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« Reply #11685 on: May 17, 2020, 05:55:13 AM »

The screws can be marked, undone, cut down then put back sir 😁,yes I remember that bed,looks more like an undertaker's truck 😁..I was just thinking for the sides,the chassis etc. Could still be on show?  Anyway progress is being made good sir..👍
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« Reply #11686 on: May 17, 2020, 09:25:25 PM »

I ran out of copper pipe so had to spend 40 minutes queueing outside Halfords today to buy more. Then I spent the whole afternoon wrestling with it. Some creative routing going on here!
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« Reply #11687 on: May 17, 2020, 09:27:13 PM »

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« Reply #11688 on: May 17, 2020, 09:29:46 PM »

Spent ages working out which pipe connects to what. I think I've got it right!
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« Reply #11689 on: May 17, 2020, 09:38:59 PM »

For each step forward, there's at least one backward though.
I happened to glance at the steering wheel while I was hooking up pipework -what the?!!
The gloss black paint on the wheel has crazed all over. Not tiny hairline cracks, but dirty great big chasms. It was originally sprayed by the guys who do my powder coating, but then rubbed down & re-done by one of my brother's mates, who's a full-time painter.
It was fine last time I looked at it. I consulted with Loony & he reckons the original paint has softened in the recent sunlight. Bugger.
So now I've got to sand the whole thing right down to bare plastic & spray it again. I swear this thing's never gonna get finished Sad
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« Reply #11690 on: May 17, 2020, 09:39:52 PM »

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« Reply #11691 on: May 17, 2020, 09:40:30 PM »

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« Reply #11692 on: May 17, 2020, 09:41:10 PM »

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« Reply #11693 on: May 18, 2020, 08:33:19 PM »

Fitted one cable-tie this evening, (a bag of cable-tie anchor points arrived in the Post -plastic lugs that push into a hole & have a slot for the tie to slide through so you can tie stuff to flat panels, or truck chassis). I needed to strap a fuel line up to the chassis out of the way of the exhaust. Wasn't going to do anything this evening as I'm still working extended shifts & was knackered, but thought I'd wind down with a stroll to the garage to drop them off.
Fitted without damaging anything or swearing.
I called that a win & went home again Smiley
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« Reply #11694 on: May 19, 2020, 09:15:33 AM »

best to stop with a win
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« Reply #11695 on: May 24, 2020, 08:24:10 PM »

Slightly more achieved today.
It was a gloriously sunny Sunday, but I spent it in a gloomy garage with my head under the dashboard, making more brake pipes.
The remote dual circuit servo's behind the dash' because there was nowhere else to put it, but it makes the pipework kinda complicated! I'm not sure how much copper pipe is in a reel from Halfords, but I've just used up a 2nd reel & still have the pipes to the front wheels to go!
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« Reply #11696 on: May 24, 2020, 08:26:39 PM »

It looks like those photos of wartime bomber cockpits!
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« Reply #11697 on: May 24, 2020, 08:27:33 PM »

The steering wheel's currently at Loony's workshop, awaiting sanding down & repainting, which is handy cos it would've been in the way Smiley
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« Reply #11698 on: May 24, 2020, 08:28:35 PM »

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« Reply #11699 on: May 24, 2020, 09:36:04 PM »

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