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Mar 19, 2014 19:16:25 GMT
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Reply sent mate, i'll let you know when i hear something. Bryan Thanks mate. Went down to the garage tonight, but in the end gave up as phone and texts from USA, Canada and South Africa kept interfering. So all I got to do was just set up the dial to establish position, as well as hanging a vacuum cleaner hose and my one nozzle from the side of the cabinet. Made me smile...... Really want to get on with stuff, but I guess life does get in the way sometimes.
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recarouk
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Mar 19, 2014 20:29:39 GMT
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watching with great interest Buddy, impressed as always
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joe90
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Mar 20, 2014 14:05:26 GMT
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Mar 20, 2014 14:51:12 GMT
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Picked this up for you today mate, the 2 large plain globes had gone a the 2 small ones were a bit too small, this one measures 10" across, let me know if it's any good for you. Bryan No swearing on this family forum mate...... But you are the dogs Christmas decorations. I will have to use that one. Just make up a vertical mount for it and mount it facing forward. Now we/I just need to get it down to Kent or South London area. Thanks for making the effort and taking the time. PM inbound as well.
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Mar 20, 2014 17:02:34 GMT
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I've got to admit, I had some slight doubts when I first started reading this, but I really shouldn't have done...you're making a good job of this and it looks like it's coming together nicely. That globe from Joe90 is perfectn (nice work Joe)...and I may know exactly what to put on it too! I'll keep watching with interest.
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Mar 20, 2014 17:11:04 GMT
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I've got to admit, I had some slight doubts when I first started reading this, but I really shouldn't have done...you're making a good job of this and it looks like it's coming together nicely. That globe from Joe90 is perfectn (nice work Joe)...and I may know exactly what to put on it too! I'll keep watching with interest. Go on MM...... Pour out the chicken soup or spill the beanzzz What would you think of adding to it? Nothing decided on the final brand and colour choices. I still love Sinclair but with this globe the game is open again. I also love that metal star and still would love to create a non existent brand featuring a "Russian" bear holding the star or something. Maybe with the letters -G-R-I-Z-Z- spaced on the tips inside a ring. Anyway, knowing your creative flair, what suggestions do you have??
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Mar 20, 2014 17:11:18 GMT
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I've got to admit, I had some slight doubts when I first started reading this, but I really shouldn't have done...you're making a good job of this and it looks like it's coming together nicely. That globe from Joe90 is perfectn (nice work Joe)...and I may know exactly what to put on it too! I'll keep watching with interest. Go on MM...... Pour out the chicken soup or spill the beanzzz What would you think of adding to it? Nothing decided on the final brand and colour choices. I still love Sinclair but with this globe the game is open again. I also love that metal star and still would love to create a non existent brand featuring a "Russian" bear holding the star or something. Maybe with the letters -G-R-I-Z-Z- spaced on the tips inside a ring. Anyway, knowing your creative flair, what suggestions do you have??
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Mar 20, 2014 17:15:25 GMT
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PS. Stopped at a scrap metal dealer today to look for some 10mm ally plate to cut out and make a receiver for the nozzle and also something to use toward making up the side handle/switch crank. No ally plate but found an old Victorian bath/shower tap unit and stripped the porcelain bead off the selector with it's rounded brass nut, as well as the brass shower rest. Pic to follow when I come indoors later.
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Mar 20, 2014 23:06:59 GMT
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I've got to admit, I had some slight doubts when I first started reading this, but I really shouldn't have done...you're making a good job of this and it looks like it's coming together nicely. That globe from Joe90 is perfectn (nice work Joe)...and I may know exactly what to put on it too! I'll keep watching with interest. Go on MM...... Pour out the chicken soup or spill the beanzzz What would you think of adding to it? Well, the new globe will need a logo, right? You like the metal star? You chose the brand of 'Star' for the name....so I just put some of the elements together into something that would suit an old American pump:
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Morning Bruce. Thank you for making up these designs. I suspect they will be running about in my head for the next few weeks/days to get closer to an idea for which colour combo and graphics to go for on the pump, based on these designs. I have always loved the Sinclair Oil Corporation logo's and colours, so they are on my short list. I also love the "New Brand" colours in the blue and red, with the Blue circle surrounding the logo. I think that it would look great with a Blue dominant pump housing, and then some white and red details, and some lines, graphics running diagonally from bottom left, across to about 40% of the height, to cut below the 3 dimensional metal star that will probably end up on the front of the pump, spaced below the dial face. Alternately, a dominant Green, like Sinclair but with different width stripes running horizontally below the star. I will have to see how it pans out, as the pump evolves. Fresh, Crisp "New Brand" is my current favourite. Sinclair colours, my number two right now. Number three choice currently And not the worst, but currently least favourite as I cannot yet add it into a mental picture of the completed pump. Of course, colours like the GULF Oil are instantly recognizable as well, and I love them, but it is a toss up between the classic, retro feel for a 1940-50's replica pump in Sinclair type colours or a crisp new design for a brand that does not exist. I guess time and some of you guys will tell. The other bit of action from the last few days includes a PM from Bryan up north that he had seen an offer for some 1930's lamp glass. He replied and got this glass, decent sized, and also adding in a different dimension if I end up using it, a vertically mounted, forward facing Pump Globe. I would have vinyl stickers or transfers made up to add to the front of it. See his hand for size perspective. And lastly, I stopped in at a scrap metal merchants on the way to work, looking for something to still try create the right size of zero-ing or power handle to fit to the side, the way I remember them as a kid on pumps. Found an old Victorian Bath tap/Shower control and stripped some bits off it. I think the white porcelain "bead" and it's nut could just make the handle, once I create a crank, I am also trying to think of how I can use the shower head rest, and the other bit of brass that was the handle to a fire place companion set stand. This weekend is filled with stuff, but no time set aside for the pump build, so not sure when the next update will be. In the mean time I am looking forward to your opinions, and advice as to what colours and designs to go with.
