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[rodomo]

Thanks Grant!
Having a fiddle with these now, tool needs a tickle up, first pressing.

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[bat 53]

g'day 

are there left & right of those or just one hand

cheers  bat

[rodomo]

All the same left and right as far as I'm aware. My car was pretty much untouched.

[bat 53]

thanks

[rodomo]

Plenum plugged.

 

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[Indy Orange]

Looks good!

[rodomo]

Thanks Grant!
Having a fiddle with these now, tool needs a tickle up, first pressing.

So it appears that I can make these?  Do I want to?  No! Pain in the arse!   Would need $80 each to entertain the thought!

 

 

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[lctriples]

Rodomo, looking great, how do you get ridges/embossed shapes ect in patch panels you are making as they look fantastic!

Cheers Paul

[rodomo]

I use the Alofa method

[lctriples]

"alofa": sourced from Samoan Dictionary: Type: noun; meaning: love. "An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person."

 

Or does it stand for "A lot of *&%$#@! attitude/application/action?"

[rodomo]

"An intense feeling of affection and care towards another Torana owner"

Sorry, sounds like a love story? I just make bits to fit my own resto that no-one else makes.

"A lot of *&%$#@! around" is more the case

[lctriples]

[rodomo]

40 odd + years ago I did my apprenticeship in government department in Melb.

 

Back then, money was no object and the tradesmen could spend the time to teach.

 

I was fortunate I suppose to be keen to learn. They reconditioned their own engines, gearboxes, diffs, alternators, starters, fuel injection equipment (diesel) on site as well as the mundane servicing. They also had a body shop and a welding team.

 

The foreman of the "machine shop" stopped while I was having a crack at sharpening a drill on the grinder. He pulled me up as he could see I was struggling and said " to make any tool, first you have to understand what you want that tool to do"

 

He showed me how to sharpen drills and I have never forgotten those words of wisdom...……...and am fortunate that I can apply that philosophy to making bits and pieces for my car.

 

Now that's your bed time story...………………...go to sleep

[Ice]

40 odd + years ago I did my apprenticeship in government department in Melb.
 
Back then, money was no object and the tradesmen could spend the time to teach.
 
I was fortunate I suppose to be keen to learn. They reconditioned their own engines, gearboxes, diffs, alternators, starters, fuel injection equipment (diesel) on site as well as the mundane servicing. They also had a body shop and a welding team.
 
The foreman of the "machine shop" stopped while I was having a crack at sharpening a drill on the grinder. He pulled me up as he could see I was struggling and said " to make any tool, first you have to understand what you want that tool to do"
 
He showed me how to sharpen drills and I have never forgotten those words of wisdom...……...and am fortunate that I can apply that philosophy to making bits and pieces for my car.
 
Now that's your bed time story...………………...go to sleep

Yawn night

[Rockoz]

40 odd + years ago I did my apprenticeship in government department in Melb.

 

Back then, money was no object and the tradesmen could spend the time to teach.

 

I was fortunate I suppose to be keen to learn. They reconditioned their own engines, gearboxes, diffs, alternators, starters, fuel injection equipment (diesel) on site as well as the mundane servicing. They also had a body shop and a welding team.

 

The foreman of the "machine shop" stopped while I was having a crack at sharpening a drill on the grinder. He pulled me up as he could see I was struggling and said " to make any tool, first you have to understand what you want that tool to do"

 

He showed me how to sharpen drills and I have never forgotten those words of wisdom...……...and am fortunate that I can apply that philosophy to making bits and pieces for my car.

 

Now that's your bed time story...………………...go to sleep

 

 

After I left school, my first job was as a trainee technician with what was once Department of Civil Aviation.

6 months of the year I was there was dedicated to learning how to make things.

Getting used to using various hand tools and specialist stuff as well.

We did lots of drill sharpening too.

There was lots of filing involved. Making round things square, and square things round type of thing.

We learned specialist soldering techniques as well.

We had teachers who explained stuff really well, and were able to show how things were best done.

Was a great introduction into being someone who could use tools and make things.

I spent a couple of weeks at an experimental/development centre, where we made circuit boards and other stuff.

Thats where I learned to hate engineers. An attitude I carry most of the time nearly 40 years later.

They had to turn a concept from an engineer into something usable.

I spent 2 days piecing together bits of handtowel and toilet paper to piece together one of the engineers ideas.

The guy was brilliant in his own way. But cared little, and in fact knew little of what was needed to make his ideas work.

 

I left that job after a year.

Ended up as an apprentice electrician with AI&S at the time.

140 apprentice electricians

140 apprentice fitters

140 apprentice boilermakers

About 50 other trades apprentices.

This intake was done every year, and had been since the late 50s I believe.

Dont think it lasted much past the 80s though.

 

Again, all the basic stuff was learned.

Plus some really specialised stuff.

Kids came out of that place being actually able to do stuff.

They were way ahead of apprentices from private industry.

 

Places like this were also run buy government departments such as railways.

 

Its a shame that idiots sitting in comfy seats in air conditioned buildings couldnt see the value in continuing training kids the right skills.

[rodomo]

This pic used to hang on the wall at work. We had an engineer that looked just like this.

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[rodomo]

There's been a bit goin on. I've opted for the LH/X UC approach to the end of the sill. Squared off so some sort of sealant can be applied. Tried to make it in one piece but too many bends and angles applied so 3 piece was the go.

As mentioned earlier, I have deleted the screw in inner guard so (a) it cant gather crap and ( the flutes will actually function.

Something I always thought I would never do was to weld beads on to panel edges to adjust gaps. So be it I thought?

But the gap at the top of the door where it meets the guard and plenum was a shocker!

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Edited by rodomo, 14 October 2018 - 09:11 PM.

[rodomo]

Had a couple of tourists pop in and stay a day or two.

"The Whip" (code name) and his lovely wife "Natasha" (also a code name)

Anyway, the whip did his job and got me motivated...………..a bit.

Finished off a few pinholes in the earlier welds and then hit the repairs with the Poor 15 (as mentioned earlier)……….

Looks a bit grey but this is the undercoat. The whole lot will get a second coat of brew No# 2 which is black.

Also pulled the sill back down where it had been jacked up wrong in the past.

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[LC69GTR]

Spotto

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[RallyRed]

not so sure Agent,
Looks to me like the 4 blokes are just watching the other 2 until the Police arrive.
It is clear, by the "hands up" pose by the suspect on the left.
The other suspect with the Nats. shirt on is just happy, being happy, as he was just told it is "Friday again."
lol