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Sept 9, 2016 16:31:18 GMT
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Today I was mainly cleaning up the place, but also welded up this from some left-over bits...  Also made a holder for my vintage tyre irons & punches and mounted them all next to the window.  And seeing you concern, @johnnybravo , about my severe lack of hammers - I also made this:   Cheers, Jan |
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Sept 9, 2016 16:52:12 GMT
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Today I was mainly cleaning up the place, but also welded up this from some left-over bits... Also made a holder for my vintage tyre irons & punches and mounted them all next to the window. And seeing you concern, @johnnybravo , about my severe lack of hammers - I also made this: Cheers, Jan Now thats an idea! I'm nicking that one, |
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heathrobinson
Part of things
Broken everything
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Club RR Member Number: 111
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Sept 14, 2016 21:38:54 GMT
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Great bench, I really like the drop-down door. That vice is proper sexy too!
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Sept 18, 2016 8:37:06 GMT
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Thank you!  I'm in love with that vice, best I ever had (first too xD ). It was advertised online, so I contacted the guy. When I got to his place, he dug out another vice. Not a bad one, but not as nice. Told him that's not the one I came for. After a lot of discussion, he invited me into a almost completely collapsed building, with gaping holes in the floor, crashed roof and iron supports every 2m to prevent it from completely collapsing... Scary place, littered with trash and piles of crashed ceiling. And in a dark corner, under a pile of rubble & trash - there it was. I literally dug it out of it's grave - the guy wanted twice the money advertised for it, being his grand dads he never wanted to sell and so on. I didn't care and payed him without negotiating. I've seen a lot of those vices advertised, but never one with the jaws this high. One of the best tools I ever bought And big enough to hold a 6-cylinder head  Didn't continue on the work bench, no time. Resp. too much lazyness. But next step is to build the drawers. Made plans for that, only need to buy some materials & have a little time. Or less lazyness. And I need to buy or borrow an M12 tap to plug the hole I drilled for lifting the top onto the frame.  I decided to leave it in place, in case I have to lift it. Wont be in the center of gravity, but that's not a huge issue. Of course the hex will face down once installed  That's all. Cheers, Jan |
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Sept 18, 2016 20:43:57 GMT
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Get a longer grub screw , then you can put a lock nut on the underside so it doesn't fall out. If you get one with a flat end or grind it flat you'd hardly know it was there.
Brian
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Dec 28, 2016 17:38:40 GMT
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 With it being the holidays, I had a little bit of time at my hands to start with building the drawers. Nothing fancy, just very simple wooden drawers. You may remember the U-profiles I welded in; they'r to hold & guide the drawers.  Just two (greased) U-profiles sliding in each other. I let the profiles bolted to the drawer extend a bit beyond the drawer. This does a reasonably good job of stopping it from dropping to the floor. It's not completely idiot-proof, but then it's only me working on that bench. No stops, no complication - just a simple very basic drawer to store cräp.  Due to the ice cold weather I didn't realy do much more... Except restore the latest scrap-bin rescue. yesterday this looked like a pile of rust with a shattered handle. 3.75€ woth of ash wood and a bit of citric acid and wire wool had it looking like new:  Basically a free 1000g hammer Slowly extending my range of thumb splitting devices... The thing in the background is also a scrap yard rescue; though I have no idea what it's intended for... Straightening pipes/bars?  If anyone knows - please share your knowledge Cheers, Jan |
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Made the second drawer today...  And now there's two big drawers under the top. Which is one of the reasons I used a grub screw to plug the hole in the top. I don't want anything potentially catching & blocking the drawer. Been there, done that. Not pretty... Also covered the front with aluminium sheet.  I tried to give them a circular brushed finished, but sort of failed so it looks a bit sh!t really... Whatever. Easy & fast to reskin or re-brush.  Not sure if I'm going to build a third drawer, since it will interfere a bit with the vice's handle. Though on the other hand that's not really a problem of any sort. And now comes the big decision of what to store in the drawers  That's all for now. Thanks for reading Cheers, Jan |
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Hi! Instead of continuing on the workbench, I started a workbench related secondary sub-project. Ever since I moved the workbench form the basement to the garage, I was left with this pile of sh!t that makes it impossible to find ANYthing, let alone get to the storage rack behind it...  At about 14:30 I materialised my plan of making a plan to build a solid shelf. And so I bought a bunch of timbers and started. Started to make a plan. A plan of how I'm actually going to build this... Layed out some timbers, started to cut them into smaler pieces - and it sort of went together.  Now I'm not a wh0re of the spirit level - but boy is it satisfying  Ran out of wood screws at about 18°° - and called it a day. The main foundation of the shelf is assembled, tomorrow I'll put in some boards and then probably build some subshelfes to store smaller stuff. No plan, I'll build them as required.  The yellow shelf in the background will be removed, this is where I'm going to put the lathe. That's all for now. Cheers, Jan |
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Very nice. I can't tell from photo,but if you have room to use the ends,i would fit some simple bars across the end of the shelves to hang drums of cable etc on,useful just to pull the length of wire you need. A bit like this highly detailed edit of one of your pics ........  |
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Hi! Good thinking! I had the same idea... But for another location. If I put it where you sugested, I fear the door might jam (opens to the inside). It's reealy close. Though I'm sure I'll make use of that space sooner or later in one or another way. And if it's just to hang v-belts. Cheers, Jan |
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Yesterday I continued with my little improvised wood-workshop.   Build two little sub-shelfes and filled it up with all the cräp I collected during the years. A lot of it I'll never need, some stuff is usefull and then there are a couple pearls, like two NOS MkII Mini rear light lenses in they'r original Leyland box. Or my collection of 1.5" Reece Fish carburettors.  Getting there. I think I might even build one more to go into the garage. There's currently a metal shelf just bolted to my "storage deck" which is not quite as practical as it should be. That was a big step towards getting my chaotic collection of random car parts sorted. Hope it was not too boring - thanks for reading. Cheers, Jan |
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melle
South West
It'll come out in the wash.