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Grizz, can you dig out your old thread containing that grizzly/bear thing already? Have no time right now to search for it... Will have to go into my profile later to look at "Recent Threads Started" later when I get in from London, just hitting the road now.
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Mar 21, 2014 14:41:39 GMT
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Currently, EVERYTHING is an option mate.
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Mar 21, 2014 20:41:47 GMT
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Just a little tip. If you know anyone who Paints porcelain and or glass. They can Paint and burn the Paint permanently on the glass, and it last aslong as the glass. Sounds like a good idea, but probably quite costly.
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Mar 21, 2014 21:18:37 GMT
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Weekend's here !! Thought I would post up this pic of one of the pumps that I saw on sale recently to demonstrate where some of my thinking comes from. Firstly, the little crank arm/lever on the side. This was used to zero the pump if I know correctly, and I seem to think it also turned the pump on for the next customer. That is why I am trying to put one together. Secondly, something not mentioned on here yet, is the small glass dome in the middle front, when I was a kid, the Mobil pumps in our town had those on the side, and they had a "screw" like a propeller turning and you could see the petrol in it when you were pumping petrol. I want to try get hold of a MkI Landrover or Mini Park/side light lens which looks similar to it, and fit that to the side of the pump or on the front. Lastly, the ally trim on this pump is a bit rough, but I like the idea of a bit of polished ally detail. On the way home today I stopped at out local pub, The Fenn Bell, and asked Terry the landlord, who breaks caravans that contractors leave behind in his caravan park (Previously bought a Zig Unit for the Grizz-Pod from him) before burning the rest, if he had any aluminium trim, which he sells as scrap metal. So he took me around the back of the pub for a rummage and we came up with this, unfortunately in bad shape, as it gets stripped for scrap not restoration. The little louvers will possibly go to the bottom of the cabinet when I find a vertical compressor. Hopefully the strips polished up will yield one length to use as embellishment on the front of the cabinet. I tried the red fire hose reel tonight as well, not sure about it vs the black vacuum cleaner pipe but it could work with red in a colour combo. I made the top plank onto which the globe will be fitted, fit better tonight, then started making the nozzle retainer plate. I looked for a thick piece of ally to machine into shape but found nothing...... so step up plywood. Also recessed it a bit, still need to make up the bottom hook/rest onto which the nozzle sits. Then gave it some coats of white paint as a base. Followed by two coats of silver paint, to create the illusion of having an ally plate there. That was it, up early to go fetch a 1969 Chevelle rear bumper for another project. Then off to Nicola's dads place with some garden tools and a chainsaw.
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Mar 23, 2014 22:33:26 GMT
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"If nobody wants it, I will take it to the tip in two weeks time"Well, of course I sent a PM, to say that if nobody wanted it, I would have it, rather than see it on the tip. So after two weeks I got the PM to say "Nobody mate, It's your's" Of course this meant being up at 05.30 to leave home by 06.15 for a very Mini-roadtrip...... 39 miles that should take 90 minutes each way. Arranged to pop over early on Saturday morning, woke at 04.00 and left as planned. Ultimately, I got very lucky in both directions, there and coming home as it only took an hour each way. When I got there, this was parked outside. Went indoors, and by 07.30 Dr David had made me a great cuppa coffee, and we sat chatting about just about everything......we will hopefully have a BBQ some time and also meet up at Wheels day. So of course, some of you will know what I went to fetch.... set under the good doctors feet. A rough-ish rear bumper from a 1969 Chevelle SS 396ci It is even larger than I had thought, but should be perfect for the project I have in mind. Answers on a post card please. Went to movies with Nicola tonight, and after movies at 20.30 got a text from Martin, he had organised some Argon/CO2 mix gas for us. £55.00 deposit once off on the bottle, and £36.00 per fill. No contracts. Perfect. This means I am a step closer to actually welding with the Argon shield I want to use on the truck. SOOOON I will be starting the strip down on the truck and cutting rust etc. But the plan is to do Wheels Day (where Top Gear is filed for our American brothers) first before I take the truck off the road.
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Mar 25, 2014 13:13:34 GMT
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Lets see if i can translate from my head to writings that humans can understan. The old Victorian Bath tap. If you cut it after the round middle and cut away the forks.This can be the bottom rest for the fuel pistol. the left over part you can weld on the other fork making it a round hole. And maybe insert the fuel pistol nozzle there if the hole is big enouge. If this dosent work put Your hand in the air yelling loud like a madman and run in a circles. Or have a beer and start thinking of other parts for the hole. Good thinking Batman. It is brass, so no welding. But using half without the forks as the bottom rest is a great idea. I may still figure out a way to secure the nozzle tip at the top using bits I have. Currently a bit busy with work and also some chest infection so not going out at night.
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ruffgeezer
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Mar 25, 2014 21:03:36 GMT
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We are having new pumps at work soon Grizz, would you like me to enquire as to the future of the old ones?
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Mar 25, 2014 21:20:41 GMT
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We are having new pumps at work soon Grizz, would you like me to enquire as to the future of the old ones? You are a bad man. Of course. Really interested in skins and counter faces, not pump mechanisms. What sort of age and where are they located? Price??
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ruffgeezer
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Mar 25, 2014 22:36:10 GMT
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Old, but not that old, I was thinking perhaps the handle holder socket might be of use?
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Mar 31, 2014 20:17:06 GMT
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Old, but not that old, I was thinking perhaps the handle holder socket might be of use? Would like to see what they look like though.
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