ahebron
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One tip I will give you is earths earths and earths.
Make sure you give as much as you can a decent earth/neutral return wire.
I cant recall the wiring on the Spitfires but my Vitesse relies heavily on the body as a return path and with older cars and restored cars these paths can be compromised. Corrosion on older cars and paint and insulation on restored cars.
It doesn't take much to run a nice black neutral cable to the various electrical items on our cars.
I also add earth points to the front side lights as they rely on the bonnet for a return path.-
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I used an undercoat primer of BIN 123 as it adheres to anything then topcoat with a gloss black.
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I used the juice of 12 lemons off our tree and an equal amount of warm water to clean some BMW motorbike wheels that proprietary cleaner wouldnt touch. It also removed the rust from the weights
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I recently purchased a 545Nm battery rattle gun. I have yet to use it but am keen to damage some nuts with it.
Brand is Nordic which is apparently made on the Makita line and appears to be NZ only.
https://www.topmaq.co.nz/18v-li-ion-brushless-impact-wrench-600nm-skin-only-poba2330
I convinced a mechanic mate to buy one and his gets used all the time.
I have the 12 volt 'dremel', ratchet spanner, drill and impact driver and use them all for work and car. -
The only advice I give on buying tools is if I need it once then I buy it.
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You are a heck of a lot closer than I am🙃
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My apologies if this is a repost.
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They are the devils crimp most often incorrectly fitted by ham fisted operators both amateur and professional on car voltage and scarily mains voltage.
The only way to correctly fit them is to use the ratchet type crimper as posted above.
As an electrician I have a set of these but my preference is not to use this type of crimp.
I prefer the uninsulated types as mentioned in this thread and either sleeve with the correct sleeves or heatshrink.
For these crimps I also use a ratchet type crimper that crimps both parts of the connector at the same time.
Proper preparation is the key.Sorry to get sour on these crimps but I find them failing far too often due to incorrect crimping or preparation
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Still got my first one.
1965 Vitesse 6, when I was 18 I took it off the road to replace the chassis and told my mum it would be 6 weeks. I am 59 and it still isnt finished. But is still only 6 weeks away from being done.
Then I bought the Mk2 Vitesse Convertible which was the first Vitesse I looked at buying but the seller kept upping the price. It was a goer back then but in need of a major rebuild when I bought it and still is.
And here is a photo of completed Vitesse that gets driven by its owner who most of you should recognise
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If you find a source of replacement rear lever damper shock mounts I would be interested.
I have a build up a replacement chassis for my Mk2 from a 13/60 one.
Yes I know I can change to telescopic but I want the chassis correct. -
Cracked leaf?
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When Rhyna owned a MX5 it needed a replacement right front side light.
I found a 2nd hand one on line and ordered it.
When it arrived it was the left side one.
I contacted the seller and they said it was right side looking at front of the car🙃 -
I would have thought the VW Beetle roof would be a lot more curved than a Triumph one.
I have a fabric sunroof for a Viva and another from an A35. I would think the A35 one would like the Beetle one be too curved. -
When I was doing my time back in the early 1980s we had one chap whose job was looking after the battery packs in the substations. There were lead acid individual cells (2 volts?) consisting of glass battery housings in individual wooden boxes supplying 110 volts DC to power the control circuits in the zone substations. I recall many a day working in these buildings standing on the top of the switch truck housings and getting a tingle across my legs as I was leaning into the exposed connectors of the 110 volt DC. It did seem a very old fashioned system back then but I suppose if it worked then why change.
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That will be an "L" in the back window for "Loving it"
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On 15/12/2023 at 03:52, JohnD said:
It supposed to that, Pete!
Find a sky diver video online. Lots of them wear cameras that show a view apparently from two metres above their head. No idea how, but it's "routine"!
They use a 360 camera on a pole. The software in the camera eliminates the pole as it knows what it looks like and where it is in relation to the camera. Yopu can pan tilt and zoom with these cameras in the software and go from 360 to normal view. Also used a lot on motorbike videos. I have one I use at work for referencing locations before going to work in them
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One tip I was given when I had a similar experience on my Vitesse when I noticed the paint flaking off underneath was after I a wire wheeled it back to bare metal give a good going over with handheld 80 grit. Theory being the wire wheel ends up polishing the metal and the hand held 80 grit roughs it up for the paint to adhere too.
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Peter my Dad here in NZ gets sent this magazine.
He looks forward to every issue.Adrian
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I once worked with a Morris dancer he drove a Citreon GS Estate.
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Are there buttons between the bent round brackets?
When I did the buttons on the rear leaf of my Vitesse 6 I only did buttons that where accessed by unbolting the brackets, I never touched the bent around ones and wouldnt. -
10 hours ago, Steve P said:
Sacrilege.
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Why?
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Youtube has an amazing amount of content on MIG welders that can watch and learn from.
My personal favourite ishttps://www.youtube.com/@MakeItKustom
But as everyone has said already practice practice and more practice.
And spend the money to buy a bloody good welding helmet, if you cannot see what you are welding or your welds then you dont have any chance of doing a half decent job. That was my best investment in my welding hobby.
Then buy a TIG welder and start all over again.
Funnily enough the one welding I could never accomplish was arc welding.
As a kid at college I loved gas welding and brazing.-
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I was recently put on to a great weather app for my phone called Zoom Earth by a friend who was sailing a yacht down from McKay to Brisbane, they used it to check on weather as they made their way down the coast
Using the app to look at Australia I see bush fires all over Queensland and heavy rain but never in the same place, often the gap is so small you could see one from the other.
The flora and fauna of Australia are not to be taken trivially.
Suitable glue for estate side window rubbers?
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Superglue?
Do you have some extra to experiment with?