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I realised I have run out of Brunox convertor/primer, I had a ring around and it seems the only spray on equivalent is crc, does anyone rate this or should I hold out for the brunox?

There appears to be some sort of weird pagan festival going on that my family expects me to participate in, but even so I have managed to get the windscreen out and cleaned up, with the expected level of ugly sitting in there. Yesterday I also managed a difficult bit of the passenger door, with some pretend pressed sections and a hem detail that I'm quite pleased with;

I suspect I am being far too dry for him to suspect anything, but if he was that into me he should have stalked the rest of my imgur and perhaps got an inkling of some of my scope of work and the implications....

I now know exactly what it is like to be mansplained to.

Also I am hoping to troll this tedious imgur fucker for a bit longer

Got some use out of my stupidly big and chunky ramps, its not a bad working height. Fixed this little bit of ugly in the frunk. Apart from the windscreen area thats all the hard stuff done.

Cracking on I tried the thing where you weld little patches at a time all over the place and hose it down with air to keep the distortion down, however my enthusiasm got the better of me in that vertical run. Good enough though and way better than what was/wasnt there.

Spent an hour with the wire brush on the front of it, this was like an archeological dig to uncover a special world of poor decisions and welding fuckery. Further digging on this spot tells me the windscreen will need to come out, this area and the same on the other side was there when I first had it, but the new layer of bog hadn't really solved the issue; This had bog all over it for no real reason, there is a dent but no attempt had been made to pull it out; Im going to cut out all those patches and do them again, but this time with feeling.

Shit I'd better be careful what evidence I leave around the place with fucking ol CSI: Wellywood on the case.

Yea it looks pretty much exactly the same, maybe a new fuel pump in there, and the headers have been wrapped. We ran it the day i looked at it, nothing obviously horrible going on. I checked and its only done 6000 odd km since I sold it. I am probably going to fit an uprated clutch, so If the engine is out I will drop the sump and have a geez. I got it into the shed today, so ill see how much I can get through in the next couple of weeks.

Righto, time to thread dredge I decided it was time to smash this out. Some things were unbolted and I got to seeing if it was possible to replicate 40 year old italian paint with some cans of brunox, custom colour and matt clear coat. 'Kinda' is the answer. This is what it looked like, although I did wire brush it and wiped it with prepsol. One coat of Brunox Two coats of Brunox Some colour; No clear on that yet but I kindof sorted the boot as a test, this went well apart from I needed to scuff up the clear to get it looking shitty enough, it might need a bit more loving. So yea roast the fuck out of my sad efforts in the discussion, even though you and I both know I am a massive useless dickhead when it comes to paint. It least it will be mostly the same shade of blue at the end.

To stop the rust the most reliable way is it sell it and never buy another fiat, but where is the fun in that? A mate of mine had a wagon one of these a long time ago that someone had put a twin cam into, it was pretty rare I imagine. The wagon styling worked for me.

I might have a horn pump for you, there was a bit of extra shit came with my X1/9 and I recall there were a couple of very OS looking pumps. I'll have a look in the weekend.

Oh man I can tell I'm caring too much.

Im genuinely not being sarcastic, how do you earth the frame of a 100% wooden building?

The 3 pin plug to caravan plug has a overcurrent breaker in a box halfway along. I can do the earth neutral connection in there (and probably mark it as modded so no future wrongness). The inverter datasheet says this needs to happen for rcd protection and i confirmed that with them. Lets hope the main wiring has been done by a competent professional. It has but just dont ask which profession.

Ok right. There is an RCD/overcurrent on the caravan plug circuit, but it shouldn't be an issue plugging into shore power as that will totally disconnect the solar setup from everything else. The inverter has a body earth post, so this can/should be hooked up to the 230v side earth circuit before the caravan plug right...? I am also assuming I can just test for a connection between the the inverter earth and neutral with a multimeter? It is a decent quality 700w Nomad pure sine.

Panels/battery/inverter. There are no metal parts but there is a stake from the previous building for earthing..

I have built a wee cabin as an office space, I am currently sitting in that chair writing this The cabin has a 230v caravan plug for the power connection. However, I am going to power this with solar so things are independent, and I intend to connect from the inverter to the caravan plug with a protected cable I bought. The question I have is what happens to the 230v earthing? Do I treat the whole system as floating and ignore it or tie it to earth somewhere....? Or am I too dumb to be doing this and should seek out a professional? TIA

Ha I did think about asking but there were only a few good sheets. I brought the garage down with a digger and most of that was only flattish because I jumped on it so it would stack better Got $150 so cant complain.

Just doing Dynafari things

Managed this over the last couple of weekends, was a bit of punishment. Took 3 of 6 goes to get the rolling right as usual, the re-roll/bounce on the wronguns. I reckon thats pretty convincing. I found a man in chch who will make a pvc cover from old billboard material for a pretty reasonable amount of money, that should do the trick.

I am a dumb fuck probably. But it is mostly because it looks like there has been a fairly serious electrical issue or maybe a small fire. The battery tray area has had a lot of metalwork loving and so it is possible the original fusebox just got filled up with rusty water from the battery area, I did have to clean out more grime and shit from that tray than I would have expected when i removed it. Whatever the reason, someone has grafted a new front section of the loom and fusebox onto the old one. I do not have any level of confidence in this work, although I don't really know why or if that is a real issue. Either way if I was to just use it as is then try and troubleshoot any issues I can see unbelievable levels of frustration and anger in the future if shit no longer matches the factory diagrams. Then there are some known X1/9 issues; High amp power going through the key switch, headlamp supply, headlamp pod motor supply etc, all of which should really be going through relays and have bigger supply wires. These well known issues had not been addressed at all during the rewire and if implemented would essentially be a whole lot of dirty hacks grafted in to what is there, making the loom even harder to work with and to understand. Plus everything was unplugged and the car essentially disassembled, TBH the decision to do it made itself. But yea I hear you....

There has to be a certain saving, the factory looms have so many weird wire runs, like the power for the headlight motors then runs back to power the lighter socket as far as I can tell. Apparently if you are a guru you can troubleshoot what is broken by collating it with the other completely unrelated broken things, ie the wipers don't work so check if the left hand brake light is out sort of thing. I will do some checks when I get the old loom out.