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Apr 18, 2016 17:01:25 GMT
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I've tried that, though I had the impression it would just increase the wrinkling dieselweasling - I guess whilst it's easyer to form, it's also easyer to push together, if that makes sense. My verdict is: either I'm doing something wrong, I'm using the wrong material or the radius is just too tight. Probably a combination of two In other news: Taadaa! Cheers, Jan
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Apr 17, 2016 15:14:14 GMT
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Apr 17, 2016 11:58:12 GMT
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So, I thought I had to have another go at this pipe bending thing - and so I ground me a radiused tool bit and tried. Now this is only the second tool bit I made, it's not quite on par with a professional tool bit. But it got the job done... I still don't know how I got the one bend almost good and all others failed... Maybe I should read up a bit on this topic. Which I have not done, I just started from scratch. Didn't even look at other benders - maybe I should. Or maybe a radius with the diameter of the pipe is just too tight and there's a rule like " radius = 2 x ø " - I don't know. This was allready last week, this week I forced myself to not do any work, since my left hand is kind of broken and hurts and needs rest. Overworked, overstressed - too much work at - er - work. And it'll stay very stressfull for many more weeks - better try to keep myself in good order, car stuff can wait. Has to wait. That's all. Cheers, Jan
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Apr 17, 2016 11:24:47 GMT
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Your friend appears to be a lot tougher than carbide tools All the best wishes to SA!
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Apr 15, 2016 13:58:43 GMT
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Well, there are still 47.000km to drive to reset the counter
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Apr 15, 2016 13:18:00 GMT
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Hi! On wednesday, we took the Taxi for a drive through the deepest Black Forrest. After I was finished with work. Our destination was something that needs rescuing and reviving to it's old glory. Which has spent far too much time being neglected and left alone. If you are interested in what that might be - watch this place! There will be a video out soon, hopefully followed by many more. I can't tell you what it is yet, but you'll soon see. It's not my personal project, but I'm sort of participating. Cheers, Jan
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Apr 14, 2016 19:50:05 GMT
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Apr 10, 2016 18:53:16 GMT
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Well, there was an MX-5 in the 24h LeMons race that was powered by a Snowmobile engine 3-cylinder two stroke, with a CVT transmission. Seems to go quite well! Just as bonkers realy...
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Hi! I saw this episode of Jay Leno's garage on Youtube. With that Charger with a 9 liter Mercury boat engine in it... Couple of days later, I stumble across this. And it is beautifull! Stark raving bonkers mad!! Someone had the idea of taking an Evinrude two-stroke V8 and stuff it into a Volvo Amazon. Here's more of it, the next best thing to a build thread I could find: www.facebook.com/Rudezon/And now listen to it! This made me wonder - we've had a lot of crazy aero-engined cars, tank enigined cars - but are there more BOAT engined cars!?
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Soo - another play-day. First up: some more pipe bending, I bought another pipe to bend, the last one was all bent. Though today... I don't know. You've all seen the proof. Today pipe decided to not play along. That's probably because not everything they sell as 1mm wall thickness is actually 1mm wall thickness. So instead I dragged out the welder. Quick look at the wire reservoir - oh dear... Quick look at the gas reservoir - oh dear... So I went back to the work bench and made some CAD. Cut out a bit of sheet metal, bent to shape - and threw them in the bin. Me no likey. I thought I could do this much simpler. So I took some 2mm flat bar and bent it to a certain angle. And welded it to the radiator mount. Support brackets for the AC condenser. Then I looked at them - and made them complicated again. Too flimsy. Only tacked, as I'm out of welding wire. Of course on a saturday evening. But oh well. I'll weld them up when the radiator comes out once more for painting the radiator mount. Back to the pipe bender... I measured up all the bends I had - and luckily the best bend was just long enough for a repair section. And so I finally welded up the oil cooler mount bracket hoop pipe support thing. Fit's quite well. Next I installed the oil cooler temporarily with the duct & bumper in place. I need to modify the oil cooler duct slightly to fit the low temperature radiator for the charge cooler, but apart from that - all fits quite nicely! And further, a little proof that the car is actually alive That's all for this week. Will it drive this year? Let's see... Cheers, Jan
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So I joined the crowd of GoPro whores...
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Here's a home-made version I quite like. Also something that should probably have one of those japanese stickers on it
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In case you wonmdered how many tyres you can fit in the back of a W124 estate; the awnser is eight Brought them in this morning and mounted them this evening after work... I my Steinbock Roll on, summer! Cheers, Jan
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Why not poke a retangular thingy through it, bolt on top and just slot it together with the collet? Since you want to donate organs anyway... And there's your reason for them being expensive. All the required organs for the machinists...
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I need much more of this!! Most excellent stuff!
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Yes! And with a bit more development of the big roller - maybe I could even get rid of the last bit of deaselweasling in there... But then I have to defend my name! And you know what? This will do just fine. After all it's only to repair the hoop holding the oil cooler. Which I cut up to make room for the intercooler I'm no longer going to use. 15x1mm tube, 20mm radius. Cheers, Jan
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Continuing from where I left yesterday - I turned down some more steel. 55mm - that's pretty huge for that tiny lathe I guess... Then I put two bolts in a steel plate. Drilled two random holes in a bit of steel. Let the drill find it's own center, zero fooks given. Then I finished increasing the volume of my piece of steel by breaking it apart in to smaler peices. weird how that works... Then I went looking for another bolt, some washers and a nut - and bolted the lot together and put it in the vice.
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