chris3
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Oct 25, 2011 18:36:20 GMT
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Looking forward to seeing another teardrop build. I've a chassis here from a recently scrapped ABI if it would be of any interest. Holding myself back on a major want for your caravan
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Volvo 440 Disco TD5 Disco V8 Jag XJ8
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chris3
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Oct 25, 2011 18:40:17 GMT
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Just checked - It is 4.5 metres long, total width is 2.1metres, 1.55 between wheel arches (still has wooden arches and floor on).
Mechanical brakes, with handbrake, jockey wheel and lockable coupling
Chris
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Volvo 440 Disco TD5 Disco V8 Jag XJ8
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Oct 25, 2011 19:02:08 GMT
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Grizz, I would be concerned about the fire risk, incase a stray spark, or bit of smouldering timber should find its way into it. Try burning a small bit and see what happens. If even remotely flamable I would cover it with hardboard, ply or even better plasterboard. Mickey came home with about 12 sheets of 2x8 foot sound deadening insulation material he had scrounged for nothing today.... to help me insulate the shed. No idea what they are worth in the open market, but is still means FREE and a saving. May even skip on adding hardboard cladding to them once fitted inside the frames. Builder types..... can one leave this stuff (bit like dense foam) open and exposed as insulation, or should I cover it over a bit?
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recarouk
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Oct 25, 2011 19:07:35 GMT
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Mr Grizz sir, spanking caravan you have bagged yourself there. if you can get your hands on a pressure washer with a bottle attachment (or even better a foam lance) a soaking with TFR and a good blasting should be enough to remove the thick green stuff, and use a paint brush for the nooks and crannies, then a few coats of wax should have that baby looking like new Thanks mate. Now..... what is TFR ?? as others have said, its Traffic film remover. something like this www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20L-TFR-TRAFFIC-FILM-REMOVER-CAR-CLEANER-BEST-SELLER-/280733130930?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Car_Care_Cleaning&hash=item415cffa0b2which i have bought in the past is good stuff, whack it in a pump sprayer and spray it all over, let it run a small amount, then either brush, or sponge off. but don't do it bare hands, always wear gloves as it will eat your skin. its very strong stuff. i know 20Litres sounds like overkill but its handy for all sorts of stuff, i reckon even your mate mickey might "borrow" some from time to time to clean down his van with
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Oct 26, 2011 16:21:12 GMT
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what a cracking van, if it does turn out to be unsuitable let me know if you decide to sell I would love to roll that for weekend breaks
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Oct 28, 2011 23:17:49 GMT
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Yesterday I worked down in Southampton, and on the way home I went via Hastings, which added about 20 miles to the journey..... The previous night someone had listed a belt/disc sander with a Buy It Now price of £60.00 I very quickly Googled the model and reviews ..... The machine was now selling for £400, and the motor has gone from a 3/4hp to 1/2hp, the one I bought is 3/4hp. When I got there the seller was an artist who bought the machine 8 years ago and never used it. Seems there were quite a few other people who wanted the machine, some from as far as Manchester. Loaded the machine and drove home.... chuffed. It is the last large machine I plan on buying for this Arty woodwork lark. Nicola and I still have to go to Dover tomorrow to collect an older Pillar Drill I snagged for £63 last weekend, again, right price in my view. These tools will all come into play with the teardrop build and making custome bits fo rit. Today I spent most of the day with Nicola as she has the week off, and I signed a day leave. By 4.30pm she cut me loose to go play in the garage or shed. I got going with the insulation of the shed, cutting bits to fit tightly between the timbers, thus allowing me to screw stuff in there later. I think I am going to give the cream coloured stuff a coat of white emulsion paint. The silver in front of the workbench will stay like that. I also framed the doors and filled the gaps with this stuff. Another thing was to remove the steel shelf from where I had screwed it into the timbers and insulate behind it. Spoke to Nick the caravan donor earlier about feeling bad about stripping the caravan, but after a healthy discussion he convinced me it was the right donor. The front right has had a knock in the past, had damp and as a whole the caravans exterior has passed its Best By date. I will start removing bits and storing them in the Transit inside the garage, so that everything stays dry at least till they are needed in the build.
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Oct 29, 2011 11:12:58 GMT
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Interesting stuff Grizz. Can't wait to see how this one turns out.
I have only ever managed to 'customise' a caravan on the inside ( a 25ft Tabbert which is now a 2 berth complete with 'lounge') but I'd love to build a tear drop.
Thread bookmarked and awaiting updates. Keep it up mate
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1980 Derby GLS 1992 Rover 216 Gti - Sold 2006 Hilux - Sold (boo hoo) need a 2wd pickup. Anyone? 2009 Avensis Tourer - Gone 1993 Mk1 Golf Cabby 1983 mk1 golf. Project rust bucket 1998 Toyota Corolla. Project crash repair 2007 Volvo V70. Daily for sale!
Looking for a winter project - any suggestions?
