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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Frogeye bonnet weight

How much does a Frogeye bonnet weigh. After converting a Spridget to bonnet struts it is time to look at doing the same with a Frogeye.
Alan Anstead

Alan sorry I cannot help you with the froeye question but could you give me some details of your spridget conversion with some photo's, it is something I would like to do on my midget.
Thanks Ian
I Pickering

Alan sorry I cannot help you with the froeye question but could you give me some details of your spridget conversion with some photo's, it is something I would like to do myself.
Thanks Ian
I Pickering

About 60 kilos,recently changed mine for a fibre one , rose 1 inch on susp. cheers, Alistair
A.G Peters

Alistair thanks
I Pickering can you e-mail me at alan dot surname at BTopenworld dot com and I will oblige with an article I wrote for Masc magazine.
Alan.
Alan Anstead

Alan,

Would you be able to pass the article on to me also please? andrew dot fraser at transgrid dot com dot au.

Thanks,

Andrew.
AndrewF

Andrew. It is coming down the wire.
Alan Anstead

60Kgs

No wonder Sprinzel had a hard full of them! (Ref Spritely Years).

A
Anthony Cutler

Why is mine 34,2 kg? (It is a steel one, including loom, lights and paint)

Flip
Flip Brühl 948 frog 59

34.2 or 60 Kgs , somebody has a lot of filler or rust . Is filler lighter then original steel ?
R Mcknight

55 kgs with the 3 supports and just tried a second spare one at 52 kgs! Andrew Hedges always said they weighed about 1 cwt.(50 kgs) after lifting one off a mecanics neck!
Alistair
A.G Peters

This thread was discussed between 02/04/2010 and 07/04/2010

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