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Jan 12, 2015 19:10:53 GMT
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Came home tonight and thought I would give making the next panel for mate Martin's truck a go. My piece of railway line that Woodsie got me years ago, again came in really handy. Can you say ANVIL ?? So using the sharp top curved edge, I started to bend the edge over. Of course putting a curve at 90' to an existing flat surface, meant the plate started curling up like the "Fortune telling fish" you get in Christmas crackers. So I took the hacksaw and cut slits in the edge of the curve, managing to complete the fold over.  Then drilled in the mounting hole for the fender in the plate. Using the step drills Ta2Don sent me last year. Amazing tools they are.  Next up I cut the lip back by about 8mm to get it to loser to the size needed on the truck. Then I welded all the cuts back together........ Using my mobile to get one of the best ever action pics in my opinion.  Then into the woodwork shed, to use my linisher to work it back to smooth and flat, flush.  Finished product, ready to be welded back into the fire wall.  Even if I say so, I am starting to enjoy this thing. |
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Jan 12, 2015 21:04:02 GMT
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Know who to come too when I want some panels making up. Mine usually make the 'Fortune telling Fish'look flat.... P.  |
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Jan 13, 2015 17:27:12 GMT
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Know who to come too when I want some panels making up. Mine usually make the 'Fortune telling Fish'look flat.... P. Thanks Paul, like I mentioned to you when you were over here, there is some stuff I can probably do reasonably well, then there are things like "suck-bang-blow" which I have never really figured out. It could also be a matter of beginners luck here. Always looking at re-purposing stuff I see. Saw this skip today. On closer inspection it yielded a bunch of large heavy duty extruded plastic "trays" which I immediately saw as perfect receptacles for the parts that I strip off the truck, or even in the garage loft as tidy storage. They have some extruded pieces inside with Velcro straps that seem to be set with double sided tape, not yet investigated fully. Anyway, I feel another big waste if not scooped up......  Size perspective.  Saw this somewhere before, and just rediscovered it again today, I do hope that someone helps her realise more than the declared value, should I bite the bullet.  |
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Jan 13, 2015 19:59:25 GMT
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Always looking at re-purposing stuff I see. Saw this skip today. On closer inspection it yielded a bunch of large heavy duty extruded plastic "trays" which I immediately saw as perfect receptacles for the parts that I strip off the truck, or even in the garage loft as tidy storage. They have some extruded pieces inside with Velcro straps that seem to be set with double sided tape, not yet investigated fully. Anyway, I feel another big waste if not scooped up...... You must have had quite an adventure to get those trays, sneaking underneath that portcullis and climbing across the ceiling! |
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Jan 13, 2015 20:35:38 GMT
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might have some spanners for you, maybe some big stuff,
cleared a garage last year and there was quite a bit that
we can't use cos we only do euro stuff
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Jan 15, 2015 15:44:43 GMT
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Always looking at re-purposing stuff I see. Saw this skip today. On closer inspection it yielded a bunch of large heavy duty extruded plastic "trays" which I immediately saw as perfect receptacles for the parts that I strip off the truck, or even in the garage loft as tidy storage. They have some extruded pieces inside with Velcro straps that seem to be set with double sided tape, not yet investigated fully. Anyway, I feel another big waste if not scooped up...... You must have had quite an adventure to get those trays, sneaking underneath that portcullis and climbing across the ceiling! How is it possible? that skip is holding all its curse word against the gravity pull. ITS AN AMAZING SKIP MIKE ! |
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Jan 15, 2015 21:20:17 GMT
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You must have had quite an adventure to get those trays, sneaking underneath that portcullis and climbing across the ceiling! How is it possible? that skip is holding all its curse word against the gravity pull. ITS AN AMAZING SKIP MIKE ! Not sure what you are seeing. Mine is correct way up.  The plan is to use them and some more 1/4 inch angle iron or wide flat bar to make the mounting irons for the new bumper to fit to, and then to also create a new towbar mount with a removable tow ball.
A few minutes with a flap wheel and most of the chrome on it came back with years worth of crud flying off.  Remember this??? Picked up a free Mercedes Benz A Class tow bar today. May just be right to incorporate into the trucks new tow hitch.  |
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Jan 15, 2015 23:41:59 GMT
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Hi, it looks the same from here, Definitely a magic skip!!
Colin
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Jan 16, 2015 19:53:37 GMT
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Pimpston65 saw the state of my ashtray front recently and then sent me a perfect one from his personal collection, refusing any payment. Thank you very much mate. Hopefully I can pay it forward soon. NOT SURE, BUT IT SEEMS THE SYSTEM IS TURNING PHOTOS UPSIDE DOWN AGAIN FOR NO REASON.... GRRRRRRRR!!  Also came home to another A4 Manila envelope today, opening it and expecting some drivel from work, I was pleasantly surprised to find two copies of the original electrical wiring diagram for the truck for Martin and I from Kerry "Disasterbus" Going to be useful when the truck gets its new EZ wiring harness. !  I started to look at fitting the Mercedes Benz tow bar to the truck when the new 67-72 rear bumper arrives. I just need to either find out, or figure out what the spacing is from the body to the bumper, and also the spacing of the mounting bolts so that I can create the new mounting bracket incorporating the tow hitch. I also want to weld in a US style square receiver for a removable tow hitch. This is what I currently have.   Chilly again tonight, around 3'C, clearly nothing compared to other parts of the country and world. |
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Jan 16, 2015 20:05:40 GMT
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Hi, it looks the same from here, Definitely a magic skip!! Colin WTF WTF?  ? I take photos with iPhone, email to iPad (works) and upload to Photopluckit, and still they turn upside down..... WTF?? Then I edit it on Potatobucket by 180' rotation and still shows upside down. I have no idea. |
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Jan 17, 2015 13:39:30 GMT
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Just to add that for me it was the right way up the other day and now it's upside down?!!!
