glenanderson
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I strive for a similar level of organizing, labeling and storing a project's parts. Am not saying that to sound holier-than-anyone, but for me the "project management" element of this, my hobby, is as rewarding as the actual spannering. I also try to clean and recondition items on the way off the car to storage, so when I hit the final stretch I'm not cursing myself for putting off the dirty work. Either you want to do things this way, or you don't: my twenty something son is mechanical and has completed some really cool stuff but, OMG, how he gets there drives me nuts...messy, disorganized. Source of friction! John I imagine we’re best not sharing workspace... 🤣 I work in a sea of spanners. I just remember where everything is. If I am unsure, I just close my eyes and visualise where I last had whatever it is I’m looking for. If I dismantle something, it all goes in a bucket or crate. Then it gets put away until I’m ready for it. When it’s time to put it back together I just rumble through the bucket for the bits. I can just see it go back together in reverse of how I took it to apart. Again, I just shut my eyes and I can replay dismantling it in my mind if I need to. I have an eye for fasteners and recognise most common thread forms and spanner sizes. I recently unearthed a box containing a BSA Bantam engine I dismantled over 30 years ago. I had a sort through and can still clearly remember how to reassemble it. Job for next winter. Maybe. Been saying that for years. |
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Sometimes I remember to wear pants.
I start off with good intentions, but then I run out of bags, jars and storage space..
Am about to move houses though so looking forward to an unshared garage with lots of extra space!
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I strive for a similar level of organizing, labeling and storing a project's parts. Am not saying that to sound holier-than-anyone, but for me the "project management" element of this, my hobby, is as rewarding as the actual spannering. I also try to clean and recondition items on the way off the car to storage, so when I hit the final stretch I'm not cursing myself for putting off the dirty work. Either you want to do things this way, or you don't: my twenty something son is mechanical and has completed some really cool stuff but, OMG, how he gets there drives me nuts...messy, disorganized. Source of friction! John I imagine we’re best not sharing workspace... 🤣 I work in a sea of spanners. I just remember where everything is. If I am unsure, I just close my eyes and visualise where I last had whatever it is I’m looking for. If I dismantle something, it all goes in a bucket or crate. Then it gets put away until I’m ready for it. When it’s time to put it back together I just rumble through the bucket for the bits. I can just see it go back together in reverse of how I took it to apart. Again, I just shut my eyes and I can replay dismantling it in my mind if I need to. I have an eye for fasteners and recognise most common thread forms and spanner sizes. I recently unearthed a box containing a BSA Bantam engine I dismantled over 30 years ago. I had a sort through and can still clearly remember how to reassemble it. Job for next winter. Maybe. Been saying that for years. Having met and spent time with Glen a few times, I can vouch that he is as described. But you are a rare exception my friend. |
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jamesd1972
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The rest of us have to take photos as we go along, one area that modern technology has really helped.
An old laptop to view pictures is becoming a real must have as the phone screen appears to be getting smaller and slightly blurred as I get older !
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glenanderson
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But you are a rare exception my friend. If you picked up a part from a random tub in my garage, and put it on the table that night down the pub, I could tell you what it was for and where you’d picked it up from. It took me a very long time to realise that my talents were unusual. Trust me though, when I say that there’s plenty of stuff that I can’t do that pretty much everyone else can. 🙂 |
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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The rest of us have to take photos as we go along, one area that modern technology has really helped. An old laptop to view pictures is becoming a real must have as the phone screen appears to be getting smaller and slightly blurred as I get older ! James Pics / Images is the way to go - there is no way that I can hold 3 - 4 projects worth of where everything is / how it came apart in my memory along with everything else in life - who I have spoken to about what - forward workloads - whom I have promised to help out by loaning a part for pattern - who I have said I would call in on and advise next time I'm in that part of the country etc - I also have some formatted order for my tools in the fact there is a home for everything where I know I can find it (98% of the time  ) - maybe part of it is down to my OCD nature - then again maybe not - some it is certainly down to being organised and most certainly part of it is down to business - after all the last thing you want to see on the invoice for your vehicle restoration is 15 hours under the heading of searching / locating / remembering where I put the parts, 10 hours for looking / searching for tools & equipment along with 20 hours for recalling how it went together - OK so you not in business so it doesn't matter where you stick the parts / tools or that you spend time looking for stuff that have you misplaced - but if that's a few hours every weekend that you are in your workshop - times that by 4 and that's a full day that you've lost that could have been spent advancing the work on your project  |
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glenanderson
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I have certainly spent/wasted considerable time over the years looking for stuff that others have helpfully “tidied” for me. 🤣🤣
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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I have certainly spent/wasted considerable time over the years looking for stuff that others have helpfully “tidied” for me. 🤣🤣 Tell me about it. Filipinas seem to work on the basis of, "Oh he doesn't want that there where he can find it, I'd best put is somewhere totally obscure and then forget myself." "Honey, where's my cordless drill?" "What's that?" "Thing that goes zzzzzzzzz and makes holes." "Don't know." An hour, a day, a week may go by before I get, "I remember where I see zzzzzzz thing, look." Opening a kitchen cupboard full of tins. "That silly place. Why you put it there?" Grit teeth. "Thank you." All, and I mean all my tools are now locked in the back of the Range Rover. Oh, except the vice, that's too heavy to get into the fridge.  |
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Last Edit: Feb 5, 2020 12:04:44 GMT by georgeb
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 Cracked on with the polishing - both front door & wing are now both completed with first stage polishing  Which means some fitting up can be progressed  The clips & fastenings for the chrome trim were beyond reuse however I keep a new stock of them  The headlights / side & indicator lamp are wired in but I need new headlamp bulbs for the 700 series type headlights - these are H4 British pre focus type but are now available in halogen (no doubt available in LED too) - the idea that vulgalour made of swapping the amber indicator lenses for clear then using amber bulbs works very well too and is far more in fitting with a car of this period too  I use this transparent waxcoat behind all clips / fittings / trims / lamps  Rear bumper is largely back together and refitted to the car - still requires a few tweaks & cleaning up a little  I asked Sid this morning if wanted to come view progress but he advised that he more than happy to look at the pics on a evening when I upload them to the laptop - and that it was too cold to come out the workshop anyway - hence he retreated to his favourite chair for a all day snooze  More tomorrow |
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jyd
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That chrome against the black paint,
looks amazing!
