The Welding Thread for Landy projects

BruceB said:

Thanks for the offer but even you are a 5-6 hours return trip from here. I have had a reply back from them blaming the couriers but having worked out a few ways of getting it delivered to family in Glasgow to pick up next time I visit have just found it comes in one piece on delivery so mother, who is nearly 80, won't be able to put it in the shed or lift it up the stairs for safekeeping.
She can't leave it outside either as she lives in Renfrew and it would vanish overnight no matter how heavy it is!
I've pretty much decided for the budget that this is the best one available but still reluctant to spend 1/3 of its actual just getting it here!

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Have you looked at Landyzone courier page..

It won't fit in a car or small van, its a fairly large lump which needs a pallet truck and probably a lift to move and weighs a good bit..............
I have just found out it comes in one single welded piece and not in boxes to assemble

thats a bit shit

I still think diy fabrication might be the way foreward......

and tests your welds etc

Rich.

After a lot of looking around I ended up just pushing the button on the SGS press anyway, I simply could not find anything as good for the price.
The thing was in one piece and awkward and would have been both difficult and prone to damage getting it shipped any other way. I could have had it collected and delivered as a pallet for £101 inc vat using palletways but then any damage during transit would have been a pain. As it is I hope they come with a 7.5t rather than an Artic which can't get any closer than 100m to the workshop, I don't fancy trying to drag a 160kg pallet up 100m of gravel driveway
Now I have to Monday or so to clear a space in the workshop to accommodate it by moving everything a round a fair amount, but I have a cunning plan!
The only other alternative was the two speed from Automech Services but this is out of stock for a month and isn't quite as featured as the SGS one.
I suppose the only saving grace is that even at the full price of £600 including shipping the press is still head and shoulders about anything comparable at this price, before even adding shipping.
It has put back getting gas for the TIG back a bit though!

BruceB said:

It has put back getting gas for the TIG back a bit though!

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that sucks, you can press & bend things but cannot stick them with the hot-glue

subject of gas, collected my 20L Argon cylinder tonight, couldn't yesterday as overtime happened

probably take it for a test-drive on the weekend (means fitting the plug on the tigset first but

Rich.

My plugs fitted and I have all the consumables, but no gas.
The press took precedence because I bent my little cheapo 6t ebay job doing the bearings on her Peugeot a week or two ago. It was fine for bike bearings but if it is going to do the LR hubs and the gearbox maybe I needed to look at something bigger. This new one certainly satisfies that requirement for anything I am likely to do.
Doing an OU assignment at this very moment that is due tomorrow, expect to be up pretty much all night to get it complete
Be interested to see how you get on now you have the gas but my focus, apart from er indoors wanting a door hung, a new light up and a new rad fitted and plumbed in will be getting the whole workshop rejigged around to get everything better organised and accessible, so no playing with the welder for a few weeks anyway. There would be plenty of room to have tools and work if I didn't have to store everything in there as well!

BruceB said:

would be plenty of room to have tools and work if I didn't have to store everything in there as well!

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Know the feeling.....



Rich.

Zed. said:

Know the feeling.....



Rich.

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I got the blunt end of that last night, moving stuff around to reorganise a spare alternator fell off the shelf onto my foot, currently it is bright purple, painful and looks like the nail is going to fall off
I think that this is the last straw and another shed needs built to put all the motorbikes and pushbikes in to create some room.

BruceB said:

alternator fell off the shelf onto my foot, currently it is bright purple, painful and looks like the nail is going to fall off

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didn't know alternators had nails

as to storage, I've got a pair of 3door 200tdi disco's as well as an old caravan, 2 sheds, my workshop & garage...

and garden full.... (with some stuff in the house)

building in the summer

Rich.

I was trying to avoid yet another shed but it looks like needs must.
The workshop currently has 4 motorbikes in it, along with 1.5 MG Midgets, two pushbikes, most of the mechanical parts of my Landy and all the benches and tools. Its a tad crowded.
I need to build a shed to put the bicycles and three of the bikes in to get some room, the fourth stay on the bike lift.

BruceB said:

I need to build a shed to put the bicycles and three of the bikes in to get some room, the fourth stay on the bike lift.

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we keep the bike (Daytona 600) in the house

Rich.

Zed. said:

we keep the bike (Daytona 600) in the house

Rich.

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I thought my wife was fairly understanding but even she wouldn't let me bring a bike into the house. Although maybe when I am too old to ride it the Spitfire may be cleaned up and brought into the house as a non functioning ornament, if she lets me.

Press came today and its a hefty bit of kit, quite pleased with it although I just used it to straighten the parts that bent on the little 6 tonner so far. When I finally fix where it going I'll bolt it down but its OK where it is for now.

BruceB said:

the Spitfire may be cleaned up and brought into the house as a non functioning ornament, if she lets me.

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Bloody Hell you must have a big living room but will the wings fit through the door?...lol..

Shippers said:

Bloody Hell you must have a big living room but will the wings fit through the door?...lol..

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Brill.

Rich.

Shippers said:

Bloody Hell you must have a big living room but will the wings fit through the door?...lol..

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Its a Mk2 as well so an early rare one

Just last year was beach front in December near Vilamoura in the Algarve...saw 2 planes low over the water weaving about...thought theyr'e in trouble...next minute they were flying past all the old buffties looked like they were in shock...the planes were either spits or hurics...the Portugese did have both...the sound wonderfull and the view at that level!!...but no record in papers or internet to be found of why they were there...

You can't mistake the sound of a Merlin.

BruceB said:

You can't mistake the sound of a Merlin.

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1m9s

Rich

Thought I'd share a little welding project for my disco2. Doing a poor man's suspension lift, so I got some 6mm discs laser cut out at work then welded them to the underside of the spring seats. Just have to drill the holes out

Should give it about 35 - 40mm lift. Just got the other 3 to do now.