It Has Begun!

[londonsean69]

Originally Posted by Bonzo

I gave the vice a turbo tweak.

Turbo Tweak - love it, must remember that

[Bonzo]

Originally Posted by londonsean69

Turbo Tweak - love it, must remember that

Yes, I have an assortment of long bars & pipes for every occaision.

Never a big fan of the Jeremy Clarkson MF hammer routine, I much prefer the It will yield or break one

[car.mad]

Originally Posted by Bonzo

Yes, I have an assortment of long bars & pipes for every occaision.

Never a big fan of the Jeremy Clarkson MF hammer routine, I much prefer the It will yield or break one

hehe hammers are fun, have all mine lined up and for some strange reason there named aswell

another little update... I HAVE MONEY! so i can buy some steel, went to a scrap yard today to weigh in a load of stripped copper wire i spent ages doing but it was WELL worth it... for 60kg of copper i got £210 then another £26 for 9kg of ciopper pipe propper chuffed all my mates were taking the mick saying whats the point and you'll get nothing for it... whos smiling now?

will be paying a visit to a steel supplier on monday/tuesday to order the steel and onother visit to a welding shop to buy a 'propper' mask.

well chuffed with today

Jake

[Bonzo]

That is the way to do it

Done exactly the same

Weighed a pile of scrap in. This paid for 3 sheets of alloy & still had change

Locosting at its best

[car.mad]

UPDATE....

finally got the steel on saturday morning and then a trip to machine mart saw the arival of one of those evloution fury 3 saw thinggys (the little one) which is bl**dy evil!

set to yesterday afternoon and got all the BR's cut. with some hand pains and shouting at things (not the best start)

this morning got up and realised i should still be in bed (had a party last night) went into the garage and remembered why i should still be in bed, was broken glass and tab ends everywhere so i started by cearing up then set to tacking the BR's together which went quite well.

then the front frame began! cut the bottom piece fine but what a bas***d FF2 and FF3 are, made 2 c**k ups got one of them right first time (after making them out of some scrap wood first) but the second one 2 attempts later is still wrong so ill do it tomorrow when i have some more energy and patiance

quite happy with progress so far could do with some more hands though because mine are killing me

Jake

[gingea1pom]

The FF’s are a baptism of fire. What you learn here comes in handy when you get to the angled seat back frame.

Enjoy.

[HandyAndy]

Originally Posted by gingea1pom

The FF’s are a baptism of fire. What you learn here comes in handy when you get to the angled seat back frame.

Enjoy.

i have made quite a few chassis kits & the front frame & seat back rails still give me grief if my mind is not " on the job in hand"

cheers
andy

[Bonzo]

Know the feeling well Jake.

Some of those compound mitres FUBAR'd my brain big time

I have been working with steel most of my working life

Guess your head just needs to be in the right place at the time

Trouble is with me is that I tend to work on autopilot & my brain is thinking about seveal jobs down the line