Its like a new van

Alex (FTS) · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject: Its like a new van

Yo Yo thought I would give you all a wee up date. I've been away at home busting it out on the van-I had similar work to do as covin has just done-all the inner front and about 2" up each chassis leg plus two cross members in the middle. My air sheers are my new favourite tool now-they must have saved my hours in cutting metal and they even cut through 1.8mm which was very usefull-good bye old crappy0.8 vw steel hello 1.2 and 1.8mm galvanised steel and then painted in metal marine paint and then underseeled and then waxoiled

try and get through that rust oh and I painted epoxy over all my welds to!

My Dad also rewired my front end-cheers Dad so every thing is working better that even (infact I'm not sure how alot of it was working in the first place-I think I had a perfect balance of short circuits thatr was making it all work as acording to the haynes manual my old wiring shouldnt of ever been able to work

I was also blessed with 48 hours of great weather so I went for it and sprayed a bit of paint on the old goose. The black was a misstate all my paint tins were in French and I thought it was a black under coat for the blue top coat I have-which it was but I assumed undercoat would be primer and not topcoat. As the object of the mission was just too seel it up I thought I would just leave it black as opposed to spraying on the blue over the top.

The paint job aint that great but I am pleased with how straight the bus is-I've still got loads of fiddly bits of fine filling to do but that can now wait untill next spring!

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Alex (FTS) · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:08 am Post subject:

Finaly sust this picture malarky instead of links

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jp · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:17 am Post subject:

That's look really good mate

I do like panel vans love

think I may have said that before Grin

You still thinking of going for some landy roof lights ?
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Alex (FTS) · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

Cheers fella.

Its alittle rough up close in certain areas but I'm happy to live with it for now and just enjoy the van working better than ever!

Hows yours getting fella?
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jp · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:23 am Post subject:

Getting nowhere fast at the mo with this baby mullarky (how time consuming is one of them!) Hoping things will settle down in a few weeks so I can get back on it.
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Alex (FTS) · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:35 am Post subject:

Hell yer kids are amzing but dont half tire you out! I think working on a campervan is easy compared to looking after babies!

love

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pepper · Jedi Knight Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 245

You should try getting anything done when you have 4 daughters and one son!

famous phil · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject: bay paint

looks ok from here , just like a pic of a bus i saw on an auction site eb*y
looked realy good on the add ,,, guy wasent very helpfull when i wanted to see it ,, but pesterd him till he let me see ,, what mess it was ,,
cant tell how he got the last MOT never mind the 1s before

as for kids try one that likes to help out , with 120 grade sand paper on yer nice shiny paint ,,
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pepper · Jedi Knight Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 245

Wouldn't 1200 grade or finer wet N dry be better?

famous phil · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject: bay paint