Thread: 112-723 Emmet

...to my house.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I suppose you also want it delivered?

I'll even shout you an SA beer or some wonderful SA wine when you arrive!!

maybe a BBQ with yabbies, salt bush mutton and with pie floaters too!

(then some farmers union ice coffee chasers! )


(shonky thanks for the offer of having Diana drop Emmet to your place so you could hook him up to Ambrose making it easier for me to collect both at once but...I'll pop in for Ambrose another time!! - thanks again --so kind of you!)

Originally Posted by digger

I'll even shout you an SA beer or some wonderful SA wine when you arrive!!
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No SA beer until I can have a Cooper and Daughter's, It may have been Cooper and Sons and now Coopers Brewery, but given the last generation was a female of the family, I'm boycotting them till the name is corrected!

I don't think you'd want Emmett. Today I've bee sanding back the paint and it seems that sometime while in the army the previous paint was removed with an angle grinder, the bodywork is a myriad of random semi-circular hills and hollows. It's pretty close to being 3 cubic metres of bog or a replacement tub. Both of the front outer guards have serious damage and would be better if replaced also.

Anyone have a couple of good cut guards with damage at the front corner? What about an 88" tub with damage at the very back?

ADDIT: A bit more work this afternoon, the reinforcing mesh has been removed from the brush guard, looks much better already. Have also started to remove the platform fitted to the rear of the body. Just needed to check with other GB piccys to see if there is an angle iron running the full width of the body. Would have been a disaster if I removed it when it was meant to be there.

re coopers, this is in last years agm notes
 MELANIE COOPER JOINING THE BOARD OF COOPERS WITH THE RETIREMENT OF BILL COOPER OAM. I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE HER ON THIS ACHIEVEMENT.
 KEEPING THE GENDER BALANCE IN CHECK WE ALSO WELCOMED RACHEL COOPER CASSERLY TO THE BREWERY IN THE ROLE OF BRAND MARKETING COORDINATOR.
RACHEL IS THE FIRST OF THE SIXTH GENERATION TO JOIN US. RACHEL IS ON MATERNITY LEAVE LOOKING AFTER THE 7TH GENERATION.

*** there are still 4 5th generation involved (all males!) who didnt call it coopers and sons, that was done in the 1800's! but just highlighting the above to show that the ladies are slowly moving in! (I doubt they'd want it changed either by the way!)

anyway back to Emmett:-

sad to hear that... dont dump those panels until the others are perfected!!


(MMM starts thinking, could steal gunbuggy 1 x panel at a time!! MMMM today the front off side guard panel, tomorrow the world!!! <<insert evil laugh here-thankyou>>> )


this also means that you can make a step by step -well photographed and all measurements etc included instruction manual (insert into "what makes a gunbuggy" thread? ) as you go?? (making a good thing from a bad etc!)

Let me know what you remove at the back Diana, as I intend to do that with mine when next we are in company (the gunbuggy and I that is)

Well the extension platform has been removed.

Firstly I cut a vertical through the flat bar that ran the full length from one side to the other. Next a "V"into the primary cuts. The whole platform was them placed under strain upwards into the V with a pair of ratchet straps. The welds on the top side of the angle irons to the chassis outriggers were cut through. But alas no movement!



Investigated the underside to find some reo-bar welded to the chassis. Cut at strategic locations and the whole platform popped up. Then was a simple task of cracking the remaining welds.



Unfortunately it started raining and the last thing you want to do is use electric power tools in the rain.







The remaining bars will have to wait till another day.



There have been a number of fittings that have met their demise at the hands of previous owners. Particularly ones that mounted the 106, the decision will now be whether they get replicated and re-fitted.

G'day All, I hope that doesn't come to being, but if I have to I will as I need my 110, maybe Diana would buy it for spares for 'Emmett'
then you wouldn't have to worry about replicating anything anyway as I nervously wait for news on the fate of DDM110's engine cheers Dennis

At the rear LHS of the tub footwell hidden on the inside of the back panel, there is a rectangular box, which is bolted through the panel.

You can see the two bolts on this image. Between the triangular bracket and the row of rivets.



Any ideas what it is for?