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« Reply #5415 on: January 04, 2013, 09:35:49 PM » |
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more progress, thumbs up from me.
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« Reply #5416 on: January 04, 2013, 09:41:39 PM » |
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Not a lot of progress, but getting there.
Loony was off work today, at the tattooist, getting some more body graffiti done. So I spent the afternoon cutting various fill-in pieces for the gaps between the edge beading & the bodywork, ready for him to weld in.
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« Reply #5417 on: January 04, 2013, 09:47:13 PM » |
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Steve Brock laser cut me a bonnet badge to my design last year. Being flat, it didn't sit on the curved grille shell properly. So we've welded in an oval plinth for it to sit on. Again, hopefully by the time it's filled & sanded & painted body colour, it'll look like an original body pressing.
Tried to buy some clevis pins for the door lock operating arms today cos space is limited inside the door & we needed something thinner than nuts & bolts. Couldn't get any locally, so they're on order from Ebay.
I'm on holiday for a week from the 14th of January, (the week after next), so I'm aiming to get the MOT done then.
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« Reply #5418 on: January 05, 2013, 06:16:02 PM » |
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Bit like a jigsaw puzzle, your motor!
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« Reply #5419 on: January 05, 2013, 08:49:00 PM » |
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Precision Guesswork ......... What else do you need?
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« Reply #5420 on: January 06, 2013, 10:01:33 PM » |
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MOT! a milestone  |
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« Reply #5421 on: January 06, 2013, 11:01:15 PM » |
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Gotta be done as part of the vehicle registration process. The SVA test we've already done was actually more basic than the MOT, so there's a few bits we need to sort first. Have to get it MOT'd on the chassis VIN number cos we haven't got a reg' number yet. Not sure how the testers will do that though -test it as if it's still a 1953 Ford, or as a brand new vehicle? The engine's late 70s. Once it's got it's Q number plate, I'm told a lot of garages test Q plated cars to 1973 standards, when Qs were first issued. Should be interesting.
Loony ran out of welding gas today &, being a Sunday, he can't get a refill till the morning. So I busied myself by making a few bits for him to glue together later. Repairs for the exterior door handle mounts, using new M5 bolts, screwing through repair patches cut from the spare doors, into threaded backing plates.
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« Reply #5422 on: January 06, 2013, 11:05:54 PM » |
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Lots of repairs needed around the door openings. Several strips of steel cut & bent & twisted to follow the lines of the bodywork, to tie the return edge of the opening into the "roll cage" framework inside.
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« Reply #5423 on: January 07, 2013, 08:21:15 PM » |
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Realised the door opening repair pieces I cut yesterday were cut to the height of the old door. We chopped the roof by 3", but ended up buying a pair of doors from Ebay that'd already been chopped by 4. The window openings are more in proportion to the windscreen size. Means we have to lower the top of the door openings to suit though. Fortunately Loony hadn't welded the fill-in strips yet, so I re-made them this afternoon. Yeah, I know, measure twice...  |
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« Reply #5424 on: January 07, 2013, 08:33:59 PM » |
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« Reply #5425 on: January 07, 2013, 08:48:53 PM » |
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All part of his master plan he tells me. I didn't know we had a plan.
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« Reply #5426 on: January 07, 2013, 09:29:42 PM » |
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Yeah, I know, measure twice... Real men measure and cut  |
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« Reply #5427 on: January 07, 2013, 10:35:15 PM » |
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-then fix it afterwards.
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« Reply #5428 on: January 07, 2013, 10:39:55 PM » |
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Saw that on a "T" shirt in a shop in Barstow one time
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« Reply #5429 on: January 07, 2013, 11:27:12 PM » |
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LIVE FAST and DIE YOUNG,, past 50 AND STILL HERE NOW. WAITING. FOR. THE. GRIM. REAPER
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