Reply With QuoteYes, Queenslanders will have to start wearing socks with thongs soon, but steel caps and long pants will be better while working on your projects, especially when welding.
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Hello All,
Here in sunny Queensland my neck of the woods has experienced a day time maximum of 25 degrees C. For the first time in months I have been able to spend close to the whole day in my shed. Prior to this visits to the shed were very restricted. The restriction being the 15 minutes it took to start being transformed into a big puddle of sweat on the floor. I can see why people get their sheds insulated!
Anyway, I have lived here for more than 30 years and my ability to cope with working in an uninsulated shed during the warmer months seems to have declined since turning the big 60 a couple of years ago. Funny how once a certain age on the clock ticks over restrictions or second thoughts seem to crop up. I can remember one of my grandmothers announcing at the age of 61 that she was hanging up the much beloved tennis racket and would no longer be playing in local competition and social games. Nanna said that since she turned 60 tennis took too much out of her and it actually hurt for a couple hours after the end of the game. Something that had never been experienced before. This was after probably more than 50 years of holding a racket. Because back then in a small country town tennis was one of the staple social events.
Now with nicer maximum temperatures around plans are afoot to return to Land Rover tinkering, rust cutting and welding. Today was spent cleaning up after finishing renovating the kitchen. All the bench spaces were still covered in carpentry tools and wood off cuts. With some planning and activities I should be towing the first project into the shed by tomorrow afternoon . Converting a steel frame off a previous owner's homemade tray on camper trailer into a trolley. I will modify the camper frame and have caster wheels mounted to it so I can place the Defender ute's steel tray on it and be able to move it around. This gets the ute tray off my little trailer that I have not been able to use for other jobs. The steel ute tray needs some cross wise rectangular hollow section cut off and replaced because it rusted out. Instead of having a three sided mudguard the ute's previous owner just used a flap of conveyor belt a the front of the wheel and another bit of conveyor belt at the back of each wheel. The conveyor belt was tech-screwed into the frame and decades of built up mud, bull-dust and other unsavoury things trapped moisture against the steel frame and it rusted out. A couple of more keeping in the good books with SWIMBO jobs that require welding will be done too. Cooler weather equals Happy Days in the shed!
Oh, of course to be able to unload the ute frame from the trailer I will have to clear all the stuff that has been placed in front and around the trailer. Find new homes for the 'stuff'. Then take the trailer to the where the camper frame is. Move some of the stuff that has built up around it over the years... The morning will be taken up playing Rubik's cube so I can gain access to everything.
Kind regards
Lionel
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SupporterYes, Queenslanders will have to start wearing socks with thongs soon, but steel caps and long pants will be better while working on your projects, especially when welding.
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.Originally Posted by RANDLOVER
Hello Randlover,
Yes, safety footwear and a welding jacket has to be included in the mix during activities now. I will have to vacuum out the work boots and evict what ever has been living in them over the past summer months. Brush away all the cobwebs. Yep - I am a home wrecker.
Kind regards
Lionel
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Hello All,
Make a steel rack that can fit in the gap between two pallet rack shelves that will feature multiple tiers. This will allow the temporarily shifted timber off cuts - that were blocking access to the workbench and covering the top of it - to find a new home that is out of the way where the timber is easy to access.
Then after that lots and lots and lots of cutting out rust and fabricating rust repair panels and welding them to the some vehicles. Swap the odd gearbox and fit a clutch to get a petrol Series III mobile again. Get a 2.25 litre diesel donor motor going and swap over a worn out motor and a new clutch in another Series III. Strip down an old Series II and a IIA that were bought as parts vehicles. Then regain space and keep someone I cohabit with happy that... please excuse the following bad language - the words are not my own - "the rusty pieces of crap that are a total eyesore and are just cluttering up the yard". Something about spoiling the view ...
Then my hearing fails ... selectively of course ... anyway
How rude!!!
Yippee, with the lowering of maximum temperatures I can get back into working on the long put off personal projects "To-do" list!
Kind regards
Lionel
TopicToaster
An addition to the list:
Use some of the steel from the old camper frame to make a shelf to fit across the bottom of a little movable welding table that I bought second hand. Not having a low shelf to be able to store stuff on is not a good utilisation of an otherwise very handy item.
That should keep me out of trouble for a little while.
The not so good news is that before it got too hot in the shed and kitchen renovations totally dominated my life - I had two pieces of flat plate cut down to fit the front face of the Defender's driver seat base frame. The two pieces of metal have since disappeared. They were all ready to weld to the frame to strengthen up the sheet metal that forms the seat base that the cushion pad fits to. It being an old farm vehicle meant that Snowy had a very hard life and the welds that hold the sheet metal to the frame had all broken off.
Oh well at least I now have full access to the welding table and the seat frame. Another job can be crossed off the list some time this weekend. Then I will tackle the mobile frame for the Defender's ute tray and start working on it. I have yet to earn my novice welder button and it has been a long time between sessions of trial and error. Well more error and lots of tribulations about reaching the level of welding attainment that I would like to achieve. Practice ... practice and then lots and lots more practice. Happy Days!
Kind regards
Lionel
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SupporterIt's freezing here, got down to 14 degrees on Thursday night, 18 now.
OldBushie
SubscriberBloody Hell, mate! That's beanie and Uggs weather! I had to get the fire drum going yesterday arvo, just to have a couple of Coopers.It's freezing here, got down to 14 degrees on Thursday night, 18 now.
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Its snowing in some places
Winter is great for some. Personally the SUB 20 highs all this week in Mexico is ok. Adding a few extra chilies to my cooking
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That can be done at 40⁰ +.Its snowing in some places
Winter is great for some. Personally the SUB 20 highs all this week in Mexico is ok. Adding a few extra chilies to my cooking
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
OldBushie
SubscriberI'm not a cold weather person, but the apricity during a Queensland winter, is a joy to experience.Its snowing in some places
Winter is great for some. Personally the SUB 20 highs all this week in Mexico is ok. Adding a few extra chilies to my cooking
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