yetchh

Yeah my later ones have two holes on the left.. 

Kinda looks like an early mazda.. 

It'll look the shiz when you finished.. I have a little soft spot for timber villas. Ours was no different either, amazing rimu floors covered with carpet and Cork tiles. 

Yeah I like plaster (am an ex plasterer) but I'm fucked if I can understand why people put plaster over weather boards like that. 

If I'm not traveling, I shall.. Won't be os tho. 

6 hours ago, Bling said:

Won't make this one, but i'll tag this guy in case he hasn't seen it @yetchh

Seen it, potentially driving to golden bay next weekend so won't be there. 

Fuck, that was quick. 

Yeah I also did my own with Threaded rod ground to a point and tacked on them used a big socket as the slide. 

On 13/09/2021 at 13:00, drftnmaz said:

For actual damage yes... but any smart wof place will fail you first time every time because it makes them look better in the review system (looks dodgy if you pass everyone first time, but looks good if you are failing 95%), so leaving a obvious fail is the smartest move, like a bulb etc that doesn't work, or they will fail you on something silly to make up for it like wiper blades

Yeah I don't agree with that. My 121 passed three wofs in a row over the space of 2 years and I wouldn't say these guys were dumb. Last thing my hilux failed its 6 month on was tyres and that was 2+ years ago. 

6 hours ago, SunnyCoupe said:

Hi team, have a few things coming up in summer that would be cool to have this going for, just having a sudden burst of motivation to get it out of the shed. Looking for workshop recommendations, have been a bit hesitant in the past as I'm really looking for a place that won't crush my sills/leave car parts leaned up against it/leave head torches on top of the aircleaner that ding the bonnet when you shut it (true story). Needs a crack in the radiator welded up and a transmission leak located and repaired, had a big puddle of ATF under it when I wheeled it out last. Not necessarily looking for a super cheapy box-o-piss old-school-hookup backyard Barry bodgy bog over, happy to pay the money to do it right but yeah just the priority is getting it back without me having to look at old photos to work out if that ding was there when I dropped it off...thanks team.  

 

Where is the car located? 

The garage out my way  I use for wofs does a lot of old school stuff. I rate them. 

Bromley Auto. 

16 hours ago, tortron said:

I have a pile of used engine valves and some hot glue sticks (reuse the glue, just heat the valve up with a heat gun) and slide hammer vice grip combo

Hot glue works good.. Just gotta warm the panel as well

Oosh.. 110k for an s3 rx4

https://www.trademe.co.nz/3251021406

Can't be the original front and rear tho.  Is he dreaming for a non genuine coupe? 

Looks like a zephyr Bell housing.. 

4 hours ago, Bling said:

What legal protection does rego offer? Paying rego with no WOF is just taking out insurance you won't get fined $200 if you fail the attitude test. 2c

 

Well I'm actually about to get wofs so you're rego has to be legal.. 

8 minutes ago, Bling said:

I have a printer and paint so that can be arranged. I'll send my payment deets.

"legally"... 

2 hours ago, Bling said:

I don't get it either.

If anyone is looking to offload cash on pointless stuff, hit me up, will gladly take it off your hands.

 

If you can give me 12 months rego legally for $47 I'll gladly pay up.. 

Yeah, there's heaps of parts in the states for us made stuff. But who knows how long it'll take to be delivered. Last thing I bought at the beginning of the year to 7 weeks. 

Just now, kyteler said:

We’ll, I’ll be dipped. The FD is now registered again. 
 

Cheers @MIRAGE-MAN

Hah, I checked it about 3 days ago and it wouldn't let me register....

Now 121 and zed both 12 months. 

30 minutes ago, RUNAMUCK said:

If that guy worked on that ford the same.way he works on his house, it would be a show winning 9 second car in no time.

Hah..... I wish. 

Got some things on the last day of lockdown.. 

So got onto nailing. Had to do the gaps at 4mm which was double what I would normally do but that fit all the boards without me having to rip one down.. 

Missus started oiling 

Finished it this arvo.. Fuck it was cold, my last favourite kind of weather. 

Only problem now in the steps look shit and old.. 

19 minutes ago, RUNAMUCK said:

 

Shit to a blanket is understating how well 11fc holds. Quite some years ago we used some to glue some steel plated to 80mpa precast concrete panels. 

They had to be removed due to a fuck up. (Monster sharn that story, that could have ended VERY badly/front page bad news) 

I ripped the plates off the panel with a cold chisel, and a club hammer. 

When I finally got it off, there were bits of concrete stuck to the 11FC, that had been ripped out of the panel. Its fucking amazing shit.

Yeah it's really good stuff, well worth the price. 

Then it rained.. So I spent some time inside cutting things off the list.. 

Finally did the panels above and below the oven

Also the finger handle on the door just to the right of the oven. As I mounted all the handles horizontal this would have looked wack with one handle vertical. Took me 4 years to put one on. 

Routed a slot, 

Finger pull.. 

Moved a light that has irked me the entire time we've been here. For some reason originally we weren't gonna put in a kitchen extractor so set the lights out for that, but to get code we had to have one which made one light redundant.. 

Extended the led cable as its low voltage. 

Then spent a good part of an hour trying to get a piece of wire from one hole to the next, had about 4 photos I could look at to see what was in the way.. Still couldn't get one across. In the end I could just get my arm in the hole to feel where the wire was going and then from the other side with a bread knife and my arm in the other hole I could touch the wire. So made a hook, feed that through then a hook with another bit of wire and somehow managed contact... It was a total cunt, at one point had me wondering why I fucken started.. 

Lights better anyway and my ocd is satisfied. 

Also filled a gap at the edge of the bench that I fucked up when I installed it.. 

Cut a fillet, 

Epoxied it in. Can still see it but hopefully once I silicone around there it won't be so noticeable. 

With that finished I got onto the balustrade and finished decking. Decided that I should make an effort to copy what I did at the front door. 

This pile, 

Recut, 

Trimmed somewhat.. 

Turned into this. Had some rough sawn 100x50 which I used for the handrail which, surprisingly after a sand with 40 grit comes up nicer than the planner gauge 90x45. Feels softer on the hand and also had less splintery bits. At this point I also ran out of copper nails (sigh*) so had to order some through miter10 delivery which was 3 to 5 days... 

Def looks better anyway.