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38 minutes ago, NickJ said:

Its been a massive learning curve recently and I suspect there is even more to come but for now the urgency to get a pedal has diminished from learning more about the 4t settings (and is one less body part to coordinate!)

I can totally see the filler speed being the way, but holy shit there is some muscle memory to learn before I can get near to laying out more than 100mm at a time!

Messing around has rapidly chewed through the first bottle of Argon, will need to pick up another next week.

Is your gas turned up too high? Have you tried turning it down?

10 minutes ago, sr2 said:

I'll have to beg to differ. For years tetrachloroethylele (not sure if I'm spelling it right!) was easily available as it was used in  dry-cleaning and was also a well known as a metal degreaser. We also used to use carbon tetrachloride but with idiots home brewing drugs it's much harder buying chemicals these days.

With tetrachloroethylele being the active ingredient in Brakeclean it's an easy and convenient way of de-greasing metal. 

Brakekleen is not recommended for degreasing prior to welding because Tetrachloroethylene, when heated to temperatures you get in welding creates Phosgene gas. Phosgene gas is really not good for you... it was used as a chemical weapon.

Does your Hornet smell like it runs really rich? Mine does. Apparently it's fairly common in the CB900.

8 hours ago, yoeddynz said:

yeah that's what I checked first- after noticing the lack of rego details usually on the official emails.  And yeah- they had made their email name 'NZTA'

I meant that they have their name as "no.reply@nzta.govt.nz" <somestolenemail@gmail.com> rather than "Spammy Mcspamalot" <somestolenemail@gmail.com>. Most email clients, especially phones only show the sender 'name', so it says From: "no.reply@nzta.govt.nz" and it appears legit. You can make the 'name' anything you want, they can also fake the sender email address but these days it's a lot harder for them to get away with faking the sender address of legit organisations. (Orgs will typically have a published list of what systems can legit send their email, spam filters will check this list when they get an email that claims to be from that org).

I'm the email admin at work. I see loads of these. The easiest way to check if it's dodgy is to look at the sender address. Sometimes they will also try trick you by making their 'name' the 'legit' email address.

Took a bit of thinking to work out a neat way to fill the last hole on this side. I'll linish back some of these welds, they are welded both sides.

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Still got this side to do.

SO much more access to weld the back of the strut towers now. It will go back in later, but trying to contort my arms through it to get good welding angles was a bitch.

I also needed to make some space for the propshaft universal.

Seems like a real good way to permanently damage whatever is your preferred orifice. Like whatever is the term for the inside out version of degloving.

So I'm reasonably sure the subframe is aligned correctly. But just in case, I have given myself some wiggle room.

These big washers will allow me to move the mounts around a few mm.

And a bit of plate with a threaded hole and a pointy bolt that fits into a corresponding hole in the big bolt to temporarily 'lock' it into position.

I'll leave it like this until I can get it on a wheel alignment machine. Once I confirm that the subframe is straight, I'll weld it all solid.

I still need to make a plan for the front mounts. I don't have any flat surface there, so I need to create a temporary one.  

I second it being legit. Uses a chemical process called chelation. So no acid. There are several products that are all the same shiz. Metal rescue is another one. It eventually does stop working because the active ingredient is used up in the chelation reaction and it gets real dark brown.

Stop crying guys, it was full of rust and bog.

22 minutes ago, Kerry-TGI said:

What is the process with prepsol, do you follow it around with a clean dry rag, or have to rinse it etc

It evaporates fairly fast.

3 hours ago, RUNAMUCK said:

 

 an axe is remarkably effective. 

 

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. You animal.

Dang it. Scrap metal place only has big trucks, so it will cost them more than the shell is worth to collect it. But mate next door is cool with me chopping it into bits to fit in his small trailer and taking it in that.

On a positive note, I did get $52 for the two stuffed copper radiators I dropped off.

5 minutes ago, SOHC said:

Its from a phase converter, I am getting something like this, I though it should be around 400v but dose normal 3 phase from the mains look like this?

I'm running a 240 volt single phase to 400 volt 3 phase VFD on my motor. I set it up a couple of years ago so it's a bit hazy, but from memory, I think I got around 218 measuring between two phases.

EDIT: from what other people have said, maybe my memory is too hazy. It must have been 218 from each phase to ground.

16 hours ago, DB8-TypeR said:

"how much for cash"

I assume they have heard others use this and think it's a general makes-it-cheaper deal. I believe you are supposed to use it when dealing with someone who would normally add tax and you want to "go under the table".... and fuck the tax man.

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