I trust this garden bed will receive the obligatory coat of olive drab :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinty
Heres a veggie suggestion for the new garden. It's all the talk around town.
Purple carrots the next superfood
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I trust this garden bed will receive the obligatory coat of olive drab :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinty
Heres a veggie suggestion for the new garden. It's all the talk around town.
Purple carrots the next superfood
Good advice Dennis. I too have had a bristle driven into my cheek and it wasn't much fun, although the wire that eventually found its way into my jocks made me leap out of the chair vertically :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinty
I hardly ever use the thing nowadays and instead opt for the molasses bath to get rust off Rovers,
Cheers Charlie
G'day All,
Well I had good intentions today, but the weather started out really lousey, heavy fog until around 1100hrs, making life miserable:(.
Off to the shed to inspect the front turn signal/parking lamps, they came off a wrecked S2 C/R, they were no real gems but were needed nonetheless. First problem encountered, bodgey screw rusted solid:mad:
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...nsignal001.jpg
I managed to squeeze the glass 'bee-hive' lens out without too much distortion to the chrome bezel, then I was able to hold the head of the screw in the vice and cut through the screw, being very carefull not to cut/mark the chrome bezel.
The lamp bodies themselves are not in bad condition, all the lamps worked when I tried them some months ago, anyway all parts were tagged n bagged, then I started looking seriously at the rubber lamp bodies, they are US, 40+ years baking in the Aussie summers has fried them, very brittle, so emails sent to a few suppliers of other lights etc in the UK, hopefully they can come up with a supplier, that would make it easy.
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...klights003.jpg
I could hear the good wife struggling with shifting all the compost from the chook yard behind the shed, so I shelved what I was doing and helper her for the next 3 hours, we shifted about 2 1/2 mts of compost, it still needs heaps more
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...egarden001.jpg
look at the Poodle Patrol running amok!!:o.
Later in the day, I dragged out the fuel tank from the dead S2 C/R and pressure washed the loose crud off it,
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...72fueltank.jpg
anyway that was my day, I will have to wait until I get responses re rubber lamp bodies before I take that job on, cheers Dennis:angel:
Hi Dennis,Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinty
You may have mentioned it earlier but I couldn't find it. What size screws do you use to hold the vent screens in place? Are they tapped or self-tapping?
Thanks
G'day All,
Mate, they are self tapping screws, from the RPS book, pan head, slot drive, gimlet point, type AB thread, No6 x 1/2" in length, hope thats of some help, cheers Dennis:angel:
Fantastic!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinty
Thanks
G'day All,
This morning after attending my regular appointment with the chiropractor, it was time to get down n dirty with a replacement tank that I bought earlier this year, 113-372 only had a fuel tank in the lhs.:(
I had pressure washed most of the loose crud off it a few weeks ago, but it was still crusted with crud.
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...fueltank-1.jpg
I set about removing the crud with one of my 4" angle grinders fitted with cup wire brush, after donning all the safety gear the fuel tank started to look a lot better, it did need a small repair job before painting
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ueltank001.jpg
note 'Max' trying to look disinterested!!:p, 2 of the supports on the leading edge had come away, so out with the electric welder and 2 small welds (hope they hold:o), as I was a bit concerned that if I put too much heat onto the tabs, it might have burnt a hole through the tank bottom!!, anyway I think it will be OK.
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ueltank004.jpg
the tank was now almost ready to etch prime :)
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ueltank006.jpg
after letting the etch prime dry off (it flash dries very quickly) I fiddled about with a few other items, headlights had been purchased, I went away from the old Lucas types and fitted H4's for better illumination at night
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...adlightsH4.jpg
I still need to connect the wires together:p.
Meantime it was time to estimate how much Gloss Black paint I would need to repaint the tank, I did a guesstamet LOL mixed with thinners and hardener, starting on the base first, it didn't take long to dry in the stiff breeze that blowing, and it wasn't long before the whole tank had been painted, it looked A1 glistening in the sunlight
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ueltank005.jpg
the little dog is 'Tookie' our oldest Pomeranian nearly 13y.o...
I then dragged out 113-372's only fuel tank and started to clean it up as well.
