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Re: The Humph
By: Lightweight Nat Date: August 8, 2013, 2:04 pm
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This is megaly awesome, a very welcome sight to see!! Those
drums look great cleaned up and wiped over with an oily rag!!
Glad to see my diligent OCD king of faffing paid off with the
drum screws etc, although hopefully it wasn't the cause of said
leakages ;D :rolleye0012:
Keep it up mate!
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Re: The Humph
By: Dave Date: August 9, 2013, 12:34 pm
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[quote author=Joskin link=topic=6234.msg69849#msg69849
date=1375783236]
Just after Dave said "there's no point having a stereo in a
leafer cause you can't hear em" !!! .......he he hee , crank it
up to 11 >rock<
[/quote]
Bark at the Moon! >rock<
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Re: The Humph
By: Joskin Date: August 18, 2013, 5:05 pm
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The absence of rain today at Joskin towers saw further progress
on Humph, I had hoped to have had him in for test on saturday
alas the weather and me being knackered saw little progress last
week.....
There were 3 sizable areas of rot, 2 of which have patches right
up to them, first job today was clean up and chase back to
something like decent metal which as usual goes far further than
you think it will. The third is along the bottom edge of the
main chassis rails, a stretch of about 16 inches and like a
pepper pot for more or less the full width. I managed to get all
3 chased out and the edges cleaned up, I was going to stitch the
repair patches on with my little arc plant but I've not used it
since before winter and I'd forgotten and left the rods with it
in the garage.... D'oh they've got damp at some point and its
buggered them :( Anyrate, there's plenty more cleaning up and
painting to do so I decided to crack on with that and once
everything else is done I'll run it down to the big shed and
stitch the patches on with the mig. As of this evening the
chassis is cleaned and painted from the very front to just in
front of the rear axle :smilewide: all being well a final push
tommorow after work will see it done right to the back !
I used Ronseal no rust smooth black , for no other reason than I
had a tin of it in the garage and just wanted something/anything
to spruce it up for this (which will probably be the last before
Humph gets his new chassis) year, I have to say tho it goes on
really really well, covers a treat and if you believe the blurb
will hold back natures calling to the metal for 6 yrs ??? not
sure I'm full of confidence about that but it does seem like
good gear and I'd definately reccomend it for chassis.
Providing tommorow evening goes ok, that'll leave; service the
props, clean up and adjust rear brakes, sort out the drivers
side screen wash, one-shot in each of the swivels, and finally
the 3 rust patches...... thursday for test with a bit of luck
:thumbs:
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Re: The Humph
By: Lurch Date: August 19, 2013, 6:42 am
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Good luck with the test, thursday is a tight deadline :)
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Re: The Humph
By: drumlisden Date: August 19, 2013, 5:47 pm
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Busy couple of days ahead. Hope it goes according to the plan
:thumbs:
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Re: The Humph
By: Drew Date: August 19, 2013, 10:14 pm
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[quote="Lurch"]Good luck with the test, thursday is a tight
deadline [/quote]
But not as tight as Wednesday :smile1
GR8 XTRM WRK, JSKN. :thumbs:
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Re: The Humph
By: Joskin Date: August 20, 2013, 4:46 pm
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Plodding along with aplomb once again this eve ;D
More chassis cleaned up, so hoping it doesn't rain this
evening...... hooter wombled off the pile of spares that is the
big shed, both screen washers working right up to the point
where they disappear behind the dash-but not after that ! Parts
picked up from Rimmers and test booked for thursday afternoon !!
Plus (and this is no small feat in itself!) the vast majority of
the crap that has been "stored" in the back has been rehomed
just inside the door of the garage :thumbs:
On the downside, having moved him up and down the drive, the
brakes are shockingly shit ??? but I have yet to clean up the
rears so hoping the fault lies there....
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Re: The Humph
By: Joskin Date: August 21, 2013, 5:47 pm
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Welding done, more cleaning and painting, split breather pipe
removed to try and match up a new one......
Still on course me thinks :smilewide:
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Re: The Humph
By: Lucy Date: August 22, 2013, 2:26 am
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good luck for this afternoon!
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Re: The Humph
By: Stuey Date: August 22, 2013, 3:58 am
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Grand stuff, hopefully you'll be there over the weekend in him!
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