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Nice n warm here today, 30c going to be hotter tomorrow, it was perfect weather for grit blasting/etch priming as the etch flashed off very quickly.
I have a new canvas top coming from Victoria sometime next week, so I thought I had best extract the finger and make a move on restoring the hoodsticks n bows.
As usual all the nut/bolt assemblies were frozen, so out with the heat package
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warm them up spray with penetrating oil, allow to cool and just tighten it up first then snap it undone, and they all came apart
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10 minutes later, the nut was still very warm, but I dare not drop it as I might not ever find it LOL
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this is what happens to bodgy stuff
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a quick hit with the thin disc and it's rubbish.
All parts were put through the grit blast cabinet, to remove the accumulated crud of the past 60 years, and the old rubber held in by mush/head rivets was removed, all parts came up nice n clean, some have been etch primed
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a couple of parts will need to be brazed, that's a job for the morning
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vibrations have caused those cracks to develop, anyway cheers Dennis
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Funny how that tighten before loosening works isn't it. Wonder if someone worked that out or if, like most of us, had a habit of turning the nut the wrong way and suddenly realised it was making things easier :angel:
Incidentally, your picture of the burner shows as a link (you left the [/img] off). What gas is it?
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My internet connection was on the blink so gawd knows what that was LOL, the gas is the 'Map' gas that I was telling you about a few weeks ago, it is a disposable cylinder, Bunnings sell them, saves me lighting the Oxy/acetylene, cheers Dennis
ps now the image can be seen along with a much bigger gap between the text LOL
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I thought it was the unit you showed me the other day. What's MAP?
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Pushing on regardless of the heat, I had to run the tap n die over these and more this morning
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they were grit blasted, etch primed (and the underside of all washers painted flat black), now awaiting their top coat of Silver
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Some of the hoodsticks needed attention as they were bent out of shape
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and a little while later after some careful use of force
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one of them had a very rusted up bolt that had to be removed, so I cut it off with bolt cutters and ground it back, then hit it with a sharp cold chisel
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it then unscrewed LOL
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Some the hoodsticks have been etch primed, some needed a touch with the Mig, it will have to wait now until tomorrow after work, when I will clean them up and etch prime them.
I mixed up a small amount of Silver paint this afternoon, and sprayed a couple of items
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anyway that's been part of my day, hopefully my new canvas cover will arrive from Victoria through the week, cheers Dennis
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That man's got a lathe, lucky so and so :mad:
(anyone else take the opportunity to check out other people's sheds as well as looking at the Landy bits? :D)
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I also have a lot of other stuff as well, but not like some people in here that have 1st class workshops that make my stuff look ancient LOL, I bought that lathe almost 38 years ago and used it to build this
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it runs on compressed air so it will run on steam when I ever get around to it, it's a 5" gauge 'P' class 4-6-0 NSWGR with an 8 wheeled tender, cheers Dennis
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Impressive. Going from that to these pieces of glorified farm machinery must be a shock to the system.
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Another day, a little further down the road, cooler today only 25c and I managed to finish off the hoodsticks
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in between helping my wife prune/chop/cut out this big bush thing, it has filled the No5, that's a tip job tomorrow.
The hoop for the front
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the sundry bits
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and last but not least the clamps
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my new canvas arrived yesterday, it looks the ducks gutz, I must say here 'Thank You' to Scallops who took the time over some months (my fault because I misplaced them) to take images and dimensions, picture will be taken when all is assembled soon cheers Dennis
ps 2 of the 1/4BSF Csk screws n square nuts undid this morning after a little application of heat courtesy of the Map gas torch and some penetrene, they came apart like they had only been put on last night LOL,,.