While doing this I forgot to turn off the compressor in the shed, as at times when it starts up it trips the circuit breaker on the house, anyway I was using the wire brush (cup on grinder type) and I was thinking to self OK switch this off as I had something else on my mind, when I became aware that the radio wasn't on:(, hmm I think, check and yes the shed has no power, so I put the grinder on the ground and walked around the front and turned the switch back on, I heard the compressor start up and 'Max' going off his head barking:mad:, to my horror when I got back to where I could see the shed, I saw 'Max, Sophie and Monty' all running madly, it was then that I saw what the ruckus was all about, the angle grinder was live and running around on the ground, with 3 dogs chasing it.
I ran to kill the power by pulling the lead apart and yelling at the dogs to 'GET' in my boldest voice, s*** was king for a few seconds, all I could see was a small fluffy dog/s getting wound up in a 5" cup wire brush spinning at ???? RPM, anyway the grinder seemed to miss them all. Max is a complete idiot he loves the chase, typical 'sheltie', now all I had to do was tell the good wife how I stuffed part of 'HER' lawn:(
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...thelawn001.jpg
it dug in and down in several places, but it must have spun itself out and started walking again, it was frightening watching it all in slow motion until I pulled the plug on it, and it stopped here where it had started to dig down again
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...thelawn003.jpg
Makita's are bloody good stuff, LOL, look at the dirt it has in the brush
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...thelawn004.jpg
anyway the original tank that was in 113-372 is US as it has numerous pin holes in it, they could be fixed, but I have another NOS tank that I will use instead, I might paint it tomorrow, if I survive the night, swmbo might have baited my tea:o anyway we will see, cheers Dennis:angel:
G'day All,
Feeling a little blown away today, after being out in the wind all day I called it a day at 1600hrs:(.
I did however manage to finish the main fuel tank for 113-372. It is a english std 45lt tank (civvie), it needed a modification before painting,
so I set up next to a very rusty tank which was incidentally NOS as well, but had been left out in the weather, it was with the odds n sods I got with 'Chloe' a long time ago, anyway back on track, the dimensions for the fuel dipstick were transferred to the tank, light punch mark then turn it upside down, so that when you drill into the tank the swarf falls to the ground, well thats the idea LOL;):p
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ueltank007.jpg
after the hole was made and the dipstick flange fitted etc, I tinned the area around the hole and the flange, warming up the soldering iron (plumbers type) with the oxy flame set soft, I managed to fit the flange to the tank
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ueltank008.jpg
this tank had been stored for years, and even though the openings in the tank had bungs in them, the threaded holes for the cheesehead screws 3BA had some crap in them, so I run them through with a 3BA tap to clean them out
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ueltank009.jpg
I then finished etch priming it and coated Gloss Black,
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/u...ueltank010.jpg
well that was my day, cheers Dennis:angel:
That's all looking fantastic!
My vent screens arrived today (http://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-2-2...ml#post1512054) but I haven't decided whether I am going to paint them yet.
Did you have any trouble with the paint blocking the mesh? Did you just use the sand blaster to clean them ready for painting?
Cheers,
John
G'day All,
Yesterday I finished off connecting wires off the main loom to chassis to the rear cross over, hopefully colour blind me got it right LOL:p.
The good wife is off to Hawaii in about 3 weeks time, so I will have a few more hours up my sleeve to play all day, but there is a down side, I'm having surgery done the day before she leaves, so fingers XXX'd that it doesn't leave me too debilitated:(.
To answer drifters question re painting vent screens, if you are spraying from a can you shouldn't have any problems with paint blocking the vents, unless your too close with the spray can, if your spraying with a gun, provided you have thinned the paint correctly, it shouldn't block the vents either, but again I stress I'm only a amateur at all of this, I've always lived by this, you've never built/made anything until you have stuffed a few of them up:o:D;), I was going to attempt something when I got home from work today, but I cannot remember what I was going to do:( anyway cheers Dennis:angel:
ps pray for a few days of nice calm warm weather so I can paint the the b****y Land Rover and fit all the items I have hanging about all over the place,,.:wasntme: