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| awemawson:
Another job that's been outstanding for a while is to make up some replacement covers. One of the track adjuster covers was present - the other was missing. As was the cover that keeps prying fingers out of the hydraulic oil filler and filter housing. Both were originally 3 mm mild steel and I had a sheet of 3 mm Zintec delivered weeks ago but not got around to making them. Bright and early this morning I got on with it, cut the profiles, drilled the holes, gave them a coat of zinc rich primer and a spray of JCB yellow. I'll leave them a day or two to harden. While it was off I cleaned up the existing track adjuster cover and sprayed it as well. |
| RussellT:
Well done with this machine Andrew. Persistence pays off again. I've always rather approved of nuts and bolts having different sized hexagons - that way you only need to own one set of spanners - but I suspect I wouldl spend ages looking for a 14mm spanner while I could find half a dozen 13mm ones. Russell |
| edward:
I did a bit of clearing up the other week and found that between the car, garage and my 4 year old sons toolbox, we have 8 13mm combination spanners and a couple of offset rings and ratchets. God knows where they have come from! Only got 2 or 3 14mm though:) |
| awemawson:
Before I fit the cab roof 'light bar' I wanted to replace the window seal, that will be trapped under it's mountings. Amusingly it is the exact same stuff used on the Traub CNC lathe :clap: Taking the old stuff off revealed that water had been trapped behind it where the wiper arm comes to rest to the extent that there were holes in the window frame :bugeye: My first intention had been to wire brush off the rust, and make a 'bondo' repair using perforated zinc sheet to both re-inforce it and give a degree of anodic protection, but my conscience got the better of me and I decided to cut out the rust and weld a proper patch in. My first reluctance was based on the fact that access to the back is neigh on impossible, but then I realised that it is 3 mm thick and that by bevelling the patch and frame I could get perfectly adequate penetration from one side. |
| awemawson:
So, mark out what needs chopping out, make a pattern, and cut a patch - how hard can it be ? In fact it all went very well, except that first time I cut the 'wrong half' of my pattern and wondered why the patch didn't fit. :bang: Never mind, only a matter of minutes to make another :lol: |
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