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Or my collection of 1.5" Reece Fish carburettors. Did you use them on Minis? I have a collection of carbs that can be fitted to Saab/ Ford V4s and a Reece Fish is still missing. Wonderful pieces of engineering! |
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www.saabv4.com'70 Saab 96 V4 "The Devil's Own V4" '77 Saab 95 V4 van conversion project '88 Saab 900i 8V
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Hi! I never got round to actually fitting them. Only tried once but didn't really get it to work. And didn't have the time to get into it. However, as soon as the Mini's got a new TÜV, I'll play with them again! They are such clever pieces of engineering. I also love the idea of that spring-loaded telescopic throttle actuator, really clever!  Cheers, Jan |
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rollingcoal
Part of things
we can engineer a way around that, maybe
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very nice steel bench top job
I do hope you earthed it
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A55 Austin Cambridge 1961
Triumph Spartan 1965
mk1 Ford Escort 2 door 1968
Peugeot 406 diesel estate 1998
Citroen Xsara hatchback diesel 1999
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How would I do that? and why should I do that? If you don't mind me asking. Back to the basement; today I moved the lathe over, re-arranged a lot of stuff. and actually threw stuff out. Like a billion used spark plugs, broken engine bits and knackered distributor caps. All from many years ago, when I basically had NO money at all and everything was possibly usefull. Like - knackered dizzy caps.  Anyway; I think I can call this man-cave 2 now. Need to extend the cord for the lathe motor, though. And find a nice route for it to the nearest 400V socket.  I'm going to install curtains to go in front of the shelfes, to stop any chips getting there. It's not an ideal place for the lathe. But it's still a lot better than having the lathe in the loundry room..... Cheers, Jan |
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Jan, You really, really, pi55 me off! A bloody garage, a dirty great workbench and a basement with room for a lathe. Maybe I'll get to move this year and at least have one of the three! |
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Haha, and there's me thinking I have way too little space  And to make more, I used up some left-overs and build a third drawer. Not sure if I'm leaving the aluminum covers on or not, I feel more like replacing them with plain steel/sheet metal. Not quite happy with the look...   That's all I did today, it's freezing cold and the gas heater has burned all the propane... Brrrr! That's something you probably don't have to worry about, mr. georgeb And the place would require a MAJOR clean up, right now it's littered with sh!t all over again... Cheers, Jan |
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Jan 12, 2017 17:50:18 GMT
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Did you do the styling on the alloy cover yourself?/
It looks really well btw
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Jan 15, 2017 14:28:25 GMT
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Hi! Thanks! yes, I did. Just a brush in a cordless drill really. That's why it's not quite straight... I think I'll leave them on, the more I look at it the more it grows on me. Anyway; I've build yet another little shelf to store consumables and other random sh!t that had collected on the floor. Also re-arranged a lot of stuff, tidied the place up and threw out a lot of garbage that collected during the years.  ^also hung all my rust free W124 wings on the wall. And now there's enough space to put a car inside, again. I'm always too lazy to park the car inside - and then start littering the place with cräp...   During cleaning up, I found my very elaborate and precisely drawn blueprint for that workbench...  And since it's sunday and I didn't have a dustpan - I recycled one of the many empty screen wash canisters. Ha!  Next up: I need some sort of a tyre rack to store my wheels... I've allready made a plan and collected a large timber. Cheers, Jan |
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Jan 15, 2017 18:55:17 GMT
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Just caught up with this thread.
The bench was a great build.
Your rust free W124 panels make me smile.
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