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For ages I have wanted a small tool bench with decent wheels I could wheel across our rocky yard for working on cars/trucks/tractors outside. Its always been on the back of my mind to build but I never got around to it. Earlier this year a retired friend gave us a load of old tools and workshop stuff including his old tool cabinet. It was pretty beat up and had tiny little wheels but the drawers work really well. So now I had a base to start with. NZ made. Guessing its 80's going by the font on the sticker. NZ made wheels too... I started with the build by hacking it apart... Luckily the drawers bit I wanted was self contained.. I had kept a section of old stainless steel bench top left over from some project I cant remember. It was missing one end but I had a plan and it was always going to be used for my ideal toolbox design.. I cleaned it all up, removed all the tar like glue that was on the underside and cut, bent and welded up the other end to match. I also welded up a drain hole it had.. I ripped down some eucalypt timber and cut it into an angle profile then used it to edge the stainless, now glued onto a sheet of ply. So with the top sorted I started on a frame. I needed some wheels and I had just the ticket. I have had these two wheels stashed away from when I did my apprenticeship back in the mid 90s. I was building a scooter that used a weedeater motor but never finished it. I had thrown away the rest but kept these new wheels. I still had the bearings they came with too. I machined the ends of some thick pipe to suit and made an axle... I bought some 100mm castor wheels with locks for the back from Mitre 10. Now a frame to mount them on. I rummaged through the steel rack and found suitable stuff to use... The drawers sit in place like such... I removed the handles and Hannah cleaned the drawers up so I could lob some paint at them.. Now I could start cladding it in plywood, using stuff left over from the mezzanine build. I had a pair of 500mm drawer runners from Bunnings left over from the kitchen build. Handy for a large drawer below the others.. Folded up a bit of sheet steel for the front... Made some stainless handles to match the others... And this is where I am up to so far... My next thing to sort out is the slide up section that all my spanners will go on. Then some handles, and finish the top cover that will be hinged so it can open out doubling the top area and exposing the stainless tray. We've already had some fun today going to Bunnings and Mitre10 selecting a few tools to add, the idea being I can almost clear the work bench area fully of car related tools. Itching to get back into finishing this now

Far out. Such detail. I'm impressed. Thanks for sharing. I only want an fd even more now so I can tinker away on it like this. I think if I wrote in such detail about a k11 people would tune out quick? Those alloy pedals are lush!

But yeah @Roman knows what's up. Then later on, when we've recovered enough, we'll swap the preface front end, with the spoiler etc across. But that involves painting and I don't get off on that.

With camo paint and aluminum tread plate door cards.

I really should do a white board drawing. Not just for the readers entertainment but in case I get lost. There are soon to be a whole lot of k11 parts, some in boxes, scattered all over the place.

YUSS!!! Hooray. A 1.0 facelift runs on a pfl 1.3 ecu! Started fine and revved up fine. I won't drive it because I'm sure the fuel table is different enough that it would be out of the narrowband o2 sensors range of adjustment. So the only other main difference between the cars now is the brake system (oh.. Ignoring the lack of clutch pedal on minky) They both have abs and the pumps are pretty much the same. However the molly, with her flash racecar spec disc brake rear end, has a few pipework differences and a couple of what look like pressure reducing valves in line. Not sure exactly but once we have Minkys heart out I can check it out properly. I wouldnt be surprised if the master cylinder on molly is a larger bore to suit rear calipers too. Id post up a video of minky starting on a pfl 1.3 ecu but its probably more fun for you all to watch some paint dry so I'll keep that bit of excessive excitement to myself..