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bstardchild
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The headlights / side & indicator lamp are wired in but I need new headlamp bulbs for the 700 series type headlights - these are H4 British pre focus type but are now available in halogen (no doubt available in LED too) - the idea that vulgalour made of swapping the amber indicator lenses for clear then using amber bulbs works very well too and is far more in fitting with a car of this period too I've never been a fan of the fried egg look of amber behind clear lenses - for some reason it irritates my OCD what you can buy is silvered bulbs that flash orange but remove the fried egg look when not in use I reckon that would work really well in those indicators |
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Stunning looking car like always Chris and always a very interesting read. I liked your tutorial on the paint polishing. I do all kinds of jobs on my cars but did not like spray painting jobs because i was not happy with the result untill a friend showed me how to lightly sand the painted areas and then polish it. In this way you can get very nice results without a proper spray booth and i also use the 3M product you showed.
keep up the good work and thanks for taking the time to show us
Peter
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Aaaahhh Sid ❤️
nice job on the car so far.
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The rest of us have to take photos as we go along, one area that modern technology has really helped. An old laptop to view pictures is becoming a real must have as the phone screen appears to be getting smaller and slightly blurred as I get older ! James Pics / Images is the way to go - there is no way that I can hold 3 - 4 projects worth of where everything is / how it came apart in my memory along with everything else in life - who I have spoken to about what - forward workloads - whom I have promised to help out by loaning a part for pattern - who I have said I would call in on and advise next time I'm in that part of the country etc - I also have some formatted order for my tools in the fact there is a home for everything where I know I can find it (98% of the time ) - maybe part of it is down to my OCD nature - then again maybe not - some it is certainly down to being organised and most certainly part of it is down to business - after all the last thing you want to see on the invoice for your vehicle restoration is 15 hours under the heading of searching / locating / remembering where I put the parts, 10 hours for looking / searching for tools & equipment along with 20 hours for recalling how it went together - OK so you not in business so it doesn't matter where you stick the parts / tools or that you spend time looking for stuff that have you misplaced - but if that's a few hours every weekend that you are in your workshop - times that by 4 and that's a full day that you've lost that could have been spent advancing the work on your project Totally agree. It always boggles my mind where, in my trade, you have a computer controlled machine that can machine a part in say 10 minutes. Makes it totally redundant when you spend half a day looking for the tools to go in it, and the other half of the day looking for your vernier gauge to measure it, because some twit has walked off with it. Gets my goat. Not for much longer....😉 |
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samta22
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I've never been a fan of the fried egg look of amber behind clear lenses - for some reason it irritates my OCD what you can buy is silvered bulbs that flash orange but remove the fried egg look when not in use I reckon that would work really well in those indicators Beat me to it - used to be a common change on all my old BMW's with the clear indicator lenses. I guess the issue on a car of this vintage might be that it leaves the front end looking a little washed out. Each to their own though and all that. |
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vanpeebles
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Sid! |
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But you are a rare exception my friend. If you picked up a part from a random tub in my garage, and put it on the table that night down the pub, I could tell you what it was for and where you’d picked it up from. now imagine that talent for fastener photographic memory, but for a car largely nobody cares about, then you have me. double niche. |
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eurogranada
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This is really starting to look great! The contrast between the polished black and the chrome is just wow...
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I read an anecdote about a guy who was apprecticing with a highly respected ex-Scuderia Ferrari mechanic (from the days of carbs and proper machines). The apprentice was given an engine or gearbox to tear down and was methodically labeling and sorting the pieces being removed, but Il Maestro came over and (likely, with great drama!) threw everything onto the bench or shop floor and said something like, "a REAL mechanic understands enough to not need this pansy organizing". I'm not that bright! John
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bstardchild
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I read an anecdote about a guy who was apprecticing with a highly respected ex-Scuderia Ferrari mechanic (from the days of carbs and proper machines). The apprentice was given an engine or gearbox to tear down and was methodically labeling and sorting the pieces being removed, but Il Maestro came over and (likely, with great drama!) threw everything onto the bench or shop floor and said something like, "a REAL mechanic understands enough to not need this pansy organizing". I'm not that bright! John Everybody can do that - you just have to accept that if you do that it will take longer to put it back together unless you know exactly where each nut and bolt goes If it is a C30SE C30SEJ or a C36GET I'm in that category as you can pretty much show me something and I'll tell you were it goes - even down to the 3 different lengths of bolts holding the water pump on Anything else I need to photograph, label curse word and put it in boxes |
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) - maybe part of it is down to my OCD nature - then again maybe not - some it is certainly down to being organised and most certainly part of it is down to business - after all the last thing you want to see on the invoice for your vehicle restoration is 15 hours under the heading of searching / locating / remembering where I put the parts, 10 hours for looking / searching for tools & equipment along with 20 hours for recalling how it went together - OK so you not in business so it doesn't matter where you stick the parts / tools or that you spend time looking for stuff that have you misplaced - but if that's a few hours every weekend that you are in your workshop - times that by 4 and that's a full day that you've lost that could have been spent advancing the work on your project 
