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23rd June 2012, 10:35 PM
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More work!
Was able to get to Uni to use the equipment and used the Colchester lathe (Huge piece of kit!) to finish the mushroom inserts. Also found a piece of 40mm dia steel which i machined down to 31 and 27 mm diameters for the upper wishbone ends. This is an extra mm on the desired dimentions so that I can clean it up on the smaller lathes that I'm better acquainted with! Oh yeah, still waiting on the weather to get some welding done!  P.s. Pictures are on the way, just need to get round to uploading them! (might go do that now...) 
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#2
23rd June 2012, 11:26 PM
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Some Photos:
The Suspension mounts before I cut the ends off. They're simply made from a piece of box with holes drilled and then each chopped off the beam.  The Chassis from a while ago, now has most of the tranny tunnel in place.  The Donor car, mid-way through the final stage of dismantling:  I quite like the look of this!Just realised how behind I am on photo taking, will remedy the problem tomorow!  Last edited by Oscar : 27th June 2012 at 02:11 PM.
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#3
27th June 2012, 01:59 PM
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End of the Donor:
The shell has finally been fully decomisioned and "stored" for later removal:
 Should be safe here untill we have time to deal with it  Also, as promised, I've updated my supply of chassis records:   As you can see I've now got most of the tranny tunnel in place with the exception of one lower rail, this has been left off for now so that I can trial fit my gearbox; a 4wd mt75. This will be put in before painting happens! Last edited by Oscar : 27th June 2012 at 02:04 PM.
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#4
27th June 2012, 02:08 PM
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Mushrooms
Last Item to bring me up to date: The Mushrooms!
These have taken me many hours to make, but I can now add another item to the list of pats that I've made meself:   They're a bit rough around the top, but I will be smoothing them off some more as soon as I have time, honest! Wow! This brings me up to date!!!  Wait, no, one other thing; I'm now allowed to use one of the old calf sheds as my build area on the proviso that I do it up. This means I'm no longer dependant on the weather to get any welding done!
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#5
2nd July 2012, 03:23 PM
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Rs3/4
If anyone says the internet is just for porn (I'm a student!
) then they're lying! Was having major problems working out the position of RS15 on plates CP3/4 so used the old search function.Success! Found a 2 page long discussion between HandyAndy and NickHardy on just this problem!! Without this forum I would probably have made a terrible c*ck up. Did find find one error, drilled two of the holes on one of the plates on a random line about 10mm too close to the other pair Fortunately there was room to drill them in their proper place, now just have to weld up the mistakes and clean it up 
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#6
2nd July 2012, 05:14 PM
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Glad the previous discussion helped out, & good to hear the forum search function worked ok for you  cheers andy
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#7
3rd July 2012, 08:47 PM
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Wow, was starting to think noone was watching this thread!
That conversation layed it out clearly in so many ways it made it almost impossible to get it wrong. If anyone else ever reads this thread and needs the info the link is here: http://www.haynes.co.uk/forums/showt...?t=7982&page=2 and carries on for about 3 pages! Back to build: Now have a semi-clean indoorsy area to continue the build and have made much progress: Front suspension mounts fully lined up and welded CP3/4 cut and marked up Various other small parts cut ready for welding All welds cleaned and ground smooth where needed Also, got some M8 nuts and bolts in the post today for the underside of CP3/4. Went for some dome-heads in the hopes they wont need covering, should look snazzy One other thing: why no critisisms? There's no point writing all these essays if noone tells what I need to improve. Start finding faults!!!!!
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