Lord Gruntfuttock Posted June 17, 2024 Posted June 17, 2024 8 hours ago, nzstato said: It’s a fun bit of electrochemistry just don’t be smoking or making sparks around the bubbles….. Mate lost his garage and contents thru such a setup. Quote
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted June 17, 2024 Posted June 17, 2024 Wombling Barry BBQ restoration. Weber Q a bit fucked from being run over at a campsite plus being left outside by the sea. Had spare exhaust paint and need a BBQ this weekend so gave it a go... 5 Quote
Popular Post Lord Gruntfuttock Posted June 17, 2024 Popular Post Posted June 17, 2024 And after cleaning everything else gave it an hr with the lid on outside at around 200 Dec C to cure paint, and reassembled. Looks pretty good... Would look mint in red caliper paint or with coat of hi-temp clear gloss, but that would mean spending money... 16 Quote
tortron Posted June 17, 2024 Posted June 17, 2024 11 minutes ago, Ned said: keen to see one in wrinkle paint A tin of BBQ black and a paint roller gives a nice hammer texture 1 Quote
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted June 17, 2024 Posted June 17, 2024 There's loads of Mericans painting these. Quite a few do them in sports teams colours for tailgate brews & beers... 6 Quote
tortron Posted July 7, 2024 Posted July 7, 2024 We need a new oven Why, what's wrong with it Numbers are all worn off. Should we get the $600 or the $700 one 1 Quote
Popular Post tortron Posted July 7, 2024 Popular Post Posted July 7, 2024 No I think it's fine (Some drift in the vinyl, can mainly see it in the Os, should be fine once I get the cutting mats, oh and i reversed some numbers...) 12 1 Quote
Popular Post Bearded Baldy Posted July 7, 2024 Popular Post Posted July 7, 2024 On 18/06/2024 at 07:37, Lord Gruntfuttock said: Would look mint in red caliper paint or with coat of hi-temp clear gloss, but that would mean spending money... Found a babyq at the tip and did it in ford blue engine enamel and lots of tire dressing on the plastics. Has held up quite well. 12 Quote
Popular Post HumberSS Posted July 7, 2024 Popular Post Posted July 7, 2024 All other project have ceased due to lots of distractions. Distraction number 1 has been the cnc plasma, which is an excellent distraction. However distraction number 2 has been my digger requiring one hell of a birthday. It was my old man's, I inherited when he died a few years ago. It had been running hot forever and his solution was to add an electric fan, which is kindof great as we got many hundreds more hours of work out of it. Anyway, inevitable happens and it finally released the smoke, so I found a Kubota ride on with the same little d722 3 cylinder diesel in it, @ThePog kindly collected from somewhere local to him, only 1200 hours on it which was perfect. The old motor was so farked. Cracked head, piston slap, run bearings etc. It actually still ran, surprisingly. So out with the old, in with the new Have then spent last 4 evenings and the weekend prepping and painting. Will blow a fresh coat on this week. The factory paint job was obviously shit as it was flaking and surface rusting very randomly. I'm hopinh it will come up a treat. 35 Quote
Popular Post Lord Gruntfuttock Posted July 7, 2024 Popular Post Posted July 7, 2024 That is super cool... ^ On the other end of the scale, I'm a leather Barry now. The ~ 15 yr old leather lounge suite was a bit fucked, stitching coming apart, heat, dirt, neglect, colour wearing off, holes. Didn't really take before pics but apart from damaged sections it pretty much looked like this... It's a good set though, reclining chairs you can sleep in and couch has pop up footrests so I wanted to save it. Started by buying a curved leather needle and upholstery thread, watching youtube on how to re-stitch things, and it came out ok... Then gave whole suite a good clean (bought a Pelle leather care kit). Sprayed it with liquid cleaner, brushed in small circles (I used a new soft shoe brush) and wiped with clean rags, so much grime came off. Then before applying the reconditioner cream I looked at addressing the colour and holes. Bought some bits from Temu, leather dye, filler and glue... Glued a small patch underneath the hole and filled with a flexible filler that takes colour apparently, seemed to go ok... and before and after... Then applied colour dye, just rubbed in with clean rags where needed, the dark brown was a good match, and let it dry overnight. This was first coat, I reapplied where necessary... Applied it in sections... Then rubbed in reconditioning cream liberally, it's dark & shiny here cos just applied but will soak in... Bloody pleased overall, pretty satisfying work, looks like a new one, and has passed furry thing approval... 22 Quote
Popular Post Vintage Grumble Posted July 7, 2024 Popular Post Posted July 7, 2024 21 minutes ago, Muncie said: Make sure the models don't smoke on it. If they start, he can just slow down. 4 14 Quote
h4nd Posted July 8, 2024 Author Posted July 8, 2024 18 hours ago, tortron said: No I think it's fine (Some drift in the vinyl, can mainly see it in the Os, should be fine once I get the cutting mats, oh and i reversed some numbers...) I think the O's are my fav part, sneaky 70s vibe going on for an otherwise boring/necessary appliance. Lifts it from just being a Tiida of cooking, amirite? 3 Quote
locost_bryan Posted July 8, 2024 Posted July 8, 2024 18 hours ago, tortron said: Is the temp dial labeled right? 50 - 100 - 140 - 180 - 250 - 235 - 220? Or is that some sort of Italian thing to change direction halfway round? Quote
tortron Posted July 8, 2024 Posted July 8, 2024 9 minutes ago, locost_bryan said: Is the temp dial labeled right? 50 - 100 - 140 - 180 - 250 - 235 - 220? Or is that some sort of Italian thing to change direction halfway round? Those were thr numbers I switched around. I changed them just after I noticed 3 Quote
zach_munce Posted July 8, 2024 Posted July 8, 2024 6 inch car speaker that I put in my hori spec sound system it’s dads turbo box with lots of tape to seal it with a maybe one inch port oddly works as a tweeter have put it in a sub box once for lols and it sounded alright for a speaker being used as sub (also ask me abt my sound system I like talking about it) 1 Quote
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