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Looking at the pics Rian I would go red with the thin whites. Think white with white walls will look a bit....meh... What about black with the wide whites? Or the picture I sent you of then red truck with the white roof with black wheels and the chrome trim and caps? However.... If the boss says red.... P.  Hi Paul, you are right, the thin whites will go on because they are already paid for (off the smoothies) I think black walls with red rims are good too. Fortunately the red is in good condition, so will stay like that, one can always change them to black at a later stage. I am very partial to 2" whites for the smoothies, as they are less common but also do not overkill on the white. |
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Rian, Racking my brains and trying to remember where I have seen exhaust tip like that before.... Have a look at a BMW X5  P. |
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Rian, Racking my brains and trying to remember where I have seen exhaust tip like that before.... Have a look at a BMW X5 P. Thanks for the call earlier Paul. I have ti ask though, are they standard ones? Pretty though. |
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A lot of Mercedes (particularly AMG) have rectangular exhaust tips as well,  These ones might be a bit pricey though... |
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Those Merc tips are nice, but would be wildly out of my price range. Took the trims, centre caps off the wheels tonight. Mate Jabbo will be collecting them all at 05.30 tomorrow morning, removing the tyres and disposing of them for me by lunch time, delivering the naked wheels later in the week on his way to work.  Martin, always being helpful has suggested I get the wheels blasted and powder coated at £50.00 wheel, including fitting new tyres (well, the ones of the chrome smoothies) Will check out if the price is sensible first before jumping at the opportunity. With Paul Y over next weekend to sandblast (well, walnut shells) all his suspension parts etc, Martin and I assembled the blasting cabinet I bought the end of last year, this week. Word of warning, it was bought from a large importer who supplies others and just adds their badging, but when we unpacked it, most of the paint had blistered, so if you scratch or push on the paint, it flakes off badly. I just could not be bothered with exchanging it as it would probably mean taking time off to get the new unit delivered and this one collected. Still, it is ready to work.  |
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Have I mentioned I love my wife? No? Let me explain...... When I met Nicola it took her about a week to realise that there was free cash all around, if you chose to see it and pick it up. A few moths ago I came home from work one evening and she said "I got you something today" Nice, I thought..... Chocolate or a T-shirt. She pointed out the kitchen window and there was a slightly mangled temporary road sign and a frame. It had been up the road in a ditch of some time, probably a year or more, and she thought it good to drag it home for me. The sign was straightened out and the frame went to my steel stash pile. Today I needed some steel to make a wheeled frame for the sand blasting cabinet and fetched that bent frame. After standing on it a few times, I had some decent donor steel.  Some cutting and welding later, after running out of welding wire, getting the tension right etc, we had a result.  So now with the blasting cabinet on wheels, it means getting it out of the garage solo is a charm.  Also finished bare metalling the front end of the cab window frame today, hopefully Martin will make it back through the Dartford tolls as he seems to have lost the Dart tag to get through the Tollgates, though I may have been the last one to handle it. So that he can supervise my priming the frame for paint this week some time, if the weather holds out. |
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to be frank, ignoring the paint issue the blasting cabinet still looks 100 times better quality than the machine mart toott.
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to be frank, ignoring the paint issue the blasting cabinet still looks 100 times better quality than the machine mart toott. These guys supply to everyone else, and just add their badge or sticker to it. I am more concerned with function than form to be honest. |
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Got a PM from Scot "Jabbo" earlier with pics of the process he went through today to remove the tyres from the Rallyes. Thought I'd drop you a couple of photos as requested. Apologies the pictures are a bit crappy. A combination of poor lighting in the garage and only a camera phone means you're not going to get top quality results. For info purposes I'm using a Sealey TC960 Tyre changer. It's a pretty poor man's version, but you can pick them up for around £50 brand new if you shop around, and it's got a bead breaker too (though if I'm honest at some point I'll beef that up a bit as it's certainly the weakest part of the changer). Step 1) Deflate tyre. Step 2) Use bead breaker on front face;  The tyre changer really should be bolted down to make life a lot easier, but I couldn't be bothered to move everything to get my mounting plate out, so just used some good old fashioned brute force. Step 3) Flip over and repeat;  I chucked a blanket down so as to make sure you're wheel didn't get scratched. Step 4) Mount on tyre changer and lock into place;  Step 5) Lever front of tyre over the wheel;  Step 6) Do the same with the back;  Hey presto, seperate tyre and wheel.   Also as requested, please find attached a picture of a hairless Sphinx cat in a sack;  Thanks mate, this is a great help. |
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ha ha who's peeled the cat? or did the testing in the blasting cabinet get a bit out of hand? |
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ha ha who's peeled the cat? or did the testing in the blasting cabinet get a bit out of hand? LOL !!! Good observation, he is one of Scott and his wife's three hairless Sphinx cats. |
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Manual tyre changer is a handy bit of kit, never knew they existed, would it work on alloys without damaging them or is it best kept for steels ?
