samta22
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Your routine ?samta22
@samta22
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Sept 30, 2019 8:00:27 GMT
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Whenever I can snatch some time at the mo If SWMBO is working on a sat then I can usually grab a few hours then, but as I don't have workshop facilities at home and it's a 40 min trip to where the toys/tools are, it's not something that can be as sporadic as I would like right now. Eves only really happen during the summer if I've escaped the office at a sensible time. That said I do try to give myself 'homework' whenever possible
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'37 Austin 7 '56 Austin A35 '58 Austin A35 '65 Triumph Herald 12/50 '69 MGB GT '74 MGB GT V8'73 TA22 Toyota Celica restoration'95 Mercedes SL320 '04 MGTF 135 'Cool Blue' (Mrs' Baby) '05 Land Rover Discovery 3 V8 '67 Abarth 595 (Mrs' runabout) '18 Disco V
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Nathan
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Your routine ?Nathan
@bgtmidget7476
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Sept 30, 2019 9:24:22 GMT
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Every weekend, I'd probably do every evening if the workshop was not 20miles away. TBH even if I have no rela work to do on the cars (that's a rare thing), I'll still go in there to get my "fix".
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Sept 30, 2019 11:23:35 GMT
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The cars I tend to look after are: - The family's 3 cars (1 BMW E61 535d, Saab 9-3 ; It was a Mondeo as well, but that's been replaced by a lease car which I'm thankful for.
- Mine ; So the M3, Merc and Mondeo
Maybe that's not as much work as some people have on here, but with a full-time job that involves commuting during the week, it does feel like quite a bit at times. Family stuff this year has also really limited my weekends. I was finding a similar drain keeping two 'daily's' (ford fusion/bmw e46) on the road, my motorbike(xj600), and trying to get time to work on the capri. Ended up cutting the e46 loose, which actually made quite a big difference overall.. Usually I spend a couple of hours saturday afternoon/sunday morning tinkering (basically after the weeks main DIY task has been completed!)
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Sept 30, 2019 11:46:54 GMT
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I do work if I'm in the right mood to enjoy tinkering. If it's not fun, I leave it until I can relax and have fun working through the niggles. I really don't enjoy being pressured to do a particular job on a set date. This... At the moment I'm on a crappy project coupled with a horrendous commute, so out of the house 14 or so hours a day. Just after I get home, Tania arrives back from school (or even worse, beats me there) so the three of us chat about our various day's for an hour or so, then it's heading bedtime. For me at any rate. As a consequence, I've been pretty lax and not "...in the right mood..." a lot. "Not this Saturday, darling, I'll be having a headache." Fortunately, the jobs that are there don't stop me using it. So they can wait until a more P38 friendly project comes along (hopefully in the next few months). The mood bit is so true though, even when time isn't a premium. I removed the air suspension valve block to replace all the o-rings (50+), took it upstairs and placed it on the dining room table. It looked at me and said, "You and whose army?" and I just knew that if I'd started then, it'd have gone over the balcony. The next day I was fine. Not a difficult job, but fiddly and needed to be done 100% right, first time. Same with the o-ring, seals and washer replacement on the ABS modulator. We glared at each other for a good two days before we started proctology. Then two hours, and done.
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Last Edit: Sept 30, 2019 11:56:29 GMT by georgeb
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Sept 30, 2019 12:38:35 GMT
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Up until 2016 it was an as and when I could get the time and have the money to do anything as the car was 70-90 miles away depending on where I was living at the time,
2016 the garage was finally able to accept a car and I would spend most Saturdays and the occasional evening depending on weather and how work was that day.
Since April I have been getting up at 6 to have an hour in the garage because I don't need to be at work till 9 and it's 20 mins away, it's been helpful whilst bodywork is being done as I can work quietly doing hand sanding or applying filler etc - if I didn't do this then I wouldn't be as far along as I am.
As I'm coming to the end of the bodywork phase and the mornings are much darker I don't know how much longer I'll do it for but I suppose doing a few simple jobs like connecting wires and parts would keep momentum going.
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1966 Ford Cortina GT 2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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Sept 30, 2019 15:59:00 GMT
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I try to do something each week. Trouble is I usually have something on every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, plus there's whatever social events we have fitted in around that. Add to that the possibility that when you do go to the garage you might not feel like doing anything so your project moves at a Glacial pace. Still, I am not governed by Mrs Bounce so I can go in whenever. She rocks. Edit: Oh, and the Rugby World Cup is on. So extra time needed for that too!!
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Last Edit: Sept 30, 2019 16:00:04 GMT by mrbounce
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Sept 30, 2019 18:55:32 GMT
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I think about doing some work on the project, then remember its 25 miles each way to it, with no power/water etc. in the garage it's in, then sack it off until the spring as the weather is looking a bit dodgy at the moment!
It's worked for the previous 2 years, so what's one more?
I'll go and put a dehumidifier in it next time I visit, but actually working on it, hmmmm.
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ChasR
RR Helper
motivation
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Club RR Member Number: 170
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Your routine ?ChasR
@chasr
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The cars I tend to look after are: - The family's 3 cars (1 BMW E61 535d, Saab 9-3 ; It was a Mondeo as well, but that's been replaced by a lease car which I'm thankful for.
