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| awemawson:
Thanks chaps for the comments. ...bling ... Now I did consider cutting out a stencil on the laser cutter to paint stencil the JCB logo back on to the seat, as this one doesn't have it :ddb: Mind you, paint and me don't seem to get on too well recently. I got some grey to touch in that bit of the window frame I welded up. It was far too dark. Never mind I thought - it's Xylene thinned, and I have some white paint that thins with xylene, I'll put a few drop of that in and we'll be good to go. Sadly not, mixed apparently ok in a jam jar. When I did a test spray I couldn't get the spray settings right, it was going in fits and starts. Turns out that the two paints are reacting with each other and making flocculations that were blocking the nozzle. :bang: |
| DMIOM:
--- Quote from: awemawson on August 06, 2015, 10:35:55 AM ---.... Now I did consider cutting out a stencil on the laser cutter to paint stencil the JCB logo back on to the seat, as this one doesn't have it ..... --- End quote --- Obviously paint is the wrong thing for the seat - if your machine collection doesn't yet have one, you clearly need one of those CNC embroidering sewing machines, so you can embroider the logo ! Dave |
| trapper:
--- Quote from: awemawson on July 13, 2015, 08:44:02 AM ---Almost all tracked vehicles use the same method of track tensioning. The idler sprocket slides in a track way, and is forced outwards by a grease filled cylinder the other end of which rests against a massive spring seated firmly against the chassis. The tension is applied by pumping grease into the cylinder. So to remove the track you undo the grease fitting and let the piston in the cylinder move back releasing tension (and masses of grease!) With the tension released I had a devil of a job getting the first track off, levering, prying, cussing a bit. Eventually I decided to remove the bolts from the drive sprocket as I was changing it anyway, thus allowing the track to slide sideways. Eventually it came off :bang: --- End quote --- |
| vtsteam:
Nice job on that seat, Andrew! :bow: :bow: :beer: |
| awemawson:
Thanks Steve, more down to the materials than my skills I fear. One of the minor irritations with this machine which is now becoming more major, is the non working fuel gauge. When I got it, I knew it wasn't working as there was no needle on the gauge :scratch: I had rather hoped that it was 'just missing' and at some time I could get around to making one. Well as is life, there proved to be a little more to it than that :bang: I made a tiny little needle, got it fixed, but still no joy - no movement, zilch. |
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