KevinR

As hinted at in another thread, I've just acquired a TIG welder to complement my MIG. Not one to purchase cheap tools when a quality item can be obtained for a reasonable price, I've invested in Jasic 200P MINI AC/DC TIG machine. https://www.jasic.co.uk/tig-200p-mini-acdc-inverter-welder The idea being that once I've mastered steel - and I've got a roof section to weld into a GT6 to fill in the hole where a Webasto roof was fitted - I will move on to try some aluminium. Posing the question, how hard can it be to lean to TIG weld - lots of hits on the Internet say one needs to be taught how to TIG weld, and its not something to self learn. I first leaned to gas weld in metalwork at school (a very very long time ago) but haven't done it since (only gas brazing). I consider myself to be reasonably competent at MIG welding - anything from thin car panel work through to 10mm steel sections, so again I asked myself how hard it could be to self learn TIG weld. So here are my first efforts at just getting a weld pool going - no filler rod. It wasn't too difficult, but I did have to sharpen the tungsten between the two bits of metal. I'll play around for another couple of hours without filler rod on various thicknesses of steel and then I'll start adding filler rod into the equation.

Personally I wouldn't use them as they put stresses on the bonnet and wheel arches in directions they were never designed to take.

You lightweight 😈

Chris, Many thanks for the illustrations, they should be a great help to those that are a little nervous about their welding. Most of my MIG welding is on much thicker sections - usually between 3mm and 8mm thick steel, but in general the results I get are similar to yours, except I get much less penetration as the metal is so much thicker and I can only go up to 150 Amps. My next challenge is TIG, just waiting for a Jasic 200P AC/DC Mini Digital to arrive so I can start teaching myself TIG welding - how hard can it be ? (I learned to gas weld about 45 years ago, and the last time I used gas for welding was 35 years ago) There are some very good videos on Youtube, and it doesn't look too difficult. Once I've mastered steel, I'll move on to aluminium and give that a go. Anyone give TIG welding lessons near Cambridge.

Forums are a regular target for spammers, and ours is no exception. The Invision software that runs our forum has until recently been very good at filtering out the spammers and stopping them from registering. Until about 6 months ago, very little admin effort was required to keep one step ahead of the spammers. However, just like the invention of a better idiot to defeat idiot proofing of a design, the spammers have got smarter and have worked out how to get past the Invision anti-spammer registration filters. Over the last few months, I have been controlling spammer registrations with a few extra layers of security. Currently, ALL new registrations, without exceptions, must be manually approved before they can post to the forum - this means that I have to check the list of new registrations every day to authorise the legitimate ones and delete the spammers. At the moment, 95% of the new registrations are spammer registrations - determining if a registration is legitimate or a spammer is fairly straight forward, and there are plenty of lookup tools available on the internet, but each one takes about 5 minutes to deal with. We have also implemented IP address blocking, which prevents forum access from any IP address that is on the blocked list. As the overwhelming majority of the spammers are using IP addresses allocated to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Iran and Brazil, I have blocked almost all the IP addresses allocated to these countries from ever accessing the forum. Spammers also use IP addresses allocated to many other countries, so when these specific IP addresses are identified they are also added to the banned list. Currently I'm seeing a significant number of spammers trying to register from Canada, Singapore, France, Germany and the USA, but as there are also an awful lot of legitimate members in these countries I am much more selective when applying the IP address blocks, but I have on a couple of occasions cast the net slightly too wide - I managed to cut off half of Australia for a few hours a few months ago - ooops, sorry ! From time to time, the IP address allocation mechanism of your Internet Service Provider will allocate a new IP address for your connection. If the new IP address has previously been spotted as being associated with a spammer and blocked, you will find your access blocked as though you were the spammer - the same thing applies if you suddenly use someone else's internet connection or a public internet hotspot that has previously been used to try and spam our forum. One of our more prolific posting members discovered this over Christmas - I wondered why we had several hours of silence, whilst he thought he had been banned and was desperately emailing people to find out what he had done wrong 😈. If you do find your access to the forum is blocked, please email the Club HQ and ask them to email me to unblock the IP address you are currently using - don't worry if you don't know your IP address, the forum logs will let me know what it is.

Having more previous owners increases the probability of one (or more) of them being an absolute bodger. As I have previously said on my signature, never under estimate the “ingenuity” of a previous owner.

I'll second that, but I doubt they will be available in Belgium - screwfix.eu has suspended all shipments from the UK, but there is a screwfix.fr that may be able to supply. You could also try Castorama in France - Erbauer is the "in house" tool brand for Kingfisher PLC, and Kingfisher PLC owns B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama and Brico Depot.

How about the TSSC Club shop - https://shop.tssc.org.uk/ If you are a member of the TSSC, then create yourself an account on the TSSC main website (its not the same as this Forum) and login to get Members Prices.

Chic Doig - Just north of Perth - https://www.chicdoig.co.uk/

It just clamps to the flanges - no holes or mounts required

Don't believe any of the stuff that the people selling them spout unless that admit that you are likely to starve the main bearings of oil and have far too much oil in the top end of the engine (and without valve stem oil seals it will be drawn down the valve guides and burned)

SPAWN OF THE DEVIL - KEEP WELL CLEAR

It grips the A post and B post flanges where the body is spot welded together - the bits that are visible when the door seals are removed.

You could try what Jonathan Binnington did with his GT6 - two servos, one for the front and one for rear, with two master cylinders and a bias bar. Details can be found at http://supersix.50megs.com

True, but only if all wheels are servo’d. The effect of a servo is to amplify the brake pedal pressure so that for any given pressure at a wheel cylinder you don’t have to push as hard on the pedal. where a brake system was designed from scratch to only servo the front brakes, it will cause a massive imbalance in the rear brakes if you now include them in the servo’d circuit without modification, leading to them locking up far too easily as they will now be receiving much more pressure than intended relative to the front. when Triumph only servo’d the from brakes they increased the braking effect at the rear with wider shoes and a different cylinder to compensate for the potential imbalance. if Triumph had instead chosen to servo all four corners, rather than just the fronts, then they could have left the rear brakes the same as they were pre servo.

Must just be you - nothing has been deliberately changed - unless it is a side effect of one of the monthly security patches that get installed.

Click the "X" beside the block in your profile - it conveniently says "disable this block" when you hover over it.

Peter, to make this one work, I think you need to click on the thread title, rather than the time of the last post

Something else you can try is the "Content View Behaviour" setting buried in your profile - direct link https://forum.tssc.org.uk/settings/links/

I get no problems browsing from my Laptop with Chrome, similarly, no problem with Safari on both my iPhones. It might also be worth clearing out all your cookies and the cache and see if that makes a difference.

Correct, blue dot or star turns grey and becomes inactive once the post is read. It’s a star if you have posted in the thread and a dot if you haven’t

No idea what the problem is - its working on my computer. What happens when you click on the blue dot or star ? It should take you to the first post on a thread that you haven't read.

Firstly, have a read of this thread - Then get in touch with @spitfireJAGS and do a swap

The 1300 MKIV airbox and the 1500 Airbox look the same from a distance - they both have the hoses going out the front to pickup the air from in front of the radiator. Despite the boxes looking similar from a distance, they are NOT interchangeable. The 1300 ones have the face that mates to the carburettors drilled for a 1.25" throat carb, whilst the 1500 ones are drilled for a 1.5" throat carb.