With a big job or of the way it's back into these little things. Minkys time to go under the knife and have her heart ripped out. But first... I have removed the brain box from Molly, who for those who can't remember (keep up - this is important stuff eh) is a PFL 1.3 manual. Then I removed Minky. A facelift 1.0 auto. If the brains are the same (allowing for different fuel tables) and Mollys brain will run Minkys engine, then this could potentially save a fair bit of loom swapping. So far so good. The plugs and pin count are the same... I wanted to test this out before we pull Minkys heart out. Tune in soon to see if the brain swap happens.

when you get near the end of the thread you'll find there's a fall out with some of the others and he moves the thread over to this new forum... https://brm-forum.org/thread/2/1972-mazda-rx2-doom-needful

Pics please. I remember you showing me photos of the stuff you machined up ages ago. Looked sweet!

Your arse and beads go together like bread and butter....

.....and before you know it you'll be the boss. HORN PLEASE!

Don't stress. You could hide that fuck up with some of these...

Dont be hard on yourself for you are supplying the worlds gardeners some of the finest wheelbarrows ever made. Be proud of that.

Co2 for me. Works fine. Its all about how you stick your tongue out when welding.

yeah dont worry- I'm itching to get into restoring this little boat for sure!

Ha- that's just waaaaaaaay too much for me to watch man. I just browsed his videos. it must be noted that his most popular video appears to be this one...

So much nice sailing about down there too!

I'd like to find out who actually built it. It's been beautifully put together, very nice joints and finish to all the edges. Its practical but not flamboyant. Hopefully @Carsnz123 or @JustHarry might be able to find out more info because the fella we bought it off was a bit elusive when I asked him about the folder of info he claimed to have. I'm looking forward to adding a few more bits of hard wood trim and stainless inside to create our own little interior over time.

Is a tasman another kiwi made yacht? Its quite cool now I'm looking about and learning how many cool different trailer sailer boat designs have come from nz. @Samboone of the first things that tim, the fella who's boat we were on told me was to think about the sail being a planes wing standing vertically. Its the low pressure created on the front of it as the air flows across the sail that creates the 'pull' Up to that point i had always just considered a main sail as something that caught the wind from behind and the wind pushed the boat along. I never considered that it (well a modern sail) was shaped to create the same cross section as a planes wing. Sooooo much to learn! But it's fun Plus as carbydave @sentra told me when here - there's no fucking about worrying about certs and all that like with cars.

6.5 years later.. Its lost more paint, gained more cobwebs and has become a useful storage place for all sorts of stuff. But 6 weeks ago a load of local friends formed a yacht club. We had our first event on Sunday. A race out around a local island in the bay and back followed by chilling out on the beach in the lagoon, in the afternoon sun, inhaling nature and drinking Rum. We both went along, helped crew a friends trailer sailor, came fourth in the race, enjoyed the whole process very muchly! I just really loved the whole process of setting the sails, getting things in the right order, reading ahead what the next move should be and how much difference little changes can make to forward progress. I have always been aware that there is a huge technical aspect to sailing but never actually done any of it except a teeny bit of sailing when at Marlborough boys college. I can really see how people get hooked on it, especially racing. I accept that our yacht, being a bilge keeler, will never be super fast but I'll still be giving some racing ago- especially with our new super relaxed club!!! Took some pics... Got back home excited, sunburned and windswept with a slightly giddy head and wobbly legs. First thing we did was clear all the accumulated crap we'd had stored in our little yacht and sat inside it planning our attack on how we shall restore her in time for summer cruising. I took a few pics after having brushed off all the cobwebs, dust, leaves. She's luckily completely dry everywhere which is great so the boat shed we whacked together has been doing its job well. A rat has found its way in and had made a nest in a bag containing a sail. Not so good. Lesson learned. Luckily though the boat doesn't smell at all of rat nor is there any real sign of rat droppings or piss stains. The paint is pretty fucked all over, mainly from the sunshine. I think once restored we will make a drop down sunshade on the shed. So yeah. No progress at all but for a spring clean. Oh and going to the library to get some sailing books. This one here is a really good read!... Also exciting and interesting news for us. After joining the club on facebook I had posted up a few pics of Fiona Mari and lined out our plans. Someone in the club must have sent the link out because I had a private message from a lady... "Hi Alex, how extraordinary! My parents bought Fiona Mari from the Honey's about 1969. Dad, Noel and Alex Trethewey developed the Nolex 22 and 25. Dad drafted up drawings, then built our next trailer yacht based on Fiona Mari and the Nolex design. We have some drawings of Fiona Mari of you are interested. She was white in our care, and like the Honey family, became too small for a growing family of 5. I had hoped to find Fiona Mari a couple of years ago when the Nolex champs and celebrations were in Lyttelton. We are in Chch" Wow! So we chatted a bit about the boat and it turns out that this lady is actually Mum to harry @JustHarry and Wills @Carsnz123 Small world ! here's a pic will sent me of fiona mari when they owned her.. So we will start on the resto soon. We have a very large coffee cart build to finish for a customer over the next two weeks and once that's out I want to get the Micra engine swap finished off. Then we can look to bringing the boat in and hoisting it off the trailer for work. Looking forward to posting some updates here soon!