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Oct 29, 2011 19:58:04 GMT
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Interesting stuff Grizz. Can't wait to see how this one turns out. I have only ever managed to 'customise' a caravan on the inside ( a 25ft Tabbert which is now a 2 berth complete with 'lounge') but I'd love to build a tear drop. Thread bookmarked and awaiting updates. Keep it up mate Thanks mate. I guess we all have something we do well. I just tend to do stuff because I want to , and often cant be bothered to pay out to have it done.
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Oct 29, 2011 20:24:29 GMT
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This should be the last tool I buy for the shed and toward this build Today we went down to Dover to collect this pillar drill I won last week in the last few seconds on Ebay. Got there by 10.15am and ended up leaving at about 11.30am. Seller was selling on behalf of a gentleman who according to the Ebay ad "cannot use my tools anymore due to ill health" When we got there, Louise who was the seller on behalf of the owner met me and took my inside the house to introduce me to the owner...... He had COPD, which in itself is a killer, but on top of that he had been told this week Thursday that he has terminal bowel cancer, aged 72. I was amazed at finding him and his wife completely at peace with the fact that he was going to die sooner than later. What amazing people. He had been offered a few hundred pounds by some dealer type a few weeks ago to clear the double garage/workshop, then Louise picked up the batton and started putting his tools including the drill I bought, a Myford lathe and loads of other very good oldskool tools and some modern stuff on Ebay. One of the older tools made £1300, and others made £900, £600 and various surprise prices..... thank goodness for people like Louise taking the time to help these people sort out what would have been a mess for his wife when he dies. One of the things the old guy wanted was to sell his tools to people who could and would use them, the price was less important to him than the tools living on. While we were there he also offered me a massive unfinished dolls house, complete with all the parts to complete it, right up to the wallpaper, roof thatch and stairs etc for nothing. I had no interest in it and told him, but Nicola's dad had built a few over the years, and when I told her, she called dad and he instantly vollunteered and said he would have it and complete it over winter. So the Dolls House and 2 boxes of extras was loaded into the car, to be delivered when we got home. Nicola's dad was saying that a dolls house with all the bits, plans etc, like this would cost in excess of £300 today. The drill took 3 of us to get it into the car, and at home Nicola and I managed to get it out the car and onto a skate board, then I drove/pushed it down the drive to the shed. I called Tom to come help us get it into the shed and onto the table...... he came and after hardly touching it, stepped away and said "I can't do it" , so I moved it into the shed and later Mickey and I got it up onto the table. Large claw hammer in position for perspective. This pillar drill was way bigger than I thought when I bid on it on Ebay, so for what it is, I think it was a bargain at £63.00 The plate shows 3 phase, but the motor was replaced at some point with a 1/2hp single phase motor. My plan is to strip all the old Hammerite paint off it, and to paint it the same colour as the lathe, after oiling and lubricating it and fine sanding all the open metal. I think I have now run out of space in the shed. Mickey suggested I dig out the garden and add another shed for tools and storage.
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Last Edit: Oct 29, 2011 20:26:58 GMT by grizz
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Oct 30, 2011 19:37:53 GMT
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Haha, the old 'I have just got a shed and already need another for all the stuff I have just jammed in it' I currently have 3 of various sizes A very nice collection of decent tools you have amassed there. You should be able to do almost anything you fancy with that lot.
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luckygti
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Great collection of tools there Grizz. I have a feeling the new pod will have some very fine and ornate fittings Caravans are definitely the way to go for camping stuff. I kitted my old VW Van out with scrap caravan innards, in fact I still have the cooker somewhere in the garage!!
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Haha, the old 'I have just got a shed and already need another for all the stuff I have just jammed in it' I currently have 3 of various sizes A very nice collection of decent tools you have amassed there. You should be able to do almost anything you fancy with that lot. LOL @you. Mickey was over a couple of times again yesterday. He was saying as well, that the tools I have managed to gather should get most jobs done. Also , more importantly, at the price I have been able to buy most, I could sell them on again and get my money back, which is nice to know, should Nicola ever need a pedicure ;D
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Great collection of tools there Grizz. I have a feeling the new pod will have some very fine and ornate fittings Caravans are definitely the way to go for camping stuff. I kitted my old VW Van out with scrap caravan innards, in fact I still have the cooker somewhere in the garage!! Hi mate, sorry, been a bit on the run this week, having a job again means I do not get to do all the stuff I like or love to do. The operative word for the new build will be "LIGHTWEIGHT" so as much as I would love to add loads of little "Grizz" touches, it still has to be towed by a 20 year old girl with a 1.0 liter Suzuki Alto. With the donor caravan I now have a spare cooker/oven to sell on to make up some cash toward a chassis and materials for the Surf-Pod.
