It Has Begun!

[londonsean69]

Originally Posted by Bonzo

I gave the vice a turbo tweak.

Turbo Tweak - love it, must remember that

[car.mad]

Originally Posted by thwang

hi car.mad
is that sunny emley near clayton west by chance

it is, why do you ask?

ohh and its not the jaws of the vice that broke was the internal screwwy bits, there all fixeded dow (big hammer and some brute force and ignorance)

[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.

[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

[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

[car.mad]

another lil update...

been at it again monday night and tonight, got the front frame done (or so i thought) last night, then had the afternoon off college today so i set to with the uprights and TR1 & TR2 got U3, U4, U5 & U6 on then TR1 & TR2 they all flew on straight and nice fits

The i set to with U1 & U2 and realised id made a complete bo**ocks of the front frame!

I have no idea how this has happened because for every single piece iv cut so far iv measured, checked then measured and checked then measured and checked again before i cut them! somehow iv managed to get it too tall at one end (3mm) and i think that iv tacked FF2 & FF3 on slightly wrong so im going to re-make the whole front frame with yet more checking. just so i know its right.

but other than that tis all going good, should be ready to order some more stuff in a week or so

anyone have any advice on the front frame would be much appreciated

Cheers

Jake