Thanks for another really interesting episode. It's always a pain, when you uncover small details like the shock tower. But keeping a smile on the dial is the way to go. Cheers
Stumbled across your videos there mate. Really good work. You have a well kitted out garage there! Top workmanship! You must have really understanding neighbours lol
Thank you mate. It has taken many years to get the kit together but I am pretty self sufficient (most of the time). The neighbours are brilliant, I never start before 10 with noise on the weekends and make sure it is one weekend a month at most so not to upset anyone.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate the kind comment. It isn't anything fancy but it was all I could afford. it is a SWP 210 www.waspsupplies.com/swp-redline-mig-210-turbo-230-volt-mig-welder-1350-p.asp I bought it years ago to make a cross member and have abused it ever since. I would love an upgrade that would allow me to weld for longer before needing to cool down, but you can't have everything in life all at once.
same year as mine chassis aint seen a welding torch yet so i got it galvanised lol,if that thread issue happend to me i would of ran the mig round it then tapped a new thread onto it but luckely i have loads of them lol,you have the gear to do those repairs easily ref the bottom of the shock onto the axel just weld a socker washer in place job done no need to mess around trying to make the hole perfect
That's great! Unfortunately my father in law used abused and neglected the old girl as a farm truck for 20 years so it never had any love. It was also a on a cattle farm, so the muck is even more corrosive. I genuinely love comments like this, because it never occurred to me to run the welder around, lathe it down and put a new thread on. Thanks for the idea.
@graham-martin5847 haha same, luckily there is an agricultural engineers workshop 4 minutes from home, and they let me use their kit if I need it. Nothing fancy, I use www.toolden.co.uk/p/sealey-sb997-shot-blaster-with-water-trap-wheels-37l/ for the chassis and outside stuff. And I use play sand as the media. It is a fraction of the cost and not harmful when it blows around. I sweet it up, sieve ot and put it back in. A slow process, but again it save a lot of money.
So far so good. I am very bad at painting, always to thick or to thin, but this has been kind to me and dried very nicely. where it has been on for a few months, it seems to have sealed very well. i have used other chassis type paint and rust starts to creep through, but not with this one.
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Thanks for another really interesting episode. It's always a pain, when you uncover small details like the shock tower. But keeping a smile on the dial is the way to go. Cheers
Thank you for your comment, I am making good progress now, more to come soon hopefully
Stumbled across your videos there mate. Really good work. You have a well kitted out garage there! Top workmanship! You must have really understanding neighbours lol
Thank you mate. It has taken many years to get the kit together but I am pretty self sufficient (most of the time). The neighbours are brilliant, I never start before 10 with noise on the weekends and make sure it is one weekend a month at most so not to upset anyone.
Just started following you. Nice work but what welder are you using? Very impressed for a rebuild in a drive
Thank you very much, I really appreciate the kind comment. It isn't anything fancy but it was all I could afford. it is a SWP 210 www.waspsupplies.com/swp-redline-mig-210-turbo-230-volt-mig-welder-1350-p.asp I bought it years ago to make a cross member and have abused it ever since. I would love an upgrade that would allow me to weld for longer before needing to cool down, but you can't have everything in life all at once.
same year as mine chassis aint seen a welding torch yet so i got it galvanised lol,if that thread issue happend to me i would of ran the mig round it then tapped a new thread onto it but luckely i have loads of them lol,you have the gear to do those repairs easily ref the bottom of the shock onto the axel just weld a socker washer in place job done no need to mess around trying to make the hole perfect
That's great! Unfortunately my father in law used abused and neglected the old girl as a farm truck for 20 years so it never had any love. It was also a on a cattle farm, so the muck is even more corrosive. I genuinely love comments like this, because it never occurred to me to run the welder around, lathe it down and put a new thread on. Thanks for the idea.
@@MicallefMade i always think of repair before replace just the way my dad brought me up i fix everything and anything
@@MicallefMade wish i had a lathe lol i build my defenders on my drive putting m57 in mine soon,what kinda shot blasting gear you using?
@graham-martin5847 haha same, luckily there is an agricultural engineers workshop 4 minutes from home, and they let me use their kit if I need it. Nothing fancy, I use www.toolden.co.uk/p/sealey-sb997-shot-blaster-with-water-trap-wheels-37l/ for the chassis and outside stuff. And I use play sand as the media. It is a fraction of the cost and not harmful when it blows around. I sweet it up, sieve ot and put it back in. A slow process, but again it save a lot of money.
@graham-martin5847 an M57, gosh I can dream haha
How do you rate the paint you used.
So far so good. I am very bad at painting, always to thick or to thin, but this has been kind to me and dried very nicely. where it has been on for a few months, it seems to have sealed very well. i have used other chassis type paint and rust starts to creep through, but not with this one.