Manky Monkey
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« Reply #540 on: June 25, 2015, 08:58:24 PM » |
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Damn, is there nothing you can't make Dave?!
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On the last freedom moped out of Nowhere City.
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« Reply #541 on: June 25, 2015, 09:05:39 PM » |
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cakes?
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You don't stop havin fun because you get old - you get old if you stop havin fun!
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« Reply #542 on: June 25, 2015, 09:17:14 PM » |
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My chocolate sponge cake is to die for.
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Getting older but no wiser! Just using bigger hammers. The answer to most problems, fire and lots of it.
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« Reply #543 on: June 25, 2015, 09:29:25 PM » |
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Send some up to Hertfordshire then
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Precision Guesswork ......... What else do you need?
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« Reply #544 on: June 26, 2015, 03:18:43 PM » |
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One done one to do. But I think I've made the overall diameter too big and it might cause problems with the bonnet.
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Getting older but no wiser! Just using bigger hammers. The answer to most problems, fire and lots of it.
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« Reply #545 on: June 26, 2015, 04:56:12 PM » |
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One done one to do. But I think I've made the overall diameter too big and it might cause problems with the bonnet. Oh shut up , I'm sure you will sort it out
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Why do every five minute job take all day, and if it can go wrong it will go wrong
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« Reply #546 on: June 27, 2015, 07:28:20 AM » |
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One done one to do. But I think I've made the overall diameter too big and it might cause problems with the bonnet. Oh shut up , I'm sure you will sort it out Too big! Started again. The bottom edge will still be a bit close to the bottom of the air intake bulge but should clear.
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« Reply #547 on: June 27, 2015, 04:15:03 PM » |
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See, you did sort it
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Why do every five minute job take all day, and if it can go wrong it will go wrong
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« Reply #548 on: June 27, 2015, 05:01:20 PM » |
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Yep Took most of the day though. Should have thought it through to start off with.
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« Reply #549 on: July 02, 2015, 08:15:34 AM » |
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The steel arrived for the rear firewall yesterday and I was making good progress until I ran out of welding wire. Might have looked better if the dimples were graduated, but that would have meant making three sizes of formers.
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« Reply #550 on: July 02, 2015, 12:37:49 PM » |
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* 100_3559.JPG (98.56 KB, 533x400 - viewed 36 times.) Tea bags from now on then! I'm curious how you attached the flanges to the sum tubes?
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« Reply #551 on: July 02, 2015, 02:35:23 PM » |
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I assume you mean the SU ram tubes. The flange bores were chamfered each side. One to match the tube taper and the other side a 45 deg. x 3mm and the tube end was swaged into this chamfer.
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« Reply #552 on: July 05, 2015, 10:44:16 PM » |
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Started stripping down the body so that I can finish some welding and paint the body frame and thought I'd see how much things weighed. The steel rear section (boat tail) is a bit heavy at 16kg but the alloy body panels only total 5kg and the bonnet and front sections another 8kg. Don't know what the body frame weighs, but taking axle weights with everything fitted so far and allowing for fuel, battery and all the bits still to be fitted, I think the vehicle should weigh roughly 1188 lbs. (540 kg). A Morris 8 = 1738 lbs. So should be 550 lbs. lighter
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« Reply #553 on: July 05, 2015, 10:54:22 PM » |
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Wow!
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« Reply #554 on: July 06, 2015, 09:02:04 AM » |
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Best bit is, combined with the engine change, the power goes from 39 to about 111 BHP/Ton. Not massive, but a decent improvement.
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