Stew's build thread

[skov]

Hi Stew, welcome to the forum!
Nice choice of donor

[stew]

After a frustrating week of not getting anything done (ended up working late two nites! and finished off a metal folder the other 3 nights), and not having power for thursday and friday nights, i made some progress today!

Got (hopefully) all my steel for my chassis, 25x25mm RHS, and 20x20mm RHS, and bought a 8x4ft sheet of 12mm plywood, and a few lenghts of 2x3" framing wood.

I ended up getting 25x25x2mm RHS which i hope wont add too much weight compared with the 1.6mm listed in the haynes book. Should give it more strength as a positive! What did you guys/girls end up using?

A few hours later and a quick coat of white matt paint, my build platform was complete!



I did what probably most of you guys did, by framing round the outside, and then putting a cross in the middle, and decided to put 26" legs on it, to bring it up to a comfortable working height.

Ready to get started marking out and cutting and tacking up the basic frame tomorrow.

Thought id share a few pics of my garage, and a few of my "toys"!

[ayjay]

Is the mirror for when you touch up the eye shadow between welds

[Cyberbeej]

looks like you've got all the good tools.

Good luck with you build.

[stew]

Originally Posted by ayjay

Is the mirror for when you touch up the eye shadow between welds

Its handy for looking at root penetration of pipe welds!

Thats me story and im sticking to it!