good job mate:thumb:
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good job mate:thumb:
youve been watchin to much Discovery Turbo lol
great work again ade
pmsl! That's exactly what I have been doing - some mad show on Saturday night called chop cut rebuild!
Looking good mate, when do you think it will hit the roads?
Looks excellent mate, usual top work, i really cannot wait to see this project once its finished, just out of interest what are your plans for the interior? are you going to do something totally random like the punto headlights? punto dashboard? look forward to your reply.
just read through this whole thread - brilliant read!!
This is great work Ade, can't wait to see it moving along. Will be keeping an eye on this!
P.s love the models!
interior will have a custom dash (using MG ZR rounded air vents) in car PC, touch screen, custom door cards, retrimmed seats, head lining etc...
That's a fair bit away though - the aim this year is to get the exterior done and the car on the road in time for VBOA or Trax at the latest...
Nice bit of metal bumping there Ade, you best get practicing with that welder soon!
looking good
at least on a par with joff eventually
Saturday 19/01/2008
Been working late shifts all week so not done owt since I made the extensions for the front of the wings however today I decided to take up the challenge and teach myself welding!
Everyone and everything I've read says it's hard but once you master it it's a doddle - feck they aren't wrong!
It's harder than a hard thing! I was at it for a couple of hours just on hacked up bits of scrap and only started to get the feel for it towards the end of the session...
I started by trying to butt weld some scrap metal and tried to get an even amount of weld on both sides as well as practicing just welding through a normal whole piece of scrap...talk about hard.
Anyway this is what I got up to -
Here's my welder -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...elding0001.jpg
and here's my reference book -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...elding0002.jpg
I started with some old cut off bits of metal from my old pattern wings - it's about 0.8mm-0.9mm thick so based on the welder instructions I set my gas to reg 4, my wire to about speed 6 and my power to MIN (I have MIN and MAX settings) and off I went!
BLOODY HELL! For starters you can'tsee a thing through the mask and trying to hold the gun at the right angle whilst trying to move it about is bloody hard!
Here's my 1st attempt at trying to butt joint 2 bits -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...lding00016.jpg
The problem was penetration - it didnt seem to want to go through -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...lding00017.jpg
As you can see - it just sat on the top in big blobs -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...lding00018.jpg
Turns out after reading the book that the power isnt high enough to penetrate the thickness of the steel so I wacked it on MAX and after blowing a ton of holes in the metal turned up the wire speed and eventually started to get the hand of it. here's some tack welds - front -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...lding00010.jpg
and back -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...lding00011.jpg
Granted these are on solid steel (no butt joints) but I was impressed to manage this without blowing holes.
By this time it was 6pm so I called it a night...