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« Reply #1815 on: January 26, 2010, 12:05:26 AM » |
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thats looking the bo****ks, looks better with the bed sides in.  |
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« Reply #1816 on: January 26, 2010, 09:01:22 AM » |
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oh dont get me wrong MM im not slating your work at all, its comming along very well and i like that you are using pannels from other vehicles and handles from other countries, i dont read hot rod mags so to me yours is unique
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« Reply #1817 on: January 26, 2010, 10:03:34 PM » |
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Nah I took it as a compliment!  Spent a couple of hours at the workshop this afternoon, but it was absolutely freezing there. I don't work well at low temperatures! Can't think straight when I'm shivering with cold. So Loony tacked the inner skin on the tailgate & started filling the gap between the flat top of the new skin & the frame, which I'd bowed out of shape with too much heat. This thing now weighs a ton! |
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« Reply #1818 on: January 28, 2010, 10:19:18 AM » |
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I nipped down to B & Q for some 30 x 4mm flat strap & hacksawed & hammered it into 8 curved mounts to bolt up under the mudguards. I've already bent some 20mm O.D ERW tube for the struts so now just have to marry the flat strap to the round tube. I don't want the flat bits to show when they're fitted, but need the clearance between the tyres & guards so don't want the round tube running underneath. So the tube needs to end at the edge of the guard & be continued in flat strap -if that makes sense.
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« Reply #1819 on: January 28, 2010, 01:00:16 PM » |
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you could cut a slot into the top of the tube for the bar to slide into , you could then weld the tube internally to give a clean interface between tube and bar ?
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« Reply #1820 on: January 28, 2010, 09:07:16 PM » |
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Yeah, I think it'll be something along those lines. Don't really want to cut into the edge of the guard if I can avoid it.
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« Reply #1821 on: January 29, 2010, 10:11:42 PM » |
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Sort of like this.
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« Reply #1822 on: January 29, 2010, 10:34:54 PM » |
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Sure is coming on a treat. looking foreward to seeing it at Basingstoke mate.
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« Reply #1823 on: February 01, 2010, 10:28:33 AM » |
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Sort of like this.
yep exactley like that |
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« Reply #1824 on: February 01, 2010, 11:19:24 AM » |
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Nice guards Andy what radius are they and where did you get them?,,,,,,,,,,Thinking Bike here!
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« Reply #1825 on: February 01, 2010, 08:00:05 PM » |
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i'll have a set andy!!! lol good work. |
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« Reply #1826 on: February 01, 2010, 10:21:10 PM » |
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If only I were that talented! Not my handiwork I'm afraid. They're the work of Mr Darren Goodgame from Oxford. He had a stand at one of the Beaulieu autojumbles, showing a complete aluminium bodied roadster he'd built. He works from a small industrial unit in Cowley, Oxford. Brooklands Bodycraft. brooklandsbodycraft@ntlworld.com01865-451914. I gave him the measurements by email, (16 inch wheels on the back & 15 inch on the front), but once he'd produced the basic shape we drove up & took him a couple of wheels & tyres to try them on. He'd assumed I wanted them mirror polished & quoted me 50 quid per guard -might sound a lot, but not bad for custom made, one-off products. There's a good few hours in each one. I've seen repro steel vintage bike ones at bike jumbles for 80 or 90 quid each. When I told him I planned to paint them, he knocked a fiver off the price of each one, so they cost me 45 quid each.
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« Reply #1827 on: February 01, 2010, 11:17:01 PM » |
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Spent a couple of hours this afternoon messing about with the guard. I had to notch the sides a little then drilled it & fitted the struts with a bunch of stainless M8 button headed bolts.
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« Reply #1829 on: February 01, 2010, 11:32:40 PM » |
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Got to bolt it to the axle now. I've cut a fan shaped 3mm plate & will knock up a clamp to weld to it & bolt to the axle.
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