PeterH
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5 hours ago, mbs2013 said:
but I'm still looking for a valance.
I have to confess I used a glass fibre one - Honeybourne Mouldings. Looks right and fitted well. I reasoned that it might last longer than a steel one and was considerably less money.
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Live feed from Goodwood SpeedWeek. Could waste a lot of time this week end !
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15 minutes ago, Badwolf said:
PeterH - That is just what I was thinking about for mine (if I ever get it finished). Do you have a link for that particular model. I was thinking about an old fashioned laundry rack, but the fittings on those are very poor.
The link for the canoe storage lift
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This is the one I'm looking at (£26.00)
- Hooks are designed with a rubber coating to protect from scratches
- Easy to install and easy to use
- ROBUST ENGINEERING - New improved STRAPS eliminate the fragile hooks that plague cheaper hoists, and allow you to lift heavy products, up to 125lb. Capacity. This is the kayak hoist that all the other are trying to copy.
- For Ceilings up to 12ft.
- Safe locking mechanism prevents accidental release
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I'll dig my hartop out and weigh it. It also needs a bit of work i.e. new headlining. If the canoe device is suitable I'll install it above the car so the top can be lowered straight down. I will have to move a strip light that's on the ceiling, but nothing is ever straight forward.
The hard top is against the back wall with a sawbench and router table in front plus sundry other bits of junk. Nice job if we get locked down again !
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Amazon sell a system for suspending canoes, 125 lb capacity. (56.6 kg) I would think the hardtop is a bit less than that - 2 person easy lift.
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Does anyone know how heavy a Spitfire Mk3 Triumph metal hardtop is? Mine is somewhat buried at the back of the garage and I've been wondering about suspending it from the garage ceiling. I might actually get round to fitting it if it was more accessible.
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My Christmas present list now includes one for the Mini !
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I know this goes back a while, but I've finally got round to fitting the https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FITS-TRIUMPH-HERALD-VITESSE-black-stitch-LEATHER-HANDBRAKE-GAITER/351002132013
Needed inspiration to to take seats and carpet out and it was a wet day.
Very pleased with the result. Thanks Colin for the link. I've let the supplier know they ought to add Mk1, 2 and 3 Spitfire to their listing.
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I like the actual Radio Paradise. They play some good music from all genre (todays trendy word). Internet only but free.
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1 hour ago, jmh said:
Is this usable?
Thanks that's great.
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10 hours ago, Colin Lindsay said:
That one in my photo is a GT6+ / GT6 Mk3 radio plate, I assumed it was the same as the late 1960s Mk3 - my fault; however you can buy modern Spitfire Mk3 versions nowadays as well:
That looks more like what I expected, though I'd not seen the e-bay listing before. Still my friend with his new printer is looking for things to do with it and will only charge me material + beer!
Any chance of some overall dimensions ? I can scale the rest.
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Thanks Colin. I hadn't realised it had mesh in it. I thought it was solid. Might be a problem to 3D print.
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Could someone give me a good photo with some basic dimensions of the radio blanking plate 613595 as fitted to Mk3 Spitfire. Canley say Mk 1 and 2 as well.
I don't want to fit a radio and I don't have a blanking plate so I've just got a big hole in the support.
Someone I know has offered to 3D print me one if I can give him a drawing.
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Off side is the worst. Near side is not brilliant but no where near as bad. I'm very tempted to try cutting the sill, but looking at it I'd have to free up the bottom of the B post and that looks to need cutting the floor and what would happen round the rear wing. On second thoughts I'll leave alone.
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Guess what. Mine is the same. I originally wondered if the door was bent after reskinning but having read the above I'm sure that its the sill / b post alignment.
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See the post
Spitfire Mk3 Boot
It got onto the subject of these brackets
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When I rebuilt the Spitfire I used silicone from the word go. On its first MOT the tester did ask what the fluid was (transparent reservoir) as he had never seen that colour before. Since then I've attached the lable that comes with the fluid saying that it is silicone.
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Following an earlier topic about problems with vacuum bleed kits, I bought a Vizibleed one man bleed aid - £4.99 from Halford and can report that it works well. You can easily do it on your own
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As well as the Spitfire I have a 1979 Mini (alas not a Cooper). I've recently been tidying it up, new headlining, cleaned seats, carpets etc.
Just when you think you're getting somewhere.
I'm about to put the carpets back in when I notice an oily patch on the recently painted floor. Turns out its hydaulic fluid dripping down the clutch pedal. Oh pooh sticks ! !
If anyone knows Mini's they will know how easy it isn't to take the master cylinder out - or rather refitting the clevis pin joining it to the pedal.
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I use the method described by JohnD. You only need a pump type oil can a length of suitable diameter plastic pipe and an oid grease nipple with no ball or spring. It doesn't take much pressure to fill the trunion with oil.
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Where did you get the headlining? Is it a taylored one with sleeves for the rails?
I'd like to resurect my hardtop one day and it certainly needs a new headlining.
Funilly enough I've just done the one on my Mini. If its a vinyl one a hot air gun is a big help to get it to stretch, and you need clamps, clamps and more clamps. I used bulldog clips. Atleast with the Spitfire you don't have a 'B' post with a door opening one side and a window the other,
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Mine are underneath the side ones, they follow the angle of the boot floor.
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3 hours ago, Colin Lindsay said:
Following the advice of members here on the forum I recently bought a tube of Mintex Cera Tec and have tried that on both shoes and pads. My local Autofactors has it for around £4 so don't pay too much for it - there are forty prices online and some quite inflated ones.
I missed that post.
The reason I asked is my tub of PH grease will last me for as long as ever I'll want, and I wondered if I should continue with it or ditch it in favour of something else.
1970 Spitfire Mk3
in My Triumph Restoration Project
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I did have to make some brackets to pick up on the mountings. 'Pop' riveted them to the glass fibre.