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Jan 17, 2015 14:10:57 GMT
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Love the workmanship. Love the truck. Do you still wear a shirt and tie whilst spannering? Did I mention I love the truck?
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New cars. Who needs em.....
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Jan 17, 2015 18:03:10 GMT
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Being my Birthday today, Nicola my sensible, sensitive caring ..... you get the picture, wife actually gave me the day off to do whatever I wanted, including "Garage time " should I want it. You may remember that she had bought me the 3" Cutout Valves over the Christmas season for my birthday, so today she gave me a lovely card, and another book on traveling the USA plus she is taking me out as a surprise later. I have rotated the photos on my iPhone before sending them to the iPad to upload to Photobucket, and it seems to work, let's see if they suddenly revert to upside down in a week or whatever, I really have no idea why it is flipping photos upside down.  Mate Martin had bought himself a new oil cooler for the auto trans, then found an even sexier one last year, so when I offered to buy it from him, he wrapped it in some old newspaper and gave it to me for my birthday. Thanks Mate, way too much and too big, but the truck thanks you.  As Nicola had given me the day off, and my £500.00 travel vouchers were delivered on Friday, I decided that we needed to pop in to Thomas Cook Travel and get the tickets bought today, which would anchor the road trip for October's trip to Clem's Party in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I asked a lady to take the photo for me, and her reply was "This is a bit freaky" Hey, I don't care.  After the flights were sorted, we went down to Deptford in South East London to buy my white for the two tone the truck will be getting on its roof and the side flash. I have really had a problem with choosing the white. I wanted something traditional, like an Ivory or Old English White but it also needed to "pop" a bit against the Chrysler red I already have, without being a glacier white or pearlescent white. In the end I chose an older Mercedes Benz Alaska White Variant Y which I trust will make me happy once on.  Weird colours mixed to get there, included Red Oxide, Blue, Yellow.  In the end I spent the rest of the day with Nicola, a good investment in my long term life expectancy...... |
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Jan 17, 2015 20:28:26 GMT
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Hi, sorry grizz, the group photo is the only one the right way up. Perhaps you should get the lady to take all your pics for you!
Colin
P.S. Happy birthday as well.
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Jan 17, 2015 21:45:59 GMT
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'79 Cossie ran Cortina - Sold
2000 Fozzer 2.0 turbo snow beast
'85 Opel Manta GSI - Sold
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Jan 18, 2015 21:45:58 GMT
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Another day not wasted..... No real truck time, but a load of "Honey-Do's" ,completed, including a bunch of new pictures up in the study, after removing a 6'x5' picture I made a few years ago. Cartoons. Now need to find a new home for this piece, anyone want it, PM and collect in Rochester.   I eventually made it into the garage by 3pm. Because I know that I am rubbish at welding, but have a lot of open space welding to do, like fenders, doors etc as well as about 80 small holes just on the load bed, I know I have to practice, and also to set up my welder to make the most of the steel needing repairs. So I prepared some hood steel off cuts with a multitude of holes drilled and some slots cut in with a 1mm disc.   Welded up and added more holes, leaving the front like this   Rear penetration was good enough for me. Of course one can grind back afterward to tidy it up.  More practice needed, but I think it was the right thing to do. |
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Jan 18, 2015 21:46:41 GMT
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Thanks for all the good wishes guys.
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Jan 18, 2015 22:47:49 GMT
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Doesnt look too bad there
Spoke to an old gent, who looked very much like Terry Thomas at a show a time ago, who restored a 1930's Bentley.
And the subject went on to welding, He stoked his pipe, lit it up. Took a good intake, mulled for a while then;
'Yes welding...You need it to sound like bacon frying old bean, Thats when its at the right heat'
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'79 Cossie ran Cortina - Sold
2000 Fozzer 2.0 turbo snow beast
'85 Opel Manta GSI - Sold
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My truck has a huge, pulled dent in the passenger door, which has been repaired at least twice before. The holes in there where it had been pulled before, and the grinding back of the metal on more than one occasion, has left it quite thin, so I had planned on cutting out and replacing the section with a piece of shaped metal. During one of our Face Time chats ( don't you just love technology?) I mentioned this to Ta2Don over in Arkansas, and he came up with the brilliant idea of cutting the replacement section from his old door as he had bought two good doors for his truck. While we were talking about it, I also mentioned the holes in my door where 6x9 speakers had been fitted before........... Yesterday he was cutting up his old chassis which was bent beyond redemption with a plasma cutter, a job he seemed to enjoy tremendously, so while at it, he cut out the repair panels for my doors as well. Door skin section to replace messed up crease.  Remember this.....?  [/URL] [/a]  [/URL] Speaker hole replacement panels being cut out. [/a]  Spot welds drilled out (everything takes time ehhh? )   And finally, the harvest. Next up, package, post and Paypal......  Thanks again Don, you are making my life a whole lot easier. Looking forward to getting these welded in. |
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"Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire cat is perhaps the 1.9-litre 205's closest parallel, for like Carroll's fiendish cat, when the Peugeot is gone only the grin remains." -What Car? March 1987
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