I would just like to say

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Evening all here's todays happenings...........

Went to the unit & cleaned up started making a work bench so some chopping & welding :):)
Then phone call from the misses went her 10k walk & lost the house door key AAhhhhggg FFS
Found it after 1/2 n oor :D I only took the barrel out last night to measure it & order another one
as its tight.

Ordered Chinese now where's the rum..
 
kevstar said:
Skill ma man pure skill lol :D:D
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I do love your posts! so I am going to start a movement.
"Daftest things you have done while working on a car"
I was once working on my Mk1 Cortina, doing the tappets.
As you'd imagine, I was turning the crank with a spanner between tappets.
Once i was finished, i left the rocker cover off when i went to start it up, just to listen and see how much better it was.
No problem with that except I forgot i had left the ring spanner on the crankshaft pulley nut. Inertia meant it undid the nut and then let both nut and combination spanner fly, which ploughed a short furrow up the back of the rad and buried itself in the header tank. Rad repair cost more than if i had paid some cnut to give my car a "toon".
And i haven't even got the excuse that it was the first time I had done the job. I had started working on cars at 17 and did this when i was 23!
Some mistakes are at least half unforeseeable, but not this fu cker! boy did i swear at myself! :(:(:(:(:(
Come on others! Fess up!:):)
 
Hippo said:
Pop up garage tent?
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I have one of those for the pending rebuild in the back of the 109, intend to get 8 2x2 slabs to fix it to at the side of the house. Don't help with the cold though and difficult to get lights in that light it up sufficiently. My plan is to wait till the lighter nights and warmer weather and roll up the end while I work, at least this way everything stays dry and I don't have to cover everything up every time i stop.
The workshop door isn't quite high enough to get the 109 in and although it would be big enough there are 4 motorcycles and an MG in there already so this is the backup plan, at least until I get the chassis and bodywork on.
 
BruceB said:
In my defence they do all switch off at 11:30, the damn things flashing keep everyone awake;)
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Not a good pic and some of them are on the sides and back of the building, plus there more last year as some sets were beyond repair this year but this is my drive
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BruceB said:
I have one of those for the pending rebuild in the back of the 109, intend to get 8 2x2 slabs to fix it to at the side of the house. Don't help with the cold though and difficult to get lights in that light it up sufficiently. My plan is to wait till the lighter nights and warmer weather and roll up the end while I work, at least this way everything stays dry and I don't have to cover everything up every time i stop.
The workshop door isn't quite high enough to get the 109 in and although it would be big enough there are 4 motorcycles and an MG in there already so this is the backup plan, at least until I get the chassis and bodywork on.
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We have one of those "pull over" garages, where you drive into a space and then pull a frame over the car with a kinda tarp on it. As you suggest, the main horizontal parts are anchored to slabs which help it stay put in wind. but it isn't mine technically it is Wifey's so when the tarp thing gave up the ghost I was "made" to dismantle it and store it. but the profile from the side is a semicircle, so not brill for working under.
Some peeps put a poly tunnel up, or at least the frame, and then chuck a tarp over it. That is a better idea. but you need the room to be able to do it. and if there is any possibility of wind each leg needs to be set in a 50 kgs bagsworth of concrete plus the watter to make it concrete!
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I do love your posts! so I am going to start a movement.
"Daftest things you have done while working on a car"
I was once working on my Mk1 Cortina, doing the tappets.
As you'd imagine, I was turning the crank with a spanner between tappets.
Once i was finished, i left the rocker cover off when i went to start it up, just to listen and see how much better it was.
No problem with that except I forgot i had left the ring spanner on the crankshaft pulley nut. Inertia meant it undid the nut and then let both nut and combination spanner fly, which ploughed a short furrow up the back of the rad and buried itself in the header tank. Rad repair cost more than if i had paid some cnut to give my car a "toon".
And i haven't even got the excuse that it was the first time I had done the job. I had started working on cars at 17 and did this when i was 23!
Some mistakes are at least half unforeseeable, but not this fu cker! boy did i swear at myself! :(:(:(:(:(
Come on others! Fess up!:):)
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Haha luv it :D
I'll start by going back to when I first started working in a garage just out of school....
I was left in the garage myself & they had prep'd a mrk2 escort for painting so I decided
to have a go, reversing out under the 4 post ramp I scudded the back quarter off the post :eek: haha
Took it back in & filled it with cataloy & flattened & fired some primer over it before they all came
back. I thought it looked great but when they painted it the quarter looked sh!te & they had to rub
it down & repaint it & nope I didnt confess id have got a kicking o_O:D:D
 
DanClarke said:
Was decently priced and has metal gears instead of plastique AND has Tapered-roller bearings on the spindle.
I have been drooling for days and finally decided WTF, I'm only here once and HMG are giving me >£700 in Jan.
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As you say YOLO!
Just wish i could find room for one.
But I am really seriously thinking that, once Brexit is over, one way or another, i am building a barn in France with a two or four post lift.
I have 5 project vehicles awaiting my attention and i am your age more or less. I am getting to the point of saying fu ck the money, get on and do it!
I think Brexit (and covid 19) may prove to have a cathartic effect on quite a few people.;):)
 
kevstar said:
Haha luv it :D
I'll start by going back to when I first started working in a garage just out of school....
I was left in the garage myself & they had prep'd a mrk2 escort for painting so I decided
to have a go, reversing out under the 4 post ramp I scudded the back quarter off the post :eek: haha
Took it back in & filled it with cataloy & flattened & fired some primer over it before they all came
back. I thought it looked great but when they painted it the quarter looked sh!te & they had to rub
it down & repaint it & nope I didnt confess id have got a kicking o_O:D:D
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Hee, hee!
but then you was young!
I was 23 for fecks sake!
Nice try though!
 
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