Building "Thor"
Discussion
Hydraulic drives are very inefficient unless they are very complex and computer controlled. They also generate a lot of heat too.
Clive has gone very quiet! Hope he is OK.
I have vastly more soil to move than his project and I decided I wanted a reliable (hopefully), modern machine.
I will consider a thread for my project. Didn't think about doing one until your posts.
Not sure I want to put too much info of it's whereabouts on a public forum for security reasons.
Paul
Clive has gone very quiet! Hope he is OK.
I have vastly more soil to move than his project and I decided I wanted a reliable (hopefully), modern machine.
I will consider a thread for my project. Didn't think about doing one until your posts.
Not sure I want to put too much info of it's whereabouts on a public forum for security reasons.
Paul
Storer said:
Clive has gone very quiet! Hope he is OK. Paul
Seems the ground is too hard at present + She who must be obeyed wants the new house reworked while he can’t work outside.Storer said:
Not sure I want to put too much info of its whereabouts on a public forum for security reasons. Paul
Good point well made.Steve
Storer said:
Hydraulic drives are very inefficient unless they are very complex and computer controlled. They also generate a lot of heat too.
Paul
Noted, cheers!Paul
(Yes, it was a fancy computer controlled tele-handler I was looking at, and was impressed with the low revs / build up of speed / control of slow movement etc.)
Keep them coming, and I agree with not giving the exact co-ordinates of your next build, but a thread would be ace!
For those of you with Sky TV, Discovery HD has got Wheeler Dealers on at present (21.30 Monday 16th January 2017).
Rattle-can Ed is working on the first V8 Cadillac to do the Peking Paris Rally in.
At last he is using new bolts and looks to be doing things properly.
So much of the car is reminding me of my project and the vast amount of work I have to do!!
A Wheeler Dealers episode worth a look at last.
Paul
Rattle-can Ed is working on the first V8 Cadillac to do the Peking Paris Rally in.
At last he is using new bolts and looks to be doing things properly.
So much of the car is reminding me of my project and the vast amount of work I have to do!!
A Wheeler Dealers episode worth a look at last.
Paul
Just saw this in auction, thought of your engine in the Stutz would be v cool bar the price of donar car!
http://www.rmsothebys.com/am17/amelia-island/lots/...
http://www.rmsothebys.com/am17/amelia-island/lots/...
I am sorry to disappoint but no progress due to other commitments.
I have spent the last 12 months moving both of my businesses to a new green field site. It is a major project (for me) including 6000sqm concrete!
This includes a 5000sqft barn which is almost completed and a 2700sqft workshop, for which I have planning now, and hope to have built before the middle of this summer. It will include a 900sqft mezzanine so I can have an office/relaxing area and more storage space. The building will also be fully insulated.
I have also started acquiring additional/fresh/extra kit for the new shop. These include a new 3ph plasma cutter, 12" band saw (currently nearing complete refurbishment in my old workshop), 4ft radial arm drill (awaiting it's refurbishment) and a Colchester Mascot 1600 lathe (also waiting) with DRO. The drill is additional and the others are replacements for older kit.
Most of my engineering kit is to go under the mezzanine, so I want it in the best order I can get it before it is installed!
This is a once-in-a-lifetime project which will be part of a business Trust for my children that they can rent out when I'm gone!
Once this is complete I hope to restart 'Project Thor' and run it alongside my Cerbera rebuild.
It, however, is not completely at a standstill. Charlie has completed the engine/transmission connection and starter mount. It is currently sitting in his workshop but hopefully will soon be fitted to the engine.......
I have spent the last 12 months moving both of my businesses to a new green field site. It is a major project (for me) including 6000sqm concrete!
This includes a 5000sqft barn which is almost completed and a 2700sqft workshop, for which I have planning now, and hope to have built before the middle of this summer. It will include a 900sqft mezzanine so I can have an office/relaxing area and more storage space. The building will also be fully insulated.
I have also started acquiring additional/fresh/extra kit for the new shop. These include a new 3ph plasma cutter, 12" band saw (currently nearing complete refurbishment in my old workshop), 4ft radial arm drill (awaiting it's refurbishment) and a Colchester Mascot 1600 lathe (also waiting) with DRO. The drill is additional and the others are replacements for older kit.
Most of my engineering kit is to go under the mezzanine, so I want it in the best order I can get it before it is installed!
This is a once-in-a-lifetime project which will be part of a business Trust for my children that they can rent out when I'm gone!
Once this is complete I hope to restart 'Project Thor' and run it alongside my Cerbera rebuild.
It, however, is not completely at a standstill. Charlie has completed the engine/transmission connection and starter mount. It is currently sitting in his workshop but hopefully will soon be fitted to the engine.......
Great to hear it's still a goer! I was only thinking of it today, was talking to a chap who's selling some old headlamps and I thought they'd be perfect for this car! Big spun metal (not sure if they were copper or brass under the muck) acetylene lamps with bevelled glass. Definitely from something very fancy and pre war!
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