bugnut
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Rian, as a guy who rust repaired beetles that is a lotta work, you are admired!
Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT Mixed Grill - From London , England - GRIZZMAKES world
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Workspaces between 705 and 1200 squarefeet.
gman007
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Rian,
Sir, I want to submit to you that, in fact, this is a case of being more discriminating and careful about what situations you might be exposing yourself to. And this is one of the very few positive aspects of getting older and gaining hard-won wisdom.
So, while the process of making the right selection might be longer, it doesn’t mean it is impossible. Don’t give up!
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gman007
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It is starting to make C10 rust repairs look like Mother Teresa in comparison!
But Rian is up to the challenge (even though I would be lying if I didn’t tell you that secretly, like many others here, I am still hoping you will finish the C10 first
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Home under the weather today so have made time to watch the video, don’t often make the time during work week.
its quite the job doing those strut towers, much patience required
gman007
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Rian
I also got around to watching the video. Great job grinding and cleaning.
You might also consider wearing a leather apron to save your body looking like a porcupine after each heavy duty wire wheel grinding session! It doesn’t need to be fancy or expensive but should help lessen the pain.
https://www.harborfreight.com/45-in...MIyIzHjsHBlQMV14jCCB0R9jq0EAQYASACEgJzJfD_BwE
I also got around to watching the video. Great job grinding and cleaning.
You might also consider wearing a leather apron to save your body looking like a porcupine after each heavy duty wire wheel grinding session! It doesn’t need to be fancy or expensive but should help lessen the pain.
https://www.harborfreight.com/45-in...MIyIzHjsHBlQMV14jCCB0R9jq0EAQYASACEgJzJfD_BwE
Coolabah
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Nice. Very few know this, but those safety boots are fire rated , standard issue for a lot of fire departments in Aus
Oh George is so pretty
George is cute
We love George.
******** bites me often when I provoke him.
Last night I was trying to get a photo of him for Tania, but he ignored me…… So I touched him, then he returned the touch….. but with his teeth.
The heatwave certainly has him beat.
I actually stopped welding and fabricating by 3.00pm yesterday.
I had done three pieces, sections that didn’t exist before. Including one that I had to create out of thin air.
Thankfully @MrBig Craig was on hand remotely to search as well and sent some exploded views that were not conclusive, but helped at least with giving me direction.
I also found a vehicle for sale on Marketplace in Deepest darkest Europe, Bulgaria or something like that.
So I saved those pics as well and went about bashing and shaping metal again.
I will post all of that in a few days, weeks or months.
Also of course, this time last year I was sick, but I was out in America visiting Dennis and various other friends
Made some random stuff for them
Back here, Pedro and George continue to have fragile truce but Pedro holds the “trump” card
Treats
George is cute
We love George.
******** bites me often when I provoke him.
Last night I was trying to get a photo of him for Tania, but he ignored me…… So I touched him, then he returned the touch….. but with his teeth.
The heatwave certainly has him beat.
I actually stopped welding and fabricating by 3.00pm yesterday.
I had done three pieces, sections that didn’t exist before. Including one that I had to create out of thin air.
Thankfully @MrBig Craig was on hand remotely to search as well and sent some exploded views that were not conclusive, but helped at least with giving me direction.
I also found a vehicle for sale on Marketplace in Deepest darkest Europe, Bulgaria or something like that.
So I saved those pics as well and went about bashing and shaping metal again.
I will post all of that in a few days, weeks or months.
Also of course, this time last year I was sick, but I was out in America visiting Dennis and various other friends
Made some random stuff for them
Back here, Pedro and George continue to have fragile truce but Pedro holds the “trump” card
Treats
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Saw this little 1.4 petrol Ford ****** Day camper.
Interesting graphics.
Mate John was picked up out in traffic on his Full Power Yamaha V-Max trike
I also put a couple of coats of clear lacquer on the front and back of the spanner-fish that I had made for Tania this afternoon
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Interesting graphics.
Mate John was picked up out in traffic on his Full Power Yamaha V-Max trike
I also put a couple of coats of clear lacquer on the front and back of the spanner-fish that I had made for Tania this afternoon
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Carrying on with the rear wheel tub repairs was a small dilemma.
I was waiting for a few weeks for a guy who races one of these to cut out and sell me some rear wheel tubs from a German sourced Pickup. Three weeks later, nothing had happened and he was not even looking at my messages.
So I obviously started to rebuild the tubs in the way I believed was how I should.
Now every one of you will have an opinion on how to get it done, but I noticed that NOBODY actually came around to help, started a Go-Fund-Me page to get me complete reproduction pieces to “just weld in” delivered via courier. I also did not receive and large deposit if cash for an invisible repair job and subsequent purchase. So here are a bunch of progress pictures.
Fugly as can be, but structurally as good as and better than factory made.
If you take some time to zoooom in as many of you do, you will see three skins, where previous repairs have been done. So I would cut out well beyond those repairs to get to solid metal.
My repairs were also done in the middle of the heatwaves, sitting inside that unventilated box in 32’C or 90’F plus weather welding, grinding, fabrication and repeatedly setting the van on fire.
