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Couldn't be worse, right? The vid of it driving into the show made my shoddy welds all worthwhile.

New DCA1820 18V to 20V Battery Convertor Adapter for Dewalt Battery http://s.aliexpress.com/3UBNnIbi (from AliExpress Android)

Man I was hoping this thread was about DeWalt stuff... I have exactly the same issue. It turns out DeWalt sell a pole - slide battery converter I hear it's awesome, even AVE uses it.

Needed a small sandbag for going under the corners of my floor patch while hammering.. I love making something from nothing so used an old glove as the cuffs don't wear out. And then Greg did the sewing ( so basically he did 90% of it haha)

Just got home from Greg's- first I did some terrible MiG welding and then helped cover the terrible welding with fibreglass wrap (phew)

Nick you are a bloody champion.

So that last post was fuckin terrible. I have never done any sort of sheet metal like this (just what's in this thread) so it was easy for me to bust out some garbage that filled the hole and sort of ignore how terrible it was. I made the mistake of sharing some of those images on Facebook and got many good comments and I fleas feeling pretty good about things. Nek minnit a friend (an Oldschool rodder who has done thousands of hours of high quality bodywork) was brutally honest about how shit that section of floor is and told me I could do better. It was embarrassing as hell and I remembered what it felt like to be an apprentice.. so started googling. First of all- I need to buy some decent hammers. It's pretty damn obvious but every dent in your hammer is going to leave a mark in the steel. I shouldn't have used my single planishing hammer for driving nails, basically. Secondly- it's not THAT hard to watch some videos and just do things properly. So I polished the face of my only hammer and gave my only dolly a file. Then I made a template of what I thought would be the hardest section to start with, transferred it to MDF and rasped some curves round the perimeter. I can flip this wood over and use it to do the driver's side (which I cut out way too eagerly) I pinned the steel into place with a few nails and started tapping it round...Which didn't last long as it soon became a pretzel. So if you don't have a shrinker stretcher there seems to be really only one way of shrinking things. You have to make a joggle tool..There seem to be quite a few diy solutions online but I just cut a slot into this big old screwdriver. You slip it over the edge of the panel where you need it shrunk and twist then move along and twist in the other direction. Eventually you end up with what looks like a cupcake case. But rather than being twisted like before it will now have a flat bottom ..Like TS The joggle tool is also great for shaping the edge of panels.. you can slip it on and lever the steel up or down in little increments and grandually change things quite nicely. Next you need heat. All I have is a little MAP set but it suits my limited space and does the job. Heat the joggled area cherry red and then tap down quickly and gently over a dolly. This squashes the z's down flat but somehow doesn't spread them back out.. dunno how but it works waaaaaay better than expected. So.. a heap more tapping and adjusting with this new dolly I made and suddenly I have something nearly ready to fit! Now I need a hammer with a pick end and a way of forming the swage in the rear section.

Bloody awesome!

Can everyone else see those images OK?

I'll try this again Pushing myself to get this done. Today I tackled the floor. First I made a template using card stuck down with Ali Express magnets, cut out of 1.2 panel steel, removed the old rusty crap (messily) and am now taking my time to adjust things and get positioning right using clicoes to hold things down temporarily. If you don't have any- GET SOME as they are absolutely invaluable! I beat the beads in with a ballpean..Happy with how it turned out so far as it's far more than I have ever done before!!

What's up with the big hole in ya watch strap? For some reason it puzzles me haha

I have had a few bits electroplated in gold zinc- I have had all the bits sand blasted first and I really dig the resulting finish. I guess it depends entirely on what you want. I'd upload a photo but can't get it to work

Hey thanks man! Have been doing lots to it recently- I'd put up pics if i could make it work

I have been pushing myself to spend more time in the shed... So another 5 patches down.. no more left around the windows!!! A few pics..

55kg! Jesus! Does it still need a flywheel?

I worked for 4wd fiberglass briefly and had a CJ tub from them. Flick me a PM

Lol.. AliExpress dolls heads...

Buy 3 more sets and run off 12v

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That paint repair blew my mind!

I had to fix a very new ranger recently- the trailer was brand new and worked on one vehicle but did dumb things on the ranger. I ran a multimeter over the rangers plug and it seemed fairly okay for continuity to earth etc but still failed with trailer. Followed wires, popped out a tail light and found that one of those SHIT plastix clip-over wire splicing connectors had popped open. A simple cable tie fixed it but jeez it was hard to diagnose from looking at the trailer lamp operation.

Putting the wife through fertility treatment so money has been tighter than usual but managing to do cheap shit occasionally. I removed the bent grille in top center of the dash (is it for a single speaker?) Sent some bits off for gold zinc plating Drilled some holes in my fuel tank mounting frame as it's way too sturdy/heavy. Will get this gold zinc plated too Also did some trading and bought some fiberglass front guards (need to get these north from invers somehow!) And also a fiberglass nosecone that was made locally.

That seat is off AE?! Is there anything that place can't do?

Wait...so slower now than before?