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Started by _Hamster_ , Oct 13 2010 02:43 PM

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#551 _judgelj_

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Posted 10 October 2013 - 12:18 AM

Yeah dont pull it apart it is spring loaded isnt it?. My double diaphragm cost me 300 rebuild so around there no more i dont think. And they will paint it too!

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#552 _Hamster_

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Posted 10 October 2013 - 12:35 PM

mmm Ill keep me money and do it last....Don't need it atm

anyways, found a box.

the rest of it was like 3 stombergs and a couple fuel bowl things and what ever else.

Managed to get the handle off eventualy.

This is after i degreased, oiled, armor all'd it and......yea i need a new one if i can get just the handle.

looks like a turd

so i ground it back a bit

cant really get in there but the paint seems a ok.

painted (painted over the rivets cause i couldn't be bothered taping them)

As you can see im a horrible painter, i think i put it on to thick instead of slowly building it up.....i dunno.

So now i need. The bog to finish to door. Some more black paint. Some more etch primer and some engine enaml stuff cause the can i have now is stuffed, still half full. I cleaned the cap, put a new cap on and it still isnt working properly so ill prob throw it to the shithouse.

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#553 Rockoz

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Posted 10 October 2013 - 01:38 PM

If you buy bog and intend doing a fair bit of work, dont stuff around with the little tins, get a 4 litre size tin

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#554 _judgelj_

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Posted 10 October 2013 - 03:56 PM

Good on you for getting on with the small stuff. It's important.

Careful grinding welds as they might look ugly, but without them you are compromising the joins integrity.

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#555 _Hamster_

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Posted 10 October 2013 - 09:14 PM

I was gonna get a mini tin and see how good i am but we will see.

Yea the rod was sorta the ugly bit, for some reason it stuck out around 2mm or so above the weld. So i basicly just ground that back to the weld and didn't go any further.

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#556 Rockoz

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Posted 10 October 2013 - 09:48 PM

Most bog you put on will come off again.

Most areas you do will probably end up being done 3 or more times until you get it right.

Buying little tins will work out very expensive.

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#557 _Hamster_

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Posted 11 October 2013 - 04:51 PM

Well, the plan is to do that 1 door and see if im happy with it before i start doing the rest of the car. I was going to do just the repairs and let a professional finish it off with all that for me. Ill see how i go.

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#558 _LONA-CK_

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Posted 11 October 2013 - 05:08 PM

here is a tip for you man,,, when using little spray tins once you have finished with it for that time turn the tin upside down and spray left over shit out that way it will be all good for next time you use it.

cheers gong

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#559 _Hamster_

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Posted 11 October 2013 - 05:13 PM

Yea i do that. I think its just.....crap paint i dunno.

But yea i learnt to do that a few years back with work and things.

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#560 _Hamster_

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Posted 12 October 2013 - 02:14 PM

Painted the pedals black, one piece i sanded back to much between coats and looks gay ass all shit so i might redo that (bit behind the grill)

Didn't get any picks cause i got the shits. 3 Days a week work and latley i havent even been getting 3 days so gotta some up my opinions and go with photography or join the army and hurry up about it. Which means buying a car etc etc lifes complicated blah blah.

So ill get pics tomorrow or monday seen as im not fricken working, i hate the work anyways which is a bonus.

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#561 madtoranajzedded

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 01:17 AM

here is a tip for you man,,, when using little spray tins once you have finished with it for that time turn the tin upside down and spray left over shit out that way it will be all good for next time you use it.

cheers gong

heres another tip bud,epoxy primer bonds better to bare metal better than bog,while it is itself an even better surface for plastic fillers,because bog is hygroscopic,that means over time resins leach out of the filler making it dry and crumbly and allowing corrosion to set in,puting epoxy on first stops that ,and when you sand bog use 60 or 80p in an x pattern and when you are getting close use a finer sandpaper to finish ,once you start to go through the epoxy primer ,just put another coat of epoxy over the bog,bog cant get wet either .hope that helps ya hamster

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#562 _Hamster_

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 11:37 AM

Gotta make a list of tips before i forget all this.

Thanks jason

So i put the pedals back together they are not to bad, the handbrake is all dusty and rat turd but i got no paint left. The wind picked up here the past few days and i just had the bits in the open garage drying but obviously the winds got in there and some dust and crap has stuck with the paint....so ill prob redo the handbrake.....pedals arn't to bad i can live with them.

