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I bought a cheap carbide tipped T slot cutter from AliExpress to do my tool holders ( hardened). Very impressed with it, a lot better results than with a dremmel.
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3layers of 9mm ply. Embedded some studded plates between two of the layers for the alu legs. There's a metal frame on the underside that follows the contours, just to stiffen.
The paint, I took inspiration from Turner's 'Fighting Temeraire'. In true Morecambe and Wise style, It's all the right colours though not necessarily in the right order.
A relatively shallow pour of resin that I foolishly did during the cold spell cured with some crevices (0.2mm deep) so sanded them out and up to 800 grit.
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Follow up on this, today I replaced the two front upper wishbones.
First one took over a week but that included making the tools and getting the arms delivered.
I bought them from Alfashop as they were a good price and should be reasonable quality (SKF with 2 year warranty.) However that no longer deliver to NI, yet another Brexit benefit, so I had them delivered to a site in England and had one of the lads take them home with them as hand baggage.
I thought it would be a great idea to use a cap head bolt to allow the bolt head to fit between the spring coils next time, but I couldn't tighten the bolt on one side without slacking the whole strut.
So I had to reverted to the original Torx head bolts and used the tool I made to spread the coil spring.
Second one took 35 minutes. It would have been quicker if I had a ratcheting torque spanner but still fine.
Slacken the bolts.
Spread the coil spring
And fit the wishbone.
For £50 and half an hour a side I can live with it, if they last two years.
Still, it's a bit pants for a replacement part.
I've got to admit, I don't remember removing the shock being too much of a problem on mine. I was changing the springs to Eibach (cheaper to buy a set of four than two rear ones for my Q4) so they had to come out anyway. The rear ones though - half the rear of the car coming apart to get 'em out, although I was changing the handbrake cable too, which meant removing the other half of the rear of the car.
I'd be terrified of my fingers being close to that spring with that tool wedged in though
I'd be terrified of my fingers being close to that spring with that tool wedged in though
A "Heath Robinson" inspired stand for the newly acquired Chinese diesel heater.
Not the most elegant of constructions but it does the job, the next task being to sort out some lightweight ducting to get rid of the exhaust fumes. Overall I'm very impressed with the heat output, admittedly it sounds like a Rolls Royce RB-211 when it's wound up full but I can live with that. In fact I'm so impressed with it I'm looking at buying another to mount permanently under the passenger seat of the van as part of its camper conversion.
Not the most elegant of constructions but it does the job, the next task being to sort out some lightweight ducting to get rid of the exhaust fumes. Overall I'm very impressed with the heat output, admittedly it sounds like a Rolls Royce RB-211 when it's wound up full but I can live with that. In fact I'm so impressed with it I'm looking at buying another to mount permanently under the passenger seat of the van as part of its camper conversion.
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Scared to death an idiot who tried to scare me
Just parked next to a door exactly 1 meter off the door
There was another car in front of the door.
He said that if I wanted no damages to my car I should have left space...
I've took off my breaker bar off the car and very gentle said.
If you have to do something to the other car be aware that my car is next to it and it's like a daughter for me pay attention to it .
I'm very disgusted about things are going on in my neighborhood lately.
Every week happens something, what used to be a peaceful neighborhood is becoming a ghetto.
Addicteds breaking windows hitting the drivers, people fighting in front of home, graffiti on the walls
Last week a girl has been beaten up by an addicted who smashed her car window and she dragged him for several hundreds of meters hanging from car.
I don't feel safe anymore even at home.
We(everyone In the neighborhood) used to leave the houses doors opened till night.
And now we are living almost incarcerated at home .
Disgusted
Just parked next to a door exactly 1 meter off the door
There was another car in front of the door.
He said that if I wanted no damages to my car I should have left space...
I've took off my breaker bar off the car and very gentle said.
If you have to do something to the other car be aware that my car is next to it and it's like a daughter for me pay attention to it .
I'm very disgusted about things are going on in my neighborhood lately.
Every week happens something, what used to be a peaceful neighborhood is becoming a ghetto.
Addicteds breaking windows hitting the drivers, people fighting in front of home, graffiti on the walls
Last week a girl has been beaten up by an addicted who smashed her car window and she dragged him for several hundreds of meters hanging from car.
I don't feel safe anymore even at home.
We(everyone In the neighborhood) used to leave the houses doors opened till night.
And now we are living almost incarcerated at home .
Disgusted
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Made some steering joints today.
Now that I am making replaceable Acetal inserts it means I don't have to use bronze for the housings. Stainless however brought up a problem as doing the pockets 18mm deep with a 4mm cutter would be a pain so I redesigned them to be two halves at 12mm each so the pocket in each only needs to be 9mm.
Previous version in bronze, there was a 2mm thick lid that screwed on to keep the ball end captive.
New version in stainless with acetal inserts.
Now that I am making replaceable Acetal inserts it means I don't have to use bronze for the housings. Stainless however brought up a problem as doing the pockets 18mm deep with a 4mm cutter would be a pain so I redesigned them to be two halves at 12mm each so the pocket in each only needs to be 9mm.
Previous version in bronze, there was a 2mm thick lid that screwed on to keep the ball end captive.
New version in stainless with acetal inserts.
