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« Reply #9615 on: July 11, 2017, 07:34:23 PM » |
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The garage alarm arrived. Should be 2 seperate components. Only one in the box. So now I've got to phone them tomorrow & chase up the other one. Why is nothing ever simple?!  |
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« Reply #9616 on: July 15, 2017, 07:56:50 PM » |
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The other half of the alarm's arrived. No idea how to fit it, but that'll be tomorrow's job.
Not much progress to show lately, but just gradually cleaning up & re-fitting stuff on the back end of the chassis. Tediously slow, but getting there slowly.
I'd still like to run with no pick-up bed on, just the bare chassis, just cos I like the look of it. Been thinking about making a weight tube up to bolt across the back of the chassis & mounting the number plate & rear lights off it. Just kicking ideas about -probably won't happen, but I've been wondering how much the steel pick-up bed weighs. It took 2 of us to lift it & walk it across the garage & 3 of us to comfortably lift it into the back of Chris's truck. How much would you guess that would weigh? I can lift the wooden bed on my own.
If I made up a steel tube 30" long by 4" diameter & filled it with lead shot, it'd weigh a bit under 2 stone, plus the weight of the tube itself, (3mm steel), plus it'd be mounted right at the back of the chassis -would that increase it's relative weight compared to mounting something further forward? I'm thinking of the leverage effect of weight hanging off the back end. I'd also need a platform to sit the front fuel tank on, which could also be cut from 3mm steel.
Just kicking ideas around as usual, but as I'm working on it, I keep standing back & thinking how much I like the look of it with a bare arse.
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« Reply #9617 on: July 15, 2017, 08:04:13 PM » |
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« Reply #9618 on: July 15, 2017, 10:20:11 PM » |
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I keep standing back & thinking how much I like the look of it with a bare arse.
Who doesn't like standing back and looking at a bare arse  ...........sorry.....taxi ! |
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« Reply #9619 on: July 16, 2017, 12:50:37 AM » |
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Just drive it without the weight bar and see first ?
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« Reply #9620 on: July 16, 2017, 08:42:15 AM » |
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Not sure how you got your lead weight figure (it would depend on the shot size) as 2 stone seems light.
With the price of lead it might be cheaper to use solid steel bar.
Roughly :-
100 mm dia. mild steel round bar = 61kg/meter. 30" = 0.76 meters
61 x 0.76 = 46.36 Kg = 102 Lb = 7 st 4 lb.
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« Reply #9621 on: July 16, 2017, 09:27:10 AM » |
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I knew you'd know the correct figure Dave  I just used an online volume calculator, multiplied by the weight of leadshot. The point is, the brakes were set up for the weight of the steel pick-up bed, so without it, they'll lock up all the time & my skinny crossplies don't have brilliant grip at the best of times. A hollow tube would be easier to work with cos I'd have to recess the front to take a flat plate for the number plate, (already got a length of 3mm plate that would do that), & weld captive nuts in the ends to mount the rear lights to -easier to do with flat discs welded into the tube afterwards. I could even run tubes inside it for the light wiring. Presumably it'd need a pair of heavy flat straps wrapped around it & bolting through the front & back of the chassis to support it. Just thinking aloud really -lots to do in the meantime! |
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« Reply #9622 on: July 16, 2017, 01:07:48 PM » |
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Just a reminder - you wanted to get this finished and on the road.
You'll NEVER do that if you keep thinking up new things to do to it!
Wasn't that what the wooden bed was all about, a temporary fix to get you on the road?
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« Reply #9623 on: July 16, 2017, 04:42:57 PM » |
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Yes Mum Still plodding on with replacing & refurbishing parts on the back end. Fuel system now sorted as far as the back of the cab, top 4 bar link rods repainted & rose joints refurbished, (a pig of a job to re-fit on my own. Many, many swear words were uttered & a few new ones invented). Also started treating the surface rust on the chassis under the cab. |
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« Reply #9624 on: July 16, 2017, 04:43:35 PM » |
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« Reply #9625 on: July 16, 2017, 06:31:46 PM » |
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Keep cracking on Andy |
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« Reply #9626 on: July 16, 2017, 07:53:34 PM » |
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Very slowly progressing, but each bolt removed means another trip to the bolt shop or several days wait from Ebay & every coat of paint means a day or two to dry.
I removed one lower 4 bar link rod today -can't take both off at the same time cos the chassis shifts position over the axle, which is why it was so awkward refitting the top ones. I've cleaned up & sprayed the rod, (powder-coated but looking scruffy), & regreased the rose joints & replaced the locking half nuts, (one right hand thread, one left hand). Now I need to find replacements for the rusted front rose joint bolts & paint the section of chassis they bolt to -that means wire brushing it, then a couple of coats of rust killer, a coat of zinc red oxide & a couple of coats of black. So it'll be a week before that one link rod gets refitted. Then I have to do the other side.
Depressingly slow, but at least it's progress.
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« Reply #9627 on: July 16, 2017, 08:29:44 PM » |
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Had a look at the alarm today. It needs a SIM card so it can ring you to tell you your garage has been broken into. It won't work on the 3 network. Guess which network I'm on |
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« Reply #9628 on: July 16, 2017, 09:28:43 PM » |
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You threw that phone in temper didn't you ?  |
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« Reply #9629 on: July 16, 2017, 09:59:59 PM » |
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You threw that phone in temper didn't you ? Well those Huawei phones look like bricks so Andy probably forgot it was actually his phone he was throwing!  |
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