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I have previously mentioned publicaly that I Love my wife. (Yep, I am forunate) Yesterday I was busy doing some more finishing on the shed, painting the ceiling hardboard a couple of coats of paint, putting up some shelves etc. At one point I went up to the house to make a cuppa tea as Nicola had gone to the shops and to see her parents, so naturally I drifted upstairs to the internet with my mug of tea and some vanilla cream biscuits...... Just as I settled, she came home and found me upstairs...... She asked me how much I loved her..... to which the answer was pretty predictable, she then went downstairs, disappeared out the front door and then came back upstairs and said she was sorry, but she had become an "Honorary Womble" and produced a whole jockey wheel assembly from behind her back. Seems that when she came out of the road where her mum lives she saw it lying in the road, she turned around and went to fetch it for me...... Now this is an item that would cost anything up to £35 incl postage on Ebay and elsewhere...... What a girl !!! One less item to purchase for the build. In other news, the second time Mickey came around today, he again gave the shed a look while I was fitting some random shelves (You never have enough shelves, do you ? ) and asked me why I did not move the white steel shelves over to the right, next to the lathe.... that would be the third time it has been shifted since I got the shed up. However, it did free up some space to get the belt/disc sander closer to the rear wall, and also made more space available in front of the small workbench which I had finished earlier with a 26inch or 660mm wide sheet of plywood. I have an electrician coming this week to fit the mains power to the shed (As Nicola said I was not allowed to do it, due to insurance etc) which means no more extension cords. Started to prep a bit of kitchen worktop offcut, which gave me a 200mm diameter blank, this will be a test piece to see if I can survive the lathe, or if it can survive me..... It is now 03.00 and I guess I should get back to bed. Even the cats are waking up.
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Last Edit: Nov 6, 2011 3:05:08 GMT by grizz
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iant
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Great progress. The woodworking room is looking complete. That jockey wheel find was superb!
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Great progress. The woodworking room is looking complete. That jockey wheel find was superb! Thanks Ian, I am really happy. The woodwork shed makes my heart and head happy. I started a seperate thread, but here is where the shed is headed. Having been made redundant in January after 14 years with the same company, I have realised that it could happen again. So I had been thinking of stuff or jobs I could do that are fairly self sufficient and would pay the mortgage while I actually enjoyed what I was doing. I love to work with my hands, enjoy woodwork and with the next teardrop build taking shape I thought it would be an option to start doing "Artistic Woodturning" as I have some tools and am happy to learn or make it up as I go along. The type of work that people who know what they are doing in wood turning are turning out blows my mind, I also know that there are people who will pay for the time it takes to make stuff. To this end I started my first little plate today. Keep in mind I have not touched a lathe in around 20 years, so it was purely a test piece. The pleasure was instantly back as I remember it was when we built the Grizz-Pod..... wood dust and the smell of oak being worked takes over the senses and made me grin madly inside my dust mask. The bit of laminated oak offcut from a kitchen worktop was cut to shape and then screwed to the backing plate, after which I started to work the base, followed by the top and bowl. When I was done I showed Nicola who promptly took it from me and plonked it in the lounge with a candle in it..... probably the most expensive candle holder we will ever have if you add the cost of the tools and shed together. Clean workspace..... the last time you will see it like that. Offcut piece of oak kitchen top from Mickeys fire wood pile, not the best piece of wood to start with, but the challenge of oposing grains and a hard wood made for a perfect test piece. Cutting to shape, this bandsaw rocks !! For once in my life you will see me adhering to Health & Safety for my own comfort... the dust and flying chips are a curse word. Getting there means getting dirty. Up close.... Not having bees wax at hand, I came to the house and asked Nicola to sacrifice one of her zillions of candles..... the wax is not easy to work with as it has hardeners etc in, but still brings the life out in the wood more than if I left it just natural. And of course in use once she had claimed it for herself. Hopefully the future will see nicer and more refined pieces come from the shed, and more importantly, pieces I can sell to suplement my mortgage payments. Comments welcome and advice accepted. Also any tree surgeons in the Kent area, I will be looking for wood and intersting bits of trees. So please PM or post up if you have interesting stumps etc about.
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looks fantastic to me,though i'm useless with that wooden metal stuff.
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theres more to life than mpg & to much power is just enough.
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skinnylew
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Rian I will keep an eye out for any of our trees being felled although they've just done a load recently. That candle holder looks brilliant I dare say your mortgage will get paid off with compensation when they build Sir Norman Fosters new airport?!?!?
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damask
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wow, makes me want to get back on the lathe! (i backed off after getting my thumb caught between a half sanded chair leg and the toolrest.... serves me right for being lazy and leaving the tool rest on lovely scar...) that first teardrop looked amazing, cant wait to see this one! also, as you need it lightweight, what about using some of the alloy/tin from the caravan as a skin for it? it wouldnt take alot of reshaping? you have the curve and sides already.... even a window and sunroof
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Rian I will keep an eye out for any of our trees being felled although they've just done a load recently. That candle holder looks brilliant I dare say your mortgage will get paid off with compensation when they build Sir Norman Fosters new airport?!?!? I would hope the airport never hits here in our lives Tim. The life we have here is good, and my setup is great. Have you heard anything about parking meters since the last time we chatted? Other than felled timber, the other thing that works well is old broken furniture as the wood is often exotic, dry and matured etc.... table legs, tops etc can all be worked, laminated into shapes that are good for the lathe.
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