What did you do in the garage yesterday?

[portzi]

s p a c e m a n said:

It's fine using it over the powder coat, I used it on a couple of wishbone years ago and it was stil as good as the day I put it on. I just wire brushed the rusty bits back and then used that hammerite kurust stuff on it, degreased the rest of the powdercoat and painted straight on it. I think the main reason that it took me so long really is that I went from the grey powdercoat to white, it took 3 coats to cover it satisfactorily. Did the engine bay and front wishbones with the small starter pack that they sell

Steve_D said:

You forgot to mention it also stinks.

Steve

The fumes help the time move faster

Edited by s p a c e m a n on Monday 31st October 04:13

Gents your old enough to know by now if the risk assessment has skull on it and toxic vapour labels mask up please.

[Ptr400J]

Spent a couple of hours in bonnet connecting coolant hoses and trying to fit hose clips in very tight spaces!

The chiropractor is on standby yet again!

Did TVR deliberately make decisions to make things as awkward as possible for the owner ?

[phazed]

Believe me, after watching my son renew the inlet port motor on my ML, (and turbo off) a Chimaera is a piece of cake!

[Ptr400J]

phazed said:

Believe me, after watching my son renew the inlet port motor on my ML, (and turbo off) a Chimaera is a piece of cake!

[Alexdaredevils]

Pah, did my turbo swap in 3 hours on my merc

[phazed]

Alexdaredevils said:

Pah, did my turbo swap in 3 hours on my merc

Where's the raspberry smiley!

[Alexdaredevils]

phazed said:

Alexdaredevils said:

Pah, did my turbo swap in 3 hours on my merc

Where's the raspberry smiley!

[Discopotatoes]

I've converted my mig welder to take a Euro fitting spool gun and had a go at welding ally

[Sardonicus]

Discopotatoes said:

I've converted my mig welder to take a Euro fitting spool gun and had a go at welding ally

Any good ? heard of em

[AceOfHearts]

Fitted my new dash and solid mounted the drivers seat to get it an inch lower in the car.

[Discopotatoes]

Sardonicus said:

Discopotatoes said:

I've converted my mig welder to take a Euro fitting spool gun and had a go at welding ally

Any good ? heard of em

It's early days, it does put a lot of heat into the weld so I'm just adjusting Settings at the moment

[Alexdaredevils]

Last time I used one of those guns it worked better pushing the weld if you know what I mean

[Discopotatoes]

Alexdaredevils said:

Last time I used one of those guns it worked better pushing the weld if you know what I mean

I agree I'm going to have a play tomorrow

[davetripletvr]

Alexdaredevils said:

Last time I used one of those guns it worked better pushing the weld if you know what I mean

Is that like giving, rather than receiving.

[portzi]

Discopotatoes said:

Sardonicus said:

Discopotatoes said:

I've converted my mig welder to take a Euro fitting spool gun and had a go at welding ally

Any good ? heard of em

It's early days, it does put a lot of heat into the weld so I'm just adjusting Settings at the moment

What is your final goal with it? Will you be welding any load bearing joint?

[Discopotatoes]

portzi said:

Discopotatoes said:

Sardonicus said:

Discopotatoes said:

I've converted my mig welder to take a Euro fitting spool gun and had a go at welding ally

Any good ? heard of em

It's early days, it does put a lot of heat into the weld so I'm just adjusting Settings at the moment

What is your final goal with it? Will you be welding any load bearing joint?

Just little bits and pieces to be honest.
I welded a couple of blobs on the inside of the rocker covers so I could drill and tap a 4mm hole to attach my cable tidys

A bit more tinkering

[neal1980]

Discopotatoes said:

I've converted my mig welder to take a Euro fitting spool gun and had a go at welding ally

Cool but I think you will strggle with smaller stuff...You need fast control over the weld and I found when I had my first TIG with no foot pedal I had a molten mess tried pulse settings etc but as soon as I got a new tig with a footpedal could do real precision welding on Alloy, Stainless / Mild.

You can get a good tig now for reasonable money I paid about £800 for ACDC R-tech (with 2 year warranty) but its paid for its self with full exhaust / manifolds , intercooler fab, rad fab its great.

I do have a big mig as well but never used it since getting the tig.

[Discopotatoes]

Another good day today

[ClassiChimi]

Discopotatoes said:

Another good day today

I assume there's a reason why the oil filler cap is on the drivers side.
Awesome.

[s p a c e m a n]

^^Engines in backwards