The Tupperware Turd will be back!!

[owelly]

You'll need to use Brickex wire though....

[tommi]

that would make an Awesome £999 advert

reads "save money on the build...... child labour is free!"

[TeamTotalWankel]

that would make an Awesome £999 advert

reads "save money on the build...... child labour is free!"

You're joking, mine wants a fiver just for washing a car!! I can get a full troop of 'illegals' to do it for less!!

[owelly]

Managed to find an hour or so today and tackled a problem I've been ignoring, hoping it would go away. A few minutes stood at the lathe and some random bits of Reliant and Maestro steering components....



Not pretty but it works. It was a bit lumpy in operation but a few squirts of copperslip has sorted that!

[owelly]

....and,.....I popped to my local friendly fabricators and picked up a piece of 2.5" stainless tube to make my own exhaust can. They had some 3" but the alloy tube I have to make the outer part of the can is only 4.5" and I need to be able to get some packing in there!! The ally I'm using for the outer used to be the main gate barrier at work until some tit drove into it with a Transit I wonder how long it will take for the black and yellow paint to burn off?

[bulletproofbob]

[quote="owellyuntil some tit drove into it with a Transit [/quote]
it was NOT me!!!

[TeamTotalWankel]

I'm guessing it was a 'Pie eating Whitbyite' with 'desires' on the post material

[owelly]

So true....

[Renrut]

Managed to find an hour or so today and tackled a problem I've been ignoring, hoping it would go away. A few minutes stood at the lathe and some random bits of Reliant and Maestro steering components....



Not pretty but it works. It was a bit lumpy in operation but a few squirts of copperslip has sorted that!

Love the subliminal hint

Looks nice enough. Was the copper slip needed just to free it off or is it actually binding in operation?

[owelly]

Neither. I just like copperslip....

[Renrut]

The angle of those UVs do look pretty extreme.

[Relentless Rob]

Neither. I just like copperslip....

Copperslip is also less reactive to heat. That close to the manifold can't be a bad thing eh?

[owelly]

Finally got a bit of time to play with my Turd.
This morning looked like this...


I butchered this device to make a gizmo for putting beads on pipes. I call it the wafty crank machine...




So coolant pipes made and fitted. Fuel pipes made and fitted. Reverse alternator bracket made and fitted. Clutch master and slave cylinders fitted and working. Tonight looks like this...



Still a long way to go but I'm getting there!!

[owelly]

After chasing a demon electrical fault, which turned out to be a dodgey injector loom connector, the Pug now runs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I2zB8EiOdY

'Just' got the bulkhead to build, brake pipes to make and fit and the car will be ready to be put on a trailer, towed to Mallory, and then towed back home again.....

[fha772]