Did matey boy Alister get a bit excited when you rocked up into his yard in your truck? His mum makes a good coffee and biscuits and they have a huge collection of mugs around the walls of the kitchen.

@Kiwibirdman Thanks. We had a different technician come out for a look and he was super helpful, happy to explain how it all works etc. He said as much as you- its a distance thing. At 3.5km from the exchange we are just too far for VDSL to work plus he said our copper line is a slightly older grade which is not as efficient. Fuck he had some cool machines to test things with. Good news is that its way better now (well... if you can call 3 or 4 MB per sec good. But it is for us. Tractor porn and nissan micra tuning videos here I come....

Its a neat conversion eh! Many moons ago (well around 2008ish) I measured up a bmw k100 engine on a workmates bike, one of the cycle shops I had worked at in blighty. It looked perfect, I bought abmw k100 manual, I did some scribbles and worked some bits- got all excited. Then moved back to NZ and started looking for an IMP. But got stuck into building the housetruck. A scottish guy on the imp club had been following my chat about said engine and he got stuck into the conversion. Did a bloody good job too and started having a neat adaptor for the bmw engine to the imp gearbox cnc'd up. He sold quite a few on and then sold the rights to some other fella/company or something. So there's been quite a few built now. That one above is certainly one of the neater ones. If I wasn't going down the goldwing route I'd probably have just done this conversion. I'd had @AndyGal asking about engines at his old work at one point. But I'm happy to be fucking about with six cylinders now

Or just screw the costs - combine the drinking, drugs and modelling to see what comes of it.

Moving my dog and bone discussion here rather than filling spam with spam... @locost_bryan I found more info. But I'd still like to know why we cant get it, especially as there's loads of spare cables available for use between the exchange and our valley. I'm wondering if its the distance @3.5km which VDSL cant work with? From electronicsforu.com...... 'Digital subscriber line (DSL) technology offers high-speed Internet service for homes and offices over telephone lines. It is unique because you can use the Internet and make telephone calls at the same time. A DSL system separates telephone signals into three frequencies bands: lowest band for telephone calls, and other two for uploading and downloading online activities. There are two types of DSL: asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) and symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL). If data throughput in upstream direction (towards service provider) is lower, it is ADSL. In SDSL service, both downstream and upstream data rates are equal. Bit rate of DSL services (downstream) typically ranges from 256kbps to over 100Mbps, depending on DSL technology, line conditions and servicelevel implementation. Very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) and very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line 2 (VDSL2) technologies provide data transmission faster than ADSL. These can also be deployed over existing wires used for analogue telephone service. VDSL offers speeds of up to 52Mbps downstream and 16Mbps upstream, and is capable of supporting applications such as high-definition television (HDTV), telephone services (voice over IP) and general Internet access, over a single connection. VDSL2 (second-generation system) uses frequencies up to 30MHz to provide data rates exceeding 100Mbps, simultaneously in both upstream and downstream directions. ADSL technology covers a larger distance than VDSL. It supports only asymmetric data and plain old telephone (POT) service, while VDSL supports asymmetric, symmetric data and pots.