What You Up To

Lisa's Golf has all the coil overs fitted just got to get them adjusted up, then remove the near side drive shaft which I am not looking forward to. Junkyard 66 still got lots of welding to do on that one and my van well still waiting for Just to come up . . . so lots on

Me and kev have just purchased a new welder so bring Lisas down and we can have a go at the welding for you.

What am i doing well am absolutely flat out with work at the mo inbetween that got the beige bitch nose job and loads of little jobs on bug and wedge to do that i gotta find time for. Also theres a sweet 64 panel in the workshop i cant wait to be working on again. Oh hang on you know about that one haha!

P.s wheres the pictures of the golf with the coilovers and rims on im dying too see!

Liam wrote:P.s wheres the pictures of the golf with the coilovers and rims on im dying too see!

Which welder did you buy . . . will try and get a pic at the weekend. The wheels btw are black and silver not chrome as I first thought still look good though.

Sealey supermig 150. Was gonba go for a sealey supermig 180 but they were £400 as opposed to under £250 for the 150. 150 amps should be more than enough for what we need.

Liam wrote:Sealey supermig 150. Was gonba go for a sealey supermig 180 but they were £400 as opposed to under £250 for the 150. 150 amps should be more than enough for what we need.

Cool, the other problem you may have had is the plug amperage, I know some welders above 150 wont work on a 13 amp plug seems the trick is to stick 15 amp fuse wire in them . . .

Have seen some 200 amp ones on a three pin plug but dont think the duty cycle would be very good on them! They would be fine turned down but whats the point in paying lots of money for a big expensive welder that we have to turn down!
Just had an email saying its been despatched cant wait to try it out!

Look whats arrived! Off down the workshop for a play!

Looks the job, did i hear the word "Tubbing" David

Got down there and set it up and theres no bloody gas left! Soooo anoying!
Yes Dave tubbing will be going ahead but it needs mending first!

No gas already how come could of used it already . . . welder looks snazzy . . .

No idea dude might have been left on by accident somewhen. Getting some more today. Tried it yesterday with no gas and it wasnt bad considering! Should be brilliant with gas!

Got gas and tried the welder out today and shes a beaut!



Before you lot start slaggin my weding its kevs! Bloody good for a first timer bloody good!

Cool well done Kev . . . I want a go

Been busy doin daily driver heater channel bottoms! Very scary when the floor falls out!

Workshop at maximum capacity!



Old channel bottom and new one fitted in





Still got to weld it on and make some other plates but hopefully more progress tomorrow! Bit scary cutting up the daily!

Good on ya, amazing how quick that has rusted out . . . will see if I can get some welding wire before the weekend wouldn't mind doing some more on the van Saturday too.

You forgot the before shot

Got to be done mate hold your breath and dive on in! Got a small reel of wire for now will be getting a bigger one soon!
Kev i dont have a before shot did you take one?
Also the other night we did some overdue work on the beige bitch kev did you take any pics of that?

Stupid slow internet didnt realise that pic was there till after posting haha! Nice one kev!

Got this one wiv the wings we were surprised how well it all lined up

Liam I had to put the new reel I bought in, that small one is what was causing the feed problems it was getting caught on one side of the reel . . . I couldn't move the Corrado on my own too bloody heavy had to do it outside but no one complained . . . Managed to get a lot more of the welding done today not too pretty but its done only the battery tray to do now really.

Liam the beige bitch is looking good. Kev must be stoked. When you going to get painting? That workshop is looking pretty busy prob no room left for putting decks Nice welder BTW

Helen and I had a busy old club day - saw a few of you too

Took broken Colemann poles to Keith and Sara, looks like he will be able to do soemthing to give us a sapare pole set. Hes doing amaging / time cinsuming work on club roofracks

Picked up our revitalised leisure battery from on and linda - thanks for the charge from the industrial charger. Must get it back in ready for auto sparky

Dropped in on Daz, just to say hi really and catch up on Stonor prep

Called on Liam on the way home to drop off propsfor our Stonor Hawaiian club display theme.

Out for a bit of R&R today in V, just for a run and a picnic really

See you all soon
Carl

Ms Beige is looking good again Kev

Popped round Keiths yesterday to have a look at the full lengh old skool rack he is fabricating for us, soon be ready for powder coating.
Stuck the steels back on, abit of a job pushing and pulling bus round the garage to get access.
Erna is starting to clean the inside and filling up with god knows what.
Thats it.


David

Since returning from Vic farm Alex has put a new Alternator conversion kit in. He has also fitted a gearbox oil seal as it was leeking, new rocker covers and seals. Fitted all new innertubes to tyres as we had a puncture. So as you can see he has been a busy little beaver.