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Sept 26, 2011 20:24:07 GMT
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I was awake from about 1am this morning with a cough, post nasal drip and general body aches, so went to work doped up to the eyeballs with cold and flu tabs, vit C, paracetamol today. When I got home tonight I was knackered and ready for bed by 6.30pm, in stead I went to check up on the paint drying on the frame of the kart....... famous last words. I managed to clean and paint all the little brackets, get all the new screws, nuts and bolts sorted, had my dinner and then sneaked back to the garage to complete the re-assembly. Done for tonight, my head is throbbing and bed beckons. I still need to fit the number plate, make up some racing number board, fit all the stickers and and wait for the paint to dry. Then it can go back to its waiting driver. I have to say it worked out to look a lot better than I anticipated, based on what I started with.
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Sept 26, 2011 20:25:49 GMT
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PS: Note the light pull on the brake handle.
Still need to find some pubber hose to slip over the actuating surface.
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Sept 26, 2011 21:34:48 GMT
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I was at the scrap yard and there was a Raleigh Dirt Cross go kart, in good condition. frames similar. Always thought about getting a go cart and stretching the frame, looked like 20mm frame tubing. then fitting bike gearing. so get a bit of speed out of it. I don't think a Go kart with moulded plastic tyres would be suitable for that tho. as they make a racket. and wear thru.
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Sept 26, 2011 23:27:55 GMT
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PS: Note the light pull on the brake handle. Still need to find some pubber hose to slip over the actuating surface. I'm very jealous of the pace you work at. I'd easily spend a fortnight just mulling over something like that before mustering the motivation to start stripping it. Nice touch with the brake handle. I seem to recall the brake on my go-kart was just bare metal rod bearing onto the "tyres" though. It actually wore down faster than the plastic but that might have been due to the amount of grit embedded in the treads after endless handbrake turns on the flagstones at the back of the house. (Not sure mine was a Kettler though, just an Argos special. Happy days. It met its end being unsuccessfully J-turned right into a fencepost. Ow.)
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Sept 27, 2011 18:08:38 GMT
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Today Nicola was shopping somewhere and found a noisy, irritation hooter for the kart. Perfect.
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iant
Part of things
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Sept 27, 2011 19:43:43 GMT
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Fast progress here! It looks absolutely cracking. No doubt the lucky lad will be delighted.
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Sept 28, 2011 7:12:01 GMT
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Fast progress here! It looks absolutely cracking. No doubt the lucky lad will be delighted. I hope his dad and he will be pleased. Ultimately, one can buy a 2nd hand one off Gumtree for anything from £20.00 and Ebay has some 99p starts..... so surely cheaper than, but not as much fun as a resto. Also customised is a lot better in my view.
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Sept 28, 2011 7:16:58 GMT
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Dungbug, Calamity, It is not always like that..... took a year to pull my finger and get the garage sorted. Only when Nicola bollocked me did I get on with it, before that I used to dig around till I found the right tools, now I can go in there in the dark and pick up anything I want.
Getting on with jobs is nice, as it frees you up to start a next one, rather than having 10 unfinished projects looking at you accusingly.
Once I have done the stickers (still looking for some nice cheeky ones) it will be done.
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Sept 29, 2011 16:13:05 GMT
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cool my little brother had one,we broke it jumping off the kerbs on carlton hill in herne bay, good times
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Sept 30, 2011 17:25:18 GMT
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I was at home today doing clinical trials reading and summarising, (part of my job) By 5pm I was done and had hit the wall wrt taking stuff in, so perfect time bail out and get into the garage to complete the little pedal car. I wanted to add some sort of structure to the front and found a piece of thick clear perspex that was part of the previous owner of the house's ski-boat. I measured, and cut it with the diamond blade on the angle grinder, then sanded all the edges smooth on the beltsander. I had planned on getting Edison's (the little guys name) initial or name onto the kart some or other way. So I used some gold spraypaint I had bought at a sale in January and sprayed a big patch on the rear in gold. On the front I used masking tape to lay out the "E" after the gold dried, it was covered with 2 coats of gloss black at the rear and once that dried, the front got 3 coats to, over the masked section. Fortunately the day has been hot and dry, so the coats dried reasonably fast. Next up was a small plate that came off a scooter years ago, Blue plastic, covered in grey undercoat and then Yellow, Red and Black, as a nod toward the German origins of the kart. After all the paint had dried, it was time to start the final assembly, and most importantly adding the stickers. Nicola had searched Ebay to find an skull and chequered flag themed sticker and came up trumps. The other stickers came from my collection of allsorts. When completed I took the kart into the house and plonked it on the coffee table for Nicola to inspect...... Happy to report that she was both pleased and a bit impressed with the final outcome. On the way back to the garage I thought a pic of the unflattering rear would do as well. I hope you guys have enjoyed this little resto report. Next up, indoors decorating the weekend.
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iant
Part of things
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Great job Grizz! I wasn't sure where you were going with the perspex initially, but it looks amazing all together. Love the completed look with the stickers.
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Great job Grizz! I wasn't sure where you were going with the perspex initially, but it looks amazing all together. Love the completed look with the stickers. Hi Ian, I tested the paint on an offcut piece of perspex first, to see how well it stuck to the perspex, seems the chemicals bond and melt into it, as you cannot scratch the paint off it at all. I wanted to make a space for stickers, but also change the look a bit, which i think it succeeded in doing.
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Hah, I had my old one out of the attic the other day and gave it a damn good service to give to my niece, mine's looking a bit more tired though and required some welding due to me cracking the chassis after mounting an engine on it as a kid.... I think I've got a spare gearchange lever somewhere if you can find the rest of the mechanism to fit (although, it only lets it freewheel anyway)
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dungbug
Posted a lot
'Ooligan!
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Good finished product Rian, hope the little lad appreciates it (no doubt he will). ;D
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Past: 13 VW Beetles from 1967 - 1974 Bay Window Campers (1973 & 1974) Mini's (1992 Cooper lookalike & 1984 '25 Anniversary) MK2 Polo Coupe S (1984 & 1986) MK2 Polo Breadvan (1981 & 1984) MK4 Escort (1989) MK2 Granada Based Hearse (seriously) Fiat Uno 60S (1986) Punto 60S (1998) Cinq (1997) 1998 Yamaha YZF600R Thundercat 2003 Ford KA
Current: 2004 Ford Focus (barely alive)
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Great work there.
I too had one as a kid (must some right of passage for small boys (note to self, build one for my boy)) and rode the curse word out of it. Many many happy memories of that old cart.
Lewis
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beav
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I don't visit this forum often but I always check out these "other" projects when I do. Go carts bring out the boy in most of us car guys, I think... Great build, thanks for sharing..
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Ill just leave this here
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Nobody dies a virgin, because lifes curse word us ALL
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Yeah, that's why I had to weld my chassis back together...
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Almost the last pic in this thread..... Found the little guy a "Racing suit" at the bootfair for 50p - Bargain.
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