1965 Series 2a Station Wagon in Holland

It's taken me a couple of weeks but I've managed to catch up on months of your progress in this thread! I am only afforded short drippings of time by she who thinks she's the boss and most of the time I'm looking after our little bundle of terror joy.

You are making good progress and doing good work, keep doing this things!

LR Fasteners has a hand brake button listed for £10:

http://www.landrover-parts.net/proddetail.php?prod=S1-242108

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The recommendation is to use unstirred Primocon dabbed on to the surface to fake the effect of a galvanised surface.

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Is it just me or does it look like there's writings on the bumper?

Anyway, regarding getting an galvanizing effect.... Look up "rag rolling paint technique":

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=r...ved=0ahUKEwiI147FjarPAhVKJsAKHY-zBuMQ_AUICCgD

Stretch said:

Air cleaner =>

I just derusted one part of it today to try and get the paint correct.

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Painted it with Hammerite silver grey (hammered finish)

Not totally dreadful - not totally correct

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I'm using the paint on the underside of the pot as a comparison as I assume this is the best preserved bit.

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The Hammerite looks too modern to me. It is missing a hint of blue that the original seems to have.

I'm going to keep on looking for an alternative.

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Apparently it is possible to mix Hammerite paints of the same "generation". You could try a little drop of Hammerite blue in with the silver, it might give you the correct shade of paint at least. I remember reading some where (also) on a model building forum about a guy who has a friend or relative or something who's job is to create old style looking objects for TV shows and such. It made for brilliant reading and a lot of the techniques could be applied in a situation such as this. I was sure I had bookmarked it but it must have been on an older computer, it was many years ago.

Dan_Trials said:

It's taken me a couple of weeks but I've managed to catch up on months of your progress in this thread! I am only afforded short drippings of time by she who thinks she's the boss and most of the time I'm looking after our little bundle of terror joy.

You are making good progress and doing good work, keep doing this things!

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Enjoy the children whilst they are young - best (and hardest) years of my life were spent looking after my twin daughters and my son who is almost three years older

Dan_Trials said:

LR Fasteners has a hand brake button listed for £10:

http://www.landrover-parts.net/proddetail.php?prod=S1-242108

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Great find

Dan_Trials said:

Is it just me or does it look like there's writings on the bumper?

Anyway, regarding getting an galvanizing effect.... Look up "rag rolling paint technique":

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=r...ved=0ahUKEwiI147FjarPAhVKJsAKHY-zBuMQ_AUICCgD

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Yep - I might revisit this later on in the project (rear corners need to be sorted at the very least)

Dan_Trials said:

Apparently it is possible to mix Hammerite paints of the same "generation". You could try a little drop of Hammerite blue in with the silver, it might give you the correct shade of paint at least. I remember reading some where (also) on a model building forum about a guy who has a friend or relative or something who's job is to create old style looking objects for TV shows and such. It made for brilliant reading and a lot of the techniques could be applied in a situation such as this. I was sure I had bookmarked it but it must have been on an older computer, it was many years ago.

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I'm sure you're correct about the mixing. Not something I'm especially keen on trying though. Whilst I do have the darker and lighter greys in stock, I'm going to have to get desperate for that to happen.

I'm currently following leads for other brands - apparently some of the cheaper brands sold in discount shops have an older look to them. They are at least sold at a discount price so I'm buying and trying...

...also sorting out my spray guns so I can break away from the limitations of spray cans.

Stretch said:

Enjoy the children whilst they are young - best (and hardest) years of my life were spent looking after my twin daughters and my son who is almost three years older



Great find



Yep - I might revisit this later on in the project (rear corners need to be sorted at the very least)



I'm sure you're correct about the mixing. Not something I'm especially keen on trying though. Whilst I do have the darker and lighter greys in stock, I'm going to have to get desperate for that to happen.

I'm currently following leads for other brands - apparently some of the cheaper brands sold in discount shops have an older look to them. They are at least sold at a discount price so I'm buying and trying...

...also sorting out my spray guns so I can break away from the limitations of spray cans.

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Oh yes I am very much enjoying these times, I try to include him in as many garage related activities as possible but as is often the case there is usually a lot of grinding and welding to do and the use of chemicals so we spend a lot of our time driving about or playing in the house if the weather is not suitable to play outside. I would love to build him one of these toylanders but I feel I just won't get the time, he would probably have a full driving license by the time I'm finished it!

Dan_Trials said:

Oh yes I am very much enjoying these times, I try to include him in as many garage related activities as possible but as is often the case there is usually a lot of grinding and welding to do and the use of chemicals so we spend a lot of our time driving about or playing in the house if the weather is not suitable to play outside. I would love to build him one of these toylanders but I feel I just won't get the time, he would probably have a full driving license by the time I'm finished it!

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Well don't give up the dreams - I built my lot an effing big castle with a draw bridge on the driveway (neighbours weren't so impressed - luckily it was built to repel such people...)

Stretch said:

Well don't give up the dreams - I built my lot an effing big castle with a draw bridge on the driveway (neighbours weren't so impressed - luckily it was built to repel such people...)

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Haha, now that would be cool!

[QU"Stretch, post: 3827333, member: 128695"]Thanks for the confirmation - so far I've only been able to find series 2 and series 3 Land Rover differentials and axle cases with paint on the insides (as well as the outsides). I reckon the steel castings need a bit of sealing help.