- Mine ; So the M3, Merc and Mondeo
Maybe that's not as much work as some people have on here, but with a full-time job that involves commuting during the week, it does feel like quite a bit at times. Family stuff this year has also really limited my weekends. I was finding a similar drain keeping two 'daily's' (ford fusion/bmw e46) on the road, my motorbike(xj600), and trying to get time to work on the capri. Ended up cutting the e46 loose, which actually made quite a big difference overall.. Usually I spend a couple of hours saturday afternoon/sunday morning tinkering (basically after the weeks main DIY task has been completed!) With me, I guess I am keeping 3 dailies on the road with the Saab and the 535d to think about. The M3 I try not to have as a daily. But with my daily now being over 10 years old and me doing almost 20,000 miles a year, it's inevitable that it does become a daily at times. This year, even the Mercedes became a daily ; the M3 was at the unit 10 miles away, and the Mondeo decided its wheel nuts were too worn to stay tight right as I was going to work (my dad was borrowing that and he forgot to tell me...), and so I ended up having to use the Merc for a short while. Lately, the M3 became a daily as while my dad was waiting for the lease car, my Mondeo was used by him, and so the M3 had to step up to the plate once more. One day I'll buy a new or nearly new car, so as to take the edge off pending sorting things out (Merc sale, house purchase, possibly even M3 sale due to a house purchase) but for now, the cheap daily will have to make its keep.
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Last Edit: Oct 1, 2019 16:42:24 GMT by ChasR
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My routine.
Set month long deadline for myself to complete work ... manage about 3 hours in an 8 hour job. Put it back together and pay someone else to do it. At least that is how it has gone over the last few months.
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ChasR
RR Helper
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Club RR Member Number: 170
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Your routine ?ChasR
@chasr
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My routine. Set month long deadline for myself to complete work ... manage about 3 hours in an 8 hour job. Put it back together and pay someone else to do it. At least that is how it has gone over the last few months. Despite my moaning above, I started out just like that. But with time comes experience, and experience comes speed, and planning. Planning is the single thing that has sped me up alot and made jobs less stressful. It wasn't an overnight thing for me. My MGB build is a testament of that ; I forgot how long it took me to do some things on that.
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But with time comes experience, and experience comes speed, and planning. Planning is the single thing that has sped me up alot and made jobs less stressful. It wasn't an overnight thing for me. My MGB build is a testament of that ; I forgot how long it took me to do some things on that. Now days I can do the jobs, I've just got other things to do with my time, events, club, forum, programming, etc. So rather than spend 2 hours swearing at a stuck bolt, I'll let someone else do that whilst I spend two hours trying to make the club online system work properly* *still working on it... IT projects are always late, I should have known even mine are.
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stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,834
Club RR Member Number: 174
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Your routine ?stealthstylz
@stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member 174
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I'm at the stage where getting round to putting fuel in seems like a decent achievement towards maintaining the vehicle.
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I plan nothing but tend to get a little bit done at the weekends. I'm lazy too and if the job looks like hard work or I don't know what I doing which is often, it either takes ages to do or doesn't get done.
Currently installing a water/meth kit which I have for over three years! When I read some of the great build threads on here I'm almost embarrassed.
In actual fact, without the likes of this forum and the encouragement it gives me, I'd probably get less done. So, thanks one & all.
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Last Edit: Oct 1, 2019 22:11:12 GMT by Woofwoof
Still learning...still spending...still breaking things!
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Genuinely at the minute it seems to be "day before the MOT" and all too often "need to go to the MOT in an hour" - not the best time for fine detail work or planning ahead. Currently just trying to keep the half dozen I want to sack off in decent enough order to sell, so that I can use the ones I actually care about, and thus they will be due MOTs and I will have to fix them.
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Oct 30, 2019 20:27:58 GMT
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Last Edit: Oct 31, 2019 18:13:15 GMT by jesam
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Oct 31, 2019 10:48:52 GMT
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I'm lucky in that my teaching position since last September comes with a fully equipped workshop, so little jobs don't have to be done at home on the drive, I can just stay after school for a couple of hours. Bigger jobs like my various resto projects will take longer because I'm due to be moving further away from the unit that my Dad has taken over from me. Prior to becoming a dad myself I used to book a couple of nights and a Saturday daytime over there, but that hasn't happened for a couple of years now. When I'm in the new house I won't be doing much car stuff out of school until the renovation is finished.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Nov 27, 2019 14:00:09 GMT
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My routine is Tuesday and Thursday night after 9, after I put my 2 boys in bed, filled the dishwasher and got lunch done for the next day. I get 1.5 hour in per evening usually. It works as you get something done every week. If I don't do this fixed routine, a project tend to stagnate and forgotten about. Weekends are completely off these days, and rammed with family commitments, Home improvement ETC. Only my daily driver work gets done at weekends, but this is not much as it is a VW. I did the front shocks recently, got up at 6am on Saturday morning to do the LH one, and 6am sunday morning for the RH one, both done in time to have brekky with the family.
When I was single, it was a different life and I got some serious me time (and money!) for spannering. But I am happy with my current project and the boss is happy about me doing it without affecting family life.
Daan
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jonomisfit
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 49
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Your routine ?jonomisfit
@jonomisfit
Club Retro Rides Member 49
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Nov 27, 2019 18:03:10 GMT
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Generally sundays are my day, get out by about 9.00, then back in about 5.30.
Sometimes get a bonus few hours friday afternoons.
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reliantreviver
Part of things
"It will be getting fixed up come summer..." (year undefined)
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Nov 28, 2019 13:32:08 GMT
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I walk into the workshop. Trip over something. Stare into the abyss for a while, tidy a few things off the work bench. Weigh up the futility of it all and walk back out again.
That reminds me, I think I put a battery on charge last week. Better go check up on it....
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Current: Reliant "750" Super Robin, Scimitar SS1s - 2 x 1300, 1 x 1600, 1 x 1800ti. 76 years off the road between them! Also - Mitsubishi Galant Sport and Hyundai Coupe Gen3
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60six
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Nov 28, 2019 13:40:42 GMT
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If I can see my breath in the garage, Nope.
If I can't see my breath in the garage, Game on!
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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