1946 Morris 8 Series E - off to storage

cool idea...nice to have the option in case you need it. does the gearbox slide out from under okay?

nicely done...love the shaping and template work...

JP

I continued on with the base plate

Tacked it in. Well, tacks a bit more. It'll take a few visits to get it all welded in without distorting.



so thought I'd start another plate



to go here. so the outside edge of the throttle foot has something to stop against and not go into the gap between the door bars




A plain sheet would be a bit dull though



into steel and cut the holes



clean up the metal and trim a bit



swageyness





start bending up the return



goes in here like so



clears the throttle and will help guide the food down



i didnt weld it in as i'm ot sure if I really need it, and if I do, am i better making it bolt in.

So onto some other metal work. Back to the tunnel

forget to take pics for a while

Bit of metal cut to shape with some lines on it



goes here



but needs some depth to give it some stiffness. Bead rolling time. Or rather stepping roller time.

Que nervous period as its been so long since ive used it!

came out ok



prime it



tack it in





End of this weeks progress.

So i'm starting prep for the migration from Phuckyoubucket. They really are trying to shaft people to make it really hard to move from them!

I've noticed the "Download album" button is now no longer available for your own albums! I emailed them and got an email back saying basically "tough" download one at a time. With 3000 photos this is some effort! F*ck you photobucket.

I checked my photo archives and had everything other than the first 200 photos or so. I've now manually downloaded the first 900 from my phuckoffbucket account, so will begin the slow process of re-populating the thread with pictures hosted elsewhere. Flickr most likely.

Anyway, less of the moaning and on with todays work.

Need a cover for here

PB254196 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

Start a template

PB254197 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

cut some holes

PB254198 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

will fit like so

PB254199 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

more lines

PB254200 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

some steel

PB254202 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

with added lines

PB254203 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

some steel

PB264204 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

fits like so

PB264205 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

start the second half of the template

PB264206 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

goes here

PB264207 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

mid cut out, and looking like an iron cross...

PB264208 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

mid way through being hit with a hammer

PB264209 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

and tacked on

PB264210 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

PB264211 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

and in situ

PB264212 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

PB264213 by jono_misfit, on Flickr]

i then gave it a quick lick of paint and put it to one side

onto the next bit of the pedal box, the supporting foot plate. The temporary bit is a tad heavy....

PB264214 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

some steel

PB264216 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

initial mark and trim

PB264217 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

starting to put some shape to it

PB264218 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

fits in like so

PB264219 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

however it needs stiffening up a bit so think i will bead some longitudinal beads in it. Which will have to miss the floor bracing.

Start marking up
PB264220 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

and run out of time :-)

I shall continue it next weekend. There may be some attempts starting now to begin migrating the pictures over.

ditto here...very nicely done

JP

Great stuff, love this build.

Re: Photobucket - not sure how tech savvy you are, but this page has some great instructions for grabbing all your images: https://gist.github.com/philipjewell/a9e1eae2d999a2529a08c15b06deb13d

PM me if you need any help.

Thanks for the link. Very helpful and very very simple to get the pics, no coding needed.

Basically select all the files in the photobucket, get the HTML link, paste into a text file, open the file as a webpage, and save as offline content. Done.

3500 pics copied back to my computer :-)

I "just" need to re-host and rebuild 31 pages of thread :-) Then I can say so long and phuckyoubucket.

The sad thing is that so many fora are now broken, people's threads that were built up over years and so full of priceless information are now screwed, posters have moved on, died or whatever. These bastewards are responsible for so much content being lost - the whole internet should boycott them and force them out of business.

ABC hosting (or whatever they are called) lost loads of stuff in a cock up of biblical proportions that completely deleted some of the fora I follow, these forums have never recovered and have gone from thousands of active members to just a few, Photophuckit's move will possibly be worse.

Pity there is no watchdog to police these things - private, not for profit, users should only pay for bandwidth used at the worst, not fourfrigginghundred dollars!

Rant over (for now).

Sorry jonomisfit

only a short session in the workshop today.

Started making a new flange

PC154245 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

to replace the end of this

PC154246 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

mainly as getting it all to work in a oner was proving impossible for me

adding some shape

PC154247 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

the two pieces in situ.

I drilled one hole on each, then used ball bearings to mark the other holes out

PC164248 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

tacked together

PC164249 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

filling the gaps

PC164250 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

and after a first rough pass with the grinder

PC164251 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

and in situ

PC164252 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

starting to get some of the gaps filled.

PC164253 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

It'll all be under carpet once done though

Then i started looking at the fuel tank mounts, which need sorted properly.

PC164257 by jono_misfit, on Flickr

I contemplated for a bit and have worked out what i'm going to do. I just eed to do it now :-)

great metal fabricating!