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The Tupperware Turd will be back!!

Postby TeamTotalWankel » Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:06 pm

Oulton does sound a tad optimistic even by your last minute bodgery standards :crazy: I'm thinking that steering could be a vital element to complete a lap too!! :think: :lol:
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Postby owelly » Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:16 pm

Steering, schmeering. Steering is for girls.
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Postby fha772 » Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:45 pm

I've got an idea...

While your doing the rear brakes...
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Fiddle brakes!! :thumbup:

Steering sorted!!! :clap:
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Postby owelly » Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:06 pm

If there was any room in the footwell, I could have twin brake pedals....
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Postby owelly » Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:21 pm

Managed to grab a few minutes to play cars...

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Postby Renrut » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:29 pm

Looking good.

Have you tried moving it through its range of motion to make sure it doesn't bind up due to some misalignment?
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Postby TeamTotalWankel » Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:32 pm

Bind up? Bind up? How dare you!! :evil: :evil:
This a precision piece of engineering...that just happens to be made out of a lampost :D
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Postby owelly » Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:12 pm

Hmmm, I hadn't thought of that Will........ I mean, I've never been much good with technical stuff.
It seems to work with Lego.....
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Postby TeamTotalWankel » Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:44 pm

I'm surprised you didn't just transfer that over to the Turd and hope for the best! :lolno:
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Postby MFrV1 » Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:01 pm

Lego's the lightweight option.
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Postby DumDum » Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:05 pm

owelly wrote:Managed to grab a few minutes to play cars...

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Watts that then?!?!?!













Ill get my coat........
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Postby Renrut » Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:00 pm

owelly wrote:Hmmm, I hadn't thought of that Will........ I mean, I've never been much good with technical stuff.


:eh:

I once explained the idea of PCDs to a guy. Only to find out that he was a mechanical design engineer and the last job he worked on was the track system for the Challenger 2. His own fault really for being sarcastic :D
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Postby owelly » Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:59 pm

A bit like the conversation a few weeks before filming Safebreakers:
"so Owelly, you know about hydraulics?"
"oh, yeah Kev. I do them all the time."

That sarcasm also backfired.....
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Postby Renrut » Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:37 pm

He didn't ask about the ergonomics too did he? :lol:
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Postby owelly » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:37 am

The best laid plans and all that........
I splashed a bit of paint around my bits of metal the other day and planned to get the subframe, diff, driveshafts and brakes all assembled this afternoon, then tomorrow, I could 'glass up the big hole under the back of the car and make up the mounts for the new fuel tank. By end of play tomorrow, I wanted the Turd back on its wheels and drivable.
So two hours looking for the long bolts to hold the diff in, then a break as I had to fix SWMBOs A4 and take the kids to the park. As it now gets dark an hour later, I could still be on schedule by morning. Then I spotted a wonky slider pin on one of the calipers. It had been snapped and then brazed back together. So now I need to find a 13.8mm dia slider with a m9 (wtf?) Thread. Or fire up the lathe.
Stay tuned to find out if I've glassed myself to the driveway...
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