What a wasted day

[deezee]

I've wasted an entire afternoon on my car. I've been trying to make aluminium radiator mounts. I have spent all day designing, measuring and cutting these bloody mounts, checking clearances for the hoses and nose cone, only to find they have loads of flex. so I had to remake them. I'm on my 3rd design now and I'm so frustrated, I could literally smash the radiator over the engine :mad:

I'm just going to have to start again in steel and weld the thing together. But I don't have any steel angle, so I can't get the job done over the Easter weekend..... plus all that aluminium angle is virtually scrap now. I could cry.

Also some goon on Ebay sent me the completely wrong part I ordered and is telling me its can still be used if I modify something else to compensate for the wrong part. I need to relax.

[twinturbo]

If it's the wrong part then he should sort it out, not expect you to work round it. Tell him your hourly rate is £35/h and estimate the time to modify to fit.

TT

[flyerncle]

If it's any consolation it will be stronger welded metal to metal.

[AshG]

to be honest the radiator mounts dont need to be mega strong. most people just use 1.5mm ali sheet bent to shape.

[AshG]

oh and a day working on building your own car is never a wasted day regardless of the outcome.

a day doing jobs on the house, cleaning up for the wife, going shopping etc is a wasted day.

[twinturbo]

Today...

got up at 6am with the kids, wife up at 9am. Me outside by 9:20 after an omlet for energy...

Aim was to strip as much of the remaining components of the nackered MK1 golf before the wife went to work.

Did well, got the column, fule tank, pump, side glass, 1 door , tailgate, and one side of the front suspension.

Took the dolly from under the roadster chassis and put it under the golf. And then at 11am ( 1hr 40 mins!! ) the wife and kids came back from a shopping trip and that was the end of the day.

Except at 7pm when I went out and shifted the other cars to make way for getting the Golf to the front of the drive for the scrapman... Unfortunatly my twinturbo XR4x4 refuses to start again.... BALLS....


So I had a short productive play...

TT

[AshG]

why are you scrapping a mk1 golf shell is it rotten? they fetch good money if they are in sound condition

[twinturbo]

It's not dreadful.. Needs a little work... But it's been offered to am aquintance, put on the forums, sold on ebay, offered second chance on ebay ....


MK1 shells actulay see to be worth jack..


It's a shame, but after 3 months of trying to find a home I have given up.. have made my profit out of the car.


TT