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« Reply #10470 on: May 22, 2018, 10:48:15 PM » |
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Have you tried unbolting the light fittings yet.
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« Reply #10471 on: May 22, 2018, 10:53:17 PM » |
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 No -if they forgot to weld the nuts inside the tube it's going to be a bugger to cut it up again to retrieve them! |
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« Reply #10472 on: May 22, 2018, 10:57:09 PM » |
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Just take one out and see if it drops the nut.
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« Reply #10473 on: May 22, 2018, 11:01:20 PM » |
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Tomorrow's job |
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« Reply #10474 on: May 23, 2018, 05:49:26 PM » |
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When you go to A and C, see if they’ve done my wheels yet, please!  .....oops, just seen you went today............ |
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« Reply #10475 on: May 23, 2018, 06:05:46 PM » |
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No -if they forgot to weld the nuts inside the tube it's going to be a bugger to cut it up again to retrieve them! If they haven't welded the nut inside. you can drill a hole or cut slot at the back of the tube to get to them and tighten up. |
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« Reply #10476 on: May 23, 2018, 09:31:24 PM » |
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Nuts were welded, thankfully Clive, I'll be back there next week, so will ask them if you want. Yep, nipped over to Berkshire after work this afternoon & dropped the fuel tank platform off at the powder coaters. When I got back, I made up a pair of mounting brackets for the weight tube. Hopefully strong enough. 30 x 4mm steel strap. I'll get them welded to the tube then drill 2 holes in each straight leg to bolt them through the box section chassis, using crush tubes. I formed the circular bits in the time honoured way of bending the strap around the lamp post outside my garage |
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« Reply #10478 on: May 24, 2018, 04:58:51 PM » |
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« Reply #10480 on: May 25, 2018, 09:01:44 PM » |
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Don't know when they'll do my stuff, but will ask about yours when they ring me. |
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« Reply #10481 on: May 26, 2018, 09:15:06 PM » |
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Been a busy week at work & I've been getting home absolutely shattered, so not much progress for a few days. Managed to get the weight tube ready for the welder this evening though.
I've canablised the numberplate bracket I made for the wooden pick-up bed, which will now be welded to the front face of the tube. The numberplate lights fit on either end of the plate, (they're actually repro vintage tractor dashboard lights), but the wires come straight out the back of the housings. So I used my shiny new hole saw & put a couple of 20mm holes through the tube, then slid a couple of lengths of small bore tube, left over from another job, through them. That gives me a conduit across the weight tube for the wires to run through, exiting tidily at the back. It's a thick walled tube & is only a few inches long, so I'm confident it'll take the weight of the lead shot packed around it. I'll ask the welder to weld them in place & grind them back flush with the tube.
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« Reply #10482 on: May 26, 2018, 09:17:12 PM » |
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« Reply #10483 on: May 26, 2018, 09:21:27 PM » |
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It's a lot of faffing about, but hopefully it'll be fairly unobtrusive when it's done. I'll get it coated black so it blends in with the chassis, rather than making a feature of it.
The steel pick-up bed will go back on eventually, but I can see this being a long term temporary set-up. I've mounted all the lights from this tube though, so that I don't have to modify the chassis too much.
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