For cleaning the rust and muck out of my front axle I have a cunning plan - saying that you've been working on yours makes me wonder what you did though...[/QUOTE]
My cleaning technique is very simple. Plenty of degreaser and loads rags. I have been using old towels and ramming them through the casing taking the gunge with them. Then do it all again.

LincolnSteve said:

My cleaning technique is very simple. Plenty of degreaser and loads rags. I have been using old towels and ramming them through the casing taking the gunge with them. Then do it all again.

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Ah yes - of course you haven't got a rust issue as well...

...I was hoping to find an angle grinder brush cup with an M14 thread so I could whazz that thing up and down inside the axle. Problem is I can only find 65mm diameter cups and the diameter of the inside of the axle tubes is about 2 inches - so the angle grinder cups are a bit too big.

I've ended up buying an extension for speed bores that might be long enough to get a drill wire brush attachment far enough along.

Flipping 'eck - it has been all "I'm waiting for this to finish off that" and "I can't do that 'cos I've just run out of that" recently - blinking frustrating.

Some progress was made by someone else though.

I got some chaps in the same warehouse as me to remove the tyres from the wheels. I had ten in all to be done. All of the tyres are totally and utterly buggered so they had to come off.

They had a really rough time removing the tyres from the wheels - their machine nearly died. I'm paying extra beer for the job.

In Holland the cost of chucking tyres is pretty horrific so I was lucky enough to gift three of them to another bloke in the warehouse who wanted to hang them off the side of his boat to "dissuade them posh ****ers in plastic boats from mooring next to his" - 7 left to find a new home.





As you can see the wheels are also totally and utterly buggered too. (Happy days)

I'm currently researching tubed and non tubed wheel and tyre combinations.

Stick a lid on the remaining seven put them in a corner somewhere and call them a compost bin

Jam1 said:

Stick a lid on the remaining seven put them in a corner somewhere and call them a compost bin

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There are some faux-hippies up the road from me who were building mud huts out of old car tyres but even they don't want them any more.

I'm gonna do some adverts for "child's swing with out a rope" as well as "boat buffers" and now "plant and compost holders" and see if I can get rid of a few more.

Failing that the local tip will take four of them for free if I show my council pass but I have to get them there...

I'm probably gonna sound like an old fart again - but most "paint strippers" these days really ought to be done under trade descriptions. In the UK Nitromors used to be the stuff that would eventually eat through most things but these days even that stuff is total ham shank. I didn't used to be like that!

I remember when paint stripper WAS paint stripper and it actually attempted to do what it says it does on the tin.

I also remember when cheese tasted like cheese - all this was fields - when children weren't so bloody precocious - and - when you fried bacon in a pan it didn't fill up with water!

Anyway - I digress - I've found some "paint stripper" that not only makes your eyes water but it actually makes paint wrinkle and (almost) come off.

It is even for sale to normal people - not restricted to use by (so called) professionals

'Er it is =>



It isn't perfect like "how steak used to taste" but it most certainly does need to be treated with respect. It does do something and negates the need to spend hours and hours with an orbital sander =>



10 minutes on the underside - it started to wipe off





Top side took a bit longer but mostly came off



Stripping other parts - this was cream to start off with (had been badly applied so came off with no trouble)



The under original petrol blue is taking a bit longer



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So any way - there you go paint stripper that more or less does what it says it will do - and is available for sale to normal people...

...unfortunately it is very very very expensive...

(For those of you outside of Europe:- I don't know exactly why it has turned out this way here - could be environmental issues or perhaps anti-terrorism measures that have enforced the sale of non real paint stripper - stuff that in fact ought to be called "a 'ucking waste of your time money and effort - don't bother buying me"!)

We used something called kling strip to remove paint from old house doors. That stuff really works but isn't quick if you want to do a proper job, stings like **** if you get it on your skin too!

this stuff http://www.stripperspaintremovers.com/products.htm not sure how it works on car paint but it shifted all the paint varnish etc we had in the house.

LordOWar said:

We used something called kling strip to remove paint from old house doors. That stuff really works but isn't quick if you want to do a proper job, stings like **** if you get it on your skin too!

this stuff http://www.stripperspaintremovers.com/products.htm not sure how it works on car paint but it shifted all the paint varnish etc we had in the house.

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Well I haven't seen that one before. If I'm in the UK I might get a tub as it is much cheaper than this POR strip stuff. A 5kg tub for about 14 quid is well worth a try.

Thanks for the tip.

EDIT - oh yes - new avatar too! What's that all about?

It's from Deadpool, the taxi driver in the film has it as Deadpool's icon on his phone. Funny film but quite violent.

LordOWar said:

It's from Deadpool, the taxi driver in the film has it as Deadpool's icon on his phone. Funny film but quite violent.

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Well thanks for another recommendation - if it makes it onto the box I might stay up for it!

Yuk corrosion =>

Doesn't look too dreadful on the outer surface...



...but on the inside...



I think I'm going to have to replace this bit.

(Flipping back to really expensive stuff)

Well I paid through the nose for this



It isn't 100% complete - I need to sort through it to find out which parts (probably a spanner or two) are missing

I don't know about you but I wouldn't fancy trying to remove land rover tyres with one of these tyre levers!