drilled out this post, and the post is drilled out with a four millimeter drill bit,
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and as you can see in the next picture on this particular casting,
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I was a little over zealous and damaged the base a little.
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Although as it is the base, it's not too much of a major issue.
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I then released the base by grinding it off the remainder of the post
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with a small flat-ladied screwdriver to leave it off the body.
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This allows the removal of the inner plastic forming the seating
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and holding the small plastic suspension piece.
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In the next picture, you can see the casting without any internals,
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but with the plastic window unit still holds in place with another shallow mushroom post.
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Being very careful not to be too aggressive with this mushroom holding the windscreen unit,
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this is removed again with a four millimeter drill bit,
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so that little pressure from a flat blade,
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slid between the roof and the glazing unit will allow it to pop out without it breaking.
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It usually takes several attempts of a little drilling,
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trying with a flat blade, then if not coming free, a little more drilling,
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and repeating again until it pops off.
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This process was repeated with the other three castings
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and the resulting shown in the next picture.
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As you can see, the casting in the upper left of the images still has the bonnet
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or huddy beer in American listener attached.
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This would not come off without me risking damaging it,
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so I was hoping that once the paint is removed,
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that this will help it to come free.
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You'll have to wait for the next instalments to find out what happened next.
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I've got to keep you waiting for some more of this rumbling tale,
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so until next time, this is Tony Hughes saying goodbye to all those in HBR land.
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Keep safe until the next instalment.
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Bye for now.
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You've been listening to Hacker Public Radio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
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We are a community podcast network that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday.
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Today's show, like all our shows, was contributed by an HBR listener like yourself.
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to find out how easy it really is.
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Hacker Public Radio was founded by the Digital Dove Pound
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and the Infonomicon Computer Club,
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and is part of the binary revolution at binrev.com.
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leave a comment on the website or record a follow-up episode yourself.
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Attribution, Share a Life, 3.0 license.
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