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thanks BUGGOFF you will get to have a very nice look at it one day when the body gets sent to you for metal work and paint

here is the final drawing of the rotiserie i did today (im no artist or technical drawer so excuse the angles it is just there so that when metal arrives i can give the company that will be doing the welding for me a idea of what i want )
hope it came out clear enuf to see

Dude, seriously, make your pictures smaller. There is no need to stick up pics which take 3 minutes to load and kill bandwidth completely. They all get downsized so they fit the screen after downloading anyway.

go to this link http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... lman2.mspx
load the program. When you right-click on a picture icon you will be given an option to resize and then you get asked what size you want

sorry i automatically have them resized when i upload them on to photobucket to medium so once i have submitted them they look fine so have always thought they where fine will change it to a smaller choice on photobucket and see what happens but thanks tony

Did u c that rotiserie on samba? The 2 rings where the whole body fit in. Wouldnt mind building 1 of those.

yes but i think it would work better on a bus

True.

So last week was able to go and meet Pierre (Bugger) and leave the front beam with him to get the adjusters welded in (at last after saying i was gonna have it done for qite some time now) and should be back not long from now since then the trailing arms spent a nite soaked in petrol and then used a round bristled cleaning brush to clean out any extra grease that didnt make its way out ....result :all the trailing arms are 100% free of grease and taped up and should be off to get sandblasted soon with the beam once it gets back ,all i have to get now is king and link pins that i should have soon then its just finding someone who knows what they doing and getting them all pressed in and all the other stuff that goes with it.Then all that has to happen is the beam needs to be painted and reasemmbled and then the front beam is done then will slowly work my way back starting with floor pans,gearbox and all the nice bits that come with it.

so here are some pics of some of the things ive done so far

trailing arms are clean (pic taken looking down the inside of the trailing arm)

trailing arms all taped up

front half of the pan roller is done just needs to have the other support welded in and its wheels fitted so it can move

Looking sweet shane.

Ok so today was my last day of my pre-exam break ,sunday will actually be the last one but anyways this is what i got up to

So today since all the powder coating companies closed early mom had a day off so she agreed to run me round to pick up some bolts and get a few things i needed to get for the project so off we went first was to drop irretating sister off to do her own thing then went on to volkspares picked up some bushings and seals that where needed then was on to builders and the Nut hut (company that sells bolts and nuts) to pick up some supplies and get bolts taking with bolts and getting high tensile bolts where needed then on my way back mom saw ardendorfs machinery and decided to stop there she made me walk round the shop and look at the things and came and asked me for my bank card so gave it to her (how dumb am i ????) well she eventually told me she had had enuf browsing round and where off home, got home and was busy unpacking all my stuff out the car to see something i couldnt of bought had a look at it read the very bold heading that read *sandblasting gun* well unpacked all my stuff out the car hopped on to bank to see my days damages to see that it says i spent money at ardendorfs but didnt think back to realise i had given my mom my bank card well since it was payed for with my money opened it up hauled out the compressor hooked up all its parts found something i was gonna take to get sandblasted and gave it a go (wearing all the safety equip needed)all i can say is i take my hat off to those people who have to sit in a sandblating booth and sandblast for a living,oviosly i dont have a compressor that costs about R300 000 like they have and all the sandblasting pots and gadgets and so on but at the end of the day i sandblasted most probally my first of a few parts that will go onto the bug (will post pics once cameras battery has charged was a bit stupid and didnt take pics of what the part looked like before but will do in the future )


well i have all the bushings and a few of the bolts i will be needing for now ..........pics will come soon

ok here are the pics as promised the before photo is just the other side trailing arm they looked almost the same so just used it

this is the sandblasting tool (nothing special just has a pipe that runs into a bucket of very fine white sand)

this is what it looked like before

after sandblasting for about and hour this is what it looks like now(still has alot more to go)

so today my day was spent stripping the last few bits out of the body removed rear back side windows to find nice clean strips much better than the back window where the botto strip was crumbling in my hand while i pulled the rubber for the window away then started to have a look at how to remove the doors removed a few caps found some screws treated them with some Q20 tru out the day will see if they come loose tommorow then climed under the car to find very nice looking not rusted heater channels cant say the same thing for the lower door hinge metal can stick my finger in the on side and out the other, both sides will be needing new metal replacement pieces so will go have a look tonite and see what i find on the web in terms of metal replacement then tommorow will do a full run down and find out what can be cut out, and replaced and what needs to have metal replacement pieces found.......more tommorow

these are them hope this is all i have to get

king and link pins are here now its just the beam and then have to pick the trailing arms up from sandblasting then it all goes to Werner Alker to be assembled lets hope all goes well and i can get the right hand side spindle back from powder coaters soon.

ok so today was about to move the body onto trailer to get it ready to leave for new house, of course getting the family to help is just one long line of a never ending storie, so decided today was the day i started on the body roller. So was off to builders wharehouse, bought 4 big castor wheels to be able to roll over our bumpy drive way.Got home ordered metal ,they dont deliver on sundays but should be here tommorow if all goes well.Went outside found a piece of stainless steel to use to mount the castors, cut 4 mounts out of it now i wait till tommorow when metal arrives, then should have it all tacked if not welded up by tommorow afternoon. (pics of what i got up to today are on there way)