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« Reply #8715 on: June 14, 2016, 08:29:00 PM » |
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With the floors out I can finish off the rubbing down in the cab & around the door openings -assuming it ever stops raining long enough.
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« Reply #8716 on: June 15, 2016, 07:51:47 AM » |
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Don't you have access to a welder Andy ?
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« Reply #8717 on: June 15, 2016, 08:30:16 AM » |
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Yeah, but not a Mandrel pipe bender.
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« Reply #8718 on: June 15, 2016, 08:37:43 AM » |
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Surely somebody near you can bend those pipes for you ? I'm thinking you just like to get out for the ride  |
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« Reply #8719 on: June 15, 2016, 09:22:35 AM » |
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Actually, I do  He's fast & reliable & only about 20 miles from the powder coater that I was going to. |
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« Reply #8720 on: June 15, 2016, 12:19:45 PM » |
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great to see your enthusiasm back, great progress andy.
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« Reply #8721 on: June 16, 2016, 08:29:02 PM » |
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Another gratuitous pipe shot for Mr Stinkey -they've got holes at each end mate. Collected the stainless silencers from Torque Technique in Wiltshire after work this afternoon. They've made the angled inlet pipes for me & flared the ends so they'll fit inside the silencers for a better welded joint, (I'll weld them, or more probably Loon will cos he's way better at welding thin sheet than me). They also tweaked one of the motorcycle exhaust pipes they made last week too. I'd planned to rub some filler down this evening but drove back through torrential rain & 2 feet deep floods, so no more progress today. |
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« Reply #8722 on: June 16, 2016, 09:34:14 PM » |
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Well worth the drive out mate,shame to hide it under the floor? Guess you could put some HOLES in the floor ?  |
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« Reply #8723 on: June 16, 2016, 10:13:52 PM » |
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« Reply #8724 on: June 19, 2016, 11:34:54 AM » |
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Floor panels are back from the powder coaters & in storage in the lock-up garage till I've finished filling & painting the bodywork. Also need to scrub as much rust as I can off the chassis, weld new exhaust mounts on & paint the chassis with rust inhibitor & black enamel.
Not sure I'd call it enthusiasm Chris. Struggling to push myself to keep plugging away at it, but if I don't it'll never get done. When I look back at photos of it when we first started though, (8 years ago!), it's come a hell of a long way.
Me doing the work, Loony's Dad & PD watching.
Loony cutting, his Mum & PD.
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« Reply #8725 on: June 19, 2016, 11:37:21 AM » |
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PD & me.
Loony welding the roof chop.
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« Reply #8726 on: June 19, 2016, 11:38:17 AM » |
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Making it up as we went along.
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« Reply #8727 on: June 19, 2016, 11:40:07 AM » |
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We built a fully functioning, fully legal truck from this, (with an awful lot of help from some great friends), then drove it to Europe & back.  |
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« Reply #8728 on: June 19, 2016, 02:02:48 PM » |
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Ha ha I'd forgotten the scaffolding!
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« Reply #8729 on: June 19, 2016, 08:36:34 PM » |
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Gazebo poles. Not really rigid enough cos we had some issues fitting the doors further down the line, but it worked. Found this snap of the chassis rails. I had them made up by Jimmy at Valley Gas Speed Shop in Berkshire, (now moved to Hampshire), cos we wanted to make sure they were straight & level & true. Then we extended the back by about a foot & dropped the front by 1 1 /2". Seems a long time ago.
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