Done in the way I did, in order to maintain all the suspension geometry and positioning without the additional equipment and cages needed, if I were to have just cut everything out in one session.
So pictures……
Hope you understand the process and progress.
Video PART 2.
I need to edit and create a few more videos to capture the rest of this painful process.
Hopefully I am not wasting my time.
.
I was waiting for a few weeks for a guy who races one of these to cut out and sell me some rear wheel tubs from a German sourced Pickup. Three weeks later, nothing had happened and he was not even looking at my messages.
So I obviously started to rebuild the tubs in the way I believed was how I should.
Now every one of you will have an opinion on how to get it done, but I noticed that NOBODY actually came around to help, started a Go-Fund-Me page to get me complete reproduction pieces to “just weld in” delivered via courier. I also did not receive and large deposit if cash for an invisible repair job and subsequent purchase. So here are a bunch of progress pictures.
Fugly as can be, but structurally as good as and better than factory made.
If you take some time to zoooom in as many of you do, you will see three skins, where previous repairs have been done. So I would cut out well beyond those repairs to get to solid metal.
My repairs were also done in the middle of the heatwaves, sitting inside that unventilated box in 32’C or 90’F plus weather welding, grinding, fabrication and repeatedly setting the van on fire.
Done in the way I did, in order to maintain all the suspension geometry and positioning without the additional equipment and cages needed, if I were to have just cut everything out in one session.
So pictures……
Hope you understand the process and progress.
Video PART 2.
I need to edit and create a few more videos to capture the rest of this painful process.
Hopefully I am not wasting my time.
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bugnut
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More work then I want! Holy cow....
gman007
Well-known member
Rian
First and foremost, great job with the wheel tub. San access to shaping tools such as English wheels, shrinker stretchers, and planishing hammers, etc, what you have done , IMHO is as good as anyone can do and as creative solution as ine can come up with.
Bravo!
Ps
Plz get any ideas of acquiring yet another Skoda which most likely has ghosts in the closet, out of your head! One rusty and crusty Skoda is one too many Skodas in anyone’s life !
First and foremost, great job with the wheel tub. San access to shaping tools such as English wheels, shrinker stretchers, and planishing hammers, etc, what you have done , IMHO is as good as anyone can do and as creative solution as ine can come up with.
Bravo!
Ps
Plz get any ideas of acquiring yet another Skoda which most likely has ghosts in the closet, out of your head
! One rusty and crusty Skoda is one too many Skodas in anyone’s life !
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Rian
First and foremost, great job with the wheel tub. San access to shaping tools such English wheels, shrinker stretchers, and planishing hammers, etc, what you have done , IMHO is as good as anyone can do and as creative solution as ine can come up with.
Bravo!
Ps
Plz get any ideas of acquiring yet another Skoda which most likely has ghosts in the closet, out of your head
Absolutely.
But I just saw another reserve bucket list item advertised.
It is a Frod
gman007
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I am starting to suspect that your bucket’s bottom is attached to the Sagittarius A* which is the supermassive black hole at the center of Milky Way galaxy. And as such there are not enough cars in the universe to satisfy its appetiteAbsolutely.
But I just saw another reserve bucket list item advertised.
It is a Frod
!I have attached an actual photo of your bucket list as exhibit A!
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I am starting to suspect that your bucket’s bottom is attached to the Sagittarius A* which is supermassive black hole at the center of Milky Way galaxy. And as such there are not enough cars in the universe to satisfy its appetite
I have attached an actual photo of your bucket list as exhibit A!
This…….
www.facebook.com
gilr
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You've answered your question before, it's because he is a cat!
PugetDude
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Fixed that for you.
gilr
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32”C or 90’F in the shade……
Heatwaves are no fun, stuck in an unventilated box.
And I don’t know how, but I kept at this repair.
Drivers side which I thought was the worst, started to come together.
Some hidden, double skins fabricated and welded into the inside of the bedside, actually between the outer skin and the non existent wheel tub.
And then a weird flat section with a small lip onto which I would rest and attach the final shaped piece.
Weirdly, I had run into a situation where I just couldn’t get the metal to shrink as I needed it to (I don’t have a shrinker/stretcher) so with the heat eating at my resilience, I decided a relief cut, some in situ hammering and a bit of weld filling would just have to do.
Eventually it was all welded together, followed by my typical non wasteful use of some old seam sealer. A visually unappealing mistake.
But one side was seam sealed both inside and out.
.
Heatwaves are no fun, stuck in an unventilated box.
And I don’t know how, but I kept at this repair.
Drivers side which I thought was the worst, started to come together.
Some hidden, double skins fabricated and welded into the inside of the bedside, actually between the outer skin and the non existent wheel tub.
And then a weird flat section with a small lip onto which I would rest and attach the final shaped piece.
Weirdly, I had run into a situation where I just couldn’t get the metal to shrink as I needed it to (I don’t have a shrinker/stretcher) so with the heat eating at my resilience, I decided a relief cut, some in situ hammering and a bit of weld filling would just have to do.
Eventually it was all welded together, followed by my typical non wasteful use of some old seam sealer. A visually unappealing mistake.
But one side was seam sealed both inside and out.
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