And dunno if i should get paint. I think the orange field day is comming up next week or something so i might have a good look at some air compressors.....mind you it won't fit in the boot but yea ill have a look at all that stuff first and see which way im gonna shake.

Then after all the family stuff dad couldn't get the kitchen done in his 3-4 weeks off so i figured i would attempt to help even though i have no idea what im doing.

And now my arm is the purple and swollen from a frOcking bee sting i might have to go see those anoying doctor people. But ill wait for dad to get home seen as he knows all that shit being an ambo and in the rescue sqaud and w/e

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#563 _judgelj_

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 08:25 PM

i wonder if those 240v dual action orbital sanders are any good

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#564 _Hamster_

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 09:36 PM

seemed ok.

But....I got no idea what im doing as i said.

The other ones we looked at had less crunt or were like more than 50 bucks more expensive so we picked that one.

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#565 _Hamster_

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Posted 20 October 2013 - 11:25 AM

its hip to be square as heuy lewis says.

This is what i was left with after wind and stuff, most of it comes off but ill sand it back a bit and repaint it.

Then i might tackle this next......70% sure ill do that black.

Still got no idea were the frOck the welder is ;/

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#566 _Hamster_

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Posted 27 October 2013 - 10:55 AM

so went to orange field day on...friday getting up at 1:45am blows serious ass.

Anyways got a few goodies, some i can use for the car some i can't (dad bought them for him but we won't tell him they are actualy mine)

I don't think they are as good as the other one but time will tell.

some aluminium thing for the vice so it doesnt damge it or something (iuno)

and a new drill cause dad blew up his 30 year old other one about a year ago or something.

kitchen and what nots getting in the way so hopefully i do a bit more at the end of the week or something.

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#567 _judgelj_

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Posted 28 October 2013 - 01:28 PM

What is that vice thing because i want one. My vice has pretty aggressive jaws and i always have to use rags to protect everything.

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#568 Toranamat69

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Posted 28 October 2013 - 01:34 PM

Vice softjaws - I got alloy and polyurethane ones from Dawn when I bought my 2 new vices.

Alloy ones still easily mark aluminium if you are hanging onto that.

Polyurethane soft jaws are too soft to really be much use for anything you want to hang onto very tight.

Timber soft jaws are the only thing I have found that can hang onto alluminium tight enough to work it without marking the surface badly.

Edited by Toranamat69, 28 October 2013 - 01:35 PM.

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#569 _Hamster_

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Posted 28 October 2013 - 04:17 PM

ummm.....ill get you the thingo judge and edit this post with the aswer

Doesn't have phone number of website ;s

Edited by Hamster, 28 October 2013 - 04:25 PM.

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#570 _Macca97_

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Posted 28 October 2013 - 04:38 PM

^^^^^^ and its AUSSIE MADE

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#571 _judgelj_

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Posted 28 October 2013 - 06:32 PM

Yeah perfect now i know what its called ill ebay it

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#572 _Hamster_

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Posted 28 October 2013 - 09:14 PM

Yea comes in 3 different sizes.

I think we got ours for 20 bucks or something.

goodluck

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#573 _Hamster_

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Posted 31 October 2013 - 03:27 PM

Was gonna do stuff tomorow cause im home and realised i have no friken paint D:

So ill have to grab some more of that.

Dad was suposed to pick up the welder this week but im 90% sure he has forgotten and he gets a shoulder operation next thurs so......i might have to do that.

um....kitchen sorta kinda not really kinda sorta nearly done so shed should be free soon. Neil was gonna have an auction of his place but i think that isnt going ahead now im not sure but if it is.....i have 1-2weeks or what ever it was to get the car out of there which is no big deal providing i have room for it.

Might be getting a tiny wee bit of uncles money only gonna be half what his car gets sold for which could be me a new compressor and maybe some other bits.....its only a peugot so its not a great deal of monies but thats ok i wasn't expecting any (other half for bro) and i think im getting his music stuff im not sure (really happy about that if i am)

and yea so ill get some more paint might even look at seriously getting a better compressor whilst im at it.

edit: anyone has shit brands and good brands for compressors much appreciated

Edited by Hamster, 31 October 2013 - 03:34 PM.