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Thanks for those pics, never could imagine how this works, seeing now that it seems so simple! Thanks goes to Scot for taking them and writing up the process as well as emoving the tyres for me. One of the reasons I write up my thread is that I learn from others, and hopefully people can learn from here too. |
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Paint on the frame dried, I mounted the blasting cabinet on it this morning and grinned when I pushed it outside. Easy easy.......  Mate Martin was going to come and supervise the primer and masking up of the screen frame. Of course nothing goes to plan. So, the spot blaster for the small rust sports did not quite do the job getting into all the crevices. Martin's ongoing insistence (read badgering) that I could not paint rust, eventually meant we agreed to stop wasting time and I will get his blasting pot this week, and do the rust everywhere on the cab before prep, filler, etc. So to his great joy, I agreed to remove the doors..... It really made me feel like there is no going back, but of course it makes sense as the glass in the doors will not do well with random blast media hitting it.   After Martin left, I tidied up and removed the bench seat as well.  Now things will have to start happening, looking at all the other projects around me progress, this job will not do itself. Lottery win anyone?? |
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Thanks again to Jabbo, my wheels were returned tonight sans tyres. Hope I can payback some time buddy. Next up get ready for powder coating, as soon as I have a price to strip the tyres of my smoothies and fit to the Rallyes once powder coated.  |
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Jeez , thats a ' healthy' sixe compressor grizz , love it !
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Jeez , thats a ' healthy' sixe compressor grizz , love it ! Thanks. Like my large £80.00 collected pillar drill, this one was £100.00 plus collection. It is seriously big and heavy, which is why I added wheels. I love older tools as they mostly just work. Right..... Calling clever people and any others with opinions. I have been quoted £40.00 per wheel to powdercoat, and then remove tyres from my chrome smoothies and fit, balance to the powder coated wheels. This sounds like a decent price to me, but I have no real idea. I do have a. Blasting cabinet, but it's too small for the wheels, so I will be building a plywood box with a simple door, some glass in the door and a vacuum cleaner along with holes for my hands and the spray nozzle hose. I plan on using glass media as I purchased a load at reasonable price last year. I spent quite a lot of time trying to find answers on Google today, but lot a lot of info came up on glass media. So my question is, what safety steps should I take out back behind my garage? I plan to use safety glasses, a plastic visor and a bush hat, also an overall over my clothes, and some kind of simple mask. Any advice appreciated. Thanks again. |
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£40 per wheel is about right for basic powdercoat colour, but if they are sorting your tyres etc too then sounds pretty good.
Other than that, all I have to add is 'gauntlets'.
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£40 per wheel is about right for basic powdercoat colour, but if they are sorting your tyres etc too then sounds pretty good. Other than that, all I have to add is 'gauntlets'. Morning Justin, thanks for the reply. The price excludes blasting the wheels, so I am kinda screwed it seems. I was just saying to Nicola about the replies I got on various forums about this question, as many people have differing opinions, that is it such a pity some of the jobs we want to do are kind of "out of reach" to us mere mortals. So it looks like a bit more homework to find best price for blasting and coating, followed by paying the pros to get on with it. |
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Oh, excludes blasting? I've found £40 to be the average for stripping, minor filling, and powdercoating basic colours. A friend of mine, until recently, worked for Aerocoat powdercoaters. Shop around? Then, any garage/tyre place will do your rubbbers
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