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« Reply #2580 on: January 03, 2011, 10:59:01 PM » |
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mm is that your idea of a shed bloody hell its masive sir
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« Reply #2581 on: January 03, 2011, 11:26:03 PM » |
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The bigger the shed, the more stuff you find to fill it with.
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« Reply #2582 on: January 08, 2011, 07:52:01 PM » |
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Spent a whole afternoon earlier this week making a mount for the ignition switch in the fibreglass dash -then decided I didn't like the switch itself & binned the lot. It was a reproduction Lucas unit which also incorporated a light switch. Quite a bulky unit & I wasn't happy with the action of the switch -felt like the key was going to snap & didn't have a proper "click" when I turned it. So I've ordered a more basic one, along with the other Lucas switches I need.
While I wait for them to arrive, I made a start today on the windscreen demister vents.
I've already created the slots in the steel strip between the dash & the windscreen & got the chrome trims to go over them. Next I need to make up a pair of funnels to direct the air to the vents. No problem. Using an off-cut of 20 gauge steel sheet, (left over from the VW panels we're using for the pick-up bed), I wrapped it around a 1/2 inch steel bar.
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« Reply #2583 on: January 08, 2011, 07:57:48 PM » |
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2 of those will produce a 1/2 inch wide funnel shape once Mr Lunatic welds them together, (I'm rubbish at welding thin sheet).
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« Reply #2584 on: January 08, 2011, 08:27:49 PM » |
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Another strip of the same sheet rolled tight around the same 1/2 inch bar gave me a pair of tubes. We'll weld one into the bottom of each funnel to attach the pipe that'll duct the air from the vent outside the car.
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« Reply #2585 on: January 08, 2011, 09:16:52 PM » |
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We'll weld one into the bottom of each funnel
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« Reply #2586 on: January 08, 2011, 09:45:31 PM » |
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« Reply #2587 on: January 08, 2011, 10:07:19 PM » |
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more progress.
soon be finished.
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« Reply #2588 on: January 08, 2011, 10:38:49 PM » |
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Yeah, I remember saying that -about 3 years ago.
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« Reply #2589 on: January 11, 2011, 12:03:09 PM » |
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Vent funnels sorted.
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« Reply #2590 on: January 12, 2011, 08:37:37 PM » |
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very posh, home brewed as well.
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« Reply #2591 on: January 12, 2011, 10:42:03 PM » |
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Posh?! You haven't met us yet have you!
Vents scrubbed up a bit & given a squirt of satin black. Completely made from left over scraps.
The grey hose behind them is the air hose that'll connect them to the outside air intake.
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« Reply #2592 on: January 12, 2011, 10:50:53 PM » |
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The Matchless bike badge didn't quite sit flat against the Pop bonnet. So I cut a strip of tin & Loony tacked it in place to form a lip to cover the gap.
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« Reply #2593 on: January 12, 2011, 10:52:41 PM » |
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Held with a couple of stainless 5mm countersunk bolts.
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« Reply #2594 on: January 12, 2011, 10:55:04 PM » |
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wasnt that a new motor when you started customising it mate? lol.......looks good and a lot more progress made since i last checked this thread....Voodoo.....
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