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Agreed. Why all black wires?. Suck.

Btw- where are planning on biking? Mega jealous as I just cycling in the Alps etc.

 

dunno why all black, may be a discount on a 1000meter roll of cable, bugger if i know,

 

by biking, i mean motorbikes, so from scotland down to romania and the black sea and back up,

hopefully hit holland, belgium, france, switzerland, italy, slovenia, croatia, bosnia, serbia, romania, hungary, austria, germany for the beer fest, czech republic, back in to germany and holland and back to the uk, we'll probably get to litchenstein and luxembourg just to tick them off the list,  the main objective is to go to as many mountian roads in as many countries as possible, have a swim in the black sea, drink loads of cheap beer, eat goulash, and hopefully have no crashes or breakdowns :D

 

any way photo for thread,

 

the 2 cabs sitting back to back while i change everything over, 

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im aiming for most of the inside to be changed over by this time next week,

all things equal, famous last words

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well the last few days have been a big waste of fucken time,

i need the earth lugs welded on before i can chuck the desk back into the new cab,  but every fucker seems to be dragging their feet,

in 3 days i have literally cut 2 holes out of the floor for the aircon, and pulled out the window frames,  paid for 28 hours

worked 2,  yeah no wonder shit in the uk is going to the dogs

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the only thing i can do with a welder is create holes :D

round bits need to be made to weld to the floor, but none of it is rocket science,

i just don't have the bits available to me, or good enough skills with a welder to attempt it myself,

should really get myself on a course at some stage

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right been a few days,

managed to get the floor in, and the earths done,

got the vents for the air con done and cut out underneath,

then got some of the pipe work in before the desk went back in,

 

fotos bitches

 

cab lifted to cut the vent holes underneath

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floor and some of the vent stuff in

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what!! desk back in

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all the wiring run back and up the wall ready to go back to the motor room junction box

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so yeah, not doing to badly, 

bad news is that some one scribbled out my penis picture :(

but i do have a kiwi pic that has survived :D

 

 

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well its been a while,

a whole load of hurry up and wait has been happening, i could have had the cab on well over a week ago, but they couldnt get the power car in the shed because other power cars were being worked on,

then when there was a free space, they discovered that there was rust that needed to be repaired,

which fucked me off immensely as it had been sitting there for 3 weeks,

 

then they wanted to get photos for a fucken rail magazine,

which was ridiculous as they had people who haven't even come near the cab pretending they were fixing something for a photo

 

so its been a very slack week or 2, with lots of lunch time finishes (paid for a full shift so shouldnt really complain)

 

any way cabs on so now i can do some wiring and get this piece running again

 

 

the team,

me with the ginger beard on the left, the faceless apprentice in the middle, and john the english fitter on the right,

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cab being lifted

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cab almost in place, with the apprentice and fitter inside trying to get the bolts done up

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so thats it, we got all the mounting bolts underneath and inside all lined up and torqued to a spec that we made up on the spot,  i think it was tight with a wee nip more, quite precise us :D

 

earth bond done up and thats it,  now its a few days of connecting the wiring to the junction box in the engine room, (very tiny space for a 110kg 6'4" kiwi to be jamming himself for a couple of days) 

then run all the non original wiring from the engine room back into the cab, and then the desk cover and the actual guages and what not can be fitted, 

my money is on they wont have the desk repaired,

 

but i have 3 weeks before i go on my euro motorbike trip, so they best be pulling finger if they want this fucken train done

 

 

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well its a train that has killed a couple of people,  once you'd  be forgivien for thinking it was an accedent .

but twice.. well a pattern is starting to emerge, 

308 is thomas's murderous cousin high on diesel and mere human souls :D

 

was that along the line of what you were thinking? or something else ?

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It's exactly what the above is, the Intercity 125. Fastest diesel train in the world @ ~145mph     (125mph design speed - hence the IC 125 designation)

 

Myself I'm all about the Deltic's....   geoooogh  *foam*  

(and the Pendolino's are pretty sweet too *schwing*)

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