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Hey Folks! Another week, another weekly chat, your place for stuff that may not warrant a full thread, or stuff that is just going on right now that you want to share. Well Gathering has come and gone, I've almost recovered and am now 100% all in on RR Forum stuff. Which means my 6 month late update of Club RR people and various sundry Club RR things will finally get done. On the forum side of things I need to move over to the new layout sooner rather than later I think. I've found a couple of issues that I'm attempting to get fixed in the next 24 hours, and then I may well just flip the switch and deal with the consequences (now I'm in a position to). The desktop mobile experience is much better, and will improve more over the next few weeks now I can focus on it. I might even get round to sorting my garage out. Really need to work out what I'm doing car wise, we need to change our daily to something a bit more economical and easy to park in the nearest town (which has very small parking spaces), but it is an absolute minefield trying to find something that does all the things we need a car to do. Oh and if you missed out on RR Gathering tshirts (or just fancy one because they look ace) we've got them back as a back-order until the end of August (when we'll do the final ordering) store.retro-rides.org/products/retro-rides-gathering-2023-show-t-shirt-back-order Previous Thread: forum.retro-rides.org/thread/225445/chat-thread-gathering-week-wc |
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Last Edit: Aug 21, 2023 10:03:28 GMT by HoTWire
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Aug 21, 2023 16:17:20 GMT
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On the subject of "Full Steam Ahead", this just passed.  |
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Aug 21, 2023 16:22:42 GMT
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I feel slowly like I am making a bit of progress with a few things, I have been busy as heck, need to update some build threads, and start another one maybe...
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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adam73bgt
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Aug 21, 2023 21:11:29 GMT
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"Full Steam Ahead" was rather apt for my weekend also... Spent much of it working on my other half's 207  Headlight polish, coolant flush as well as cleaning out the expansion bottle, AC condenser change, treated some surface rust, new boot struts, replaced a load of arch liner and undertray clips that have disappeared over the years and tried to stop the rear exhaust heatshield rattling. One AC pipe decided to snap off in the old condenser so had to find a good 2nd hand one and feed it into the engine bay, the knocks and rattles from the undertrays and heatshield haven't gone away (starting to suspect suspension might be playing a part in the noise also...), the coolant took an age to bleed. Thought I had it all sorted, took it for a test drive and all seemed well, until an EML popped up for an O2 sensor, while I was trying to clear that off with the engine idling, I looked up and saw steam coming from under the bonnet as the expansion tank had emptied itself over the engine  I think there was a rubber grommet on one of the lines into the bottle which I'd missed off so it leaked under pressure, found the grommet on the drive when I got back, fitted, refilled and it seems to be behaving. Now I'm back to trying to find reasonably priced Webers or Dellortos for the MGB |
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Aug 21, 2023 21:18:12 GMT
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 dragged this out of the barn though... |
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Aug 23, 2023 14:08:39 GMT
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Sometime around February one of my cars broke such that it wasn't driveable any distance and I just didn't have the inclination to sort it out. So in the ensuing months I only used it a couple of times locally while I figured out what to do which was probably to sell it. But then I couldn't really do that while it was broken. I think having a proper holiday last month (for the first time in 4 years) managed to re-set me to some extent and so I confirmed that the problem was likely nothing more than a dead prop UJ. A mega quick turnaround by Propshaft Services near Heathrow meant it was roadworthy on the Friday before the RR Gathering. I was actually going to take the other car but then on the Sunday morning it transpired that an engine mount had chosen that moment to fail in that one! So, Hillman it was to the Gathering. In fact I've now driven it around 600 miles in the last 9 days including a machine colleciton mission to Wiltshire yesterday. End result is obviously that selling is definitly postponed as its just too useful a car to let go. Just got to try and sort out all the other things that would improve it again.  Oh, and also this week, a car I got a lift to work and back in last year won a special award at Pebble Beach. Which is not something I'd have ever imagined I'd be able to say. |
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Last Edit: Aug 23, 2023 14:10:54 GMT by Seth
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Aug 24, 2023 10:19:24 GMT
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Oh, and also this week, a car I got a lift to work and back in last year won a special award at Pebble Beach. Which is not something I'd have ever imagined I'd be able to say. Are we allowed to see it?  Was great to see you at RRG. That machine looks fascinating too, what does it do? |
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Aug 24, 2023 11:06:36 GMT
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I'm trying to work out what it does too. Do you trace something on one side and it engraves a tiny version on the other side?
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Aug 24, 2023 11:39:07 GMT
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Thinking the same thing. Like a Sketch-a-Graph with an engraving attachment..  |
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Seth
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Aug 24, 2023 12:14:48 GMT
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Yes, its a pantograph engraver, capable (I hope!) of some reasonably accurate light milling. The master goes on the higher table on the right in my picture and the workpiece goes on the lower table. The arms are adjustable so that the ratio can be altered between 1:1 and 16:1. Its an English Machine made by Taylor Hobson who were first on the scene with pantographs at the end of the 19thC. I think this is a mid 1960s machine, probably last used in an industiral setting in the '90s.
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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vulgalour
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Aug 27, 2023 15:49:52 GMT
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  Been procrastinating over doing the rear brakes on the Princess for a while since it's a job I don't enjoy and I didn't have all the tools I needed. No excuse this weekend so cracked on. Re-flared the old brake line that had to be cut due to seized fixings (first time I've done that, went okay happily), fitted the new flexi hose, and got everything back together ready to bleed. Bleed nipple was all gunged up so cleaned that out and attempted to bleed everything only to find it kept gunging up. Turns out the wheel cylinder was full of some sort of goo so I could get fluid as far as it and no further. Removed it, learned the hard line going into the wheel cylinder is totally welded on and have had to order more stuff to replace that hard line and fixings, and then in the attempt to dismantle it to see if it was at all salvageable I broke one of the pushy ends. For reasons I don't understand, like the rear brake shoe fixing hardware, Princess wheel cylinders are stupidly hard to find. Ambassador ones are different, because of course they are, and the plethora of Mini and Mini-adjacent ones are also all different. I shall have to do this whole merry dance again when I do the other side. At least when I do the other side I'll have all the tools and parts I should need to resolve any issues I encounter. |
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jimi
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Aug 27, 2023 17:18:57 GMT
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SethLooks a lot like a Gravograph engraver, I used to use one at work for making labels for switchgear 
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Last Edit: Aug 27, 2023 17:19:36 GMT by jimi
Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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I think there was a rubber grommet on one of the lines into the bottle which I'd missed off so it leaked under pressure, found the grommet on the drive when I got back, fitted, refilled and it seems to be behaving.
