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[RichMPiBlue]

We started on the passenger window today and it was only the runners which needed adjusting. Mech was fine! Hopefully all goes well when it goes back together tomorrow. 

[Lplus]

Modified the headlight housings so the H4 headlight conversion units sit vertical instead of about 5 degrees anticlockwise (from the back)  No idea whether the light units were wrong or the housings were fitted to the new wings wrong by the previous owner.  Still the beam pattern should be right now.

[RichMPiBlue]

We started on the passenger window today and it was only the runners which needed adjusting. Mech was fine! Hopefully all goes well when it goes back together tomorrow. 

 

Passenger door fixed. However, the bloody strimmer in the garage fell on the mini wing and gave it a good ol' whack! Had to book it in with our repair/repray guy for October! 

[GT Jimmy]

Drove down through Cheshire along the A49 to the raven cafe, a gutbuster brekkie, then back to Manchester all before the wife and kids got up. They snooze they looze

[Midas Mk1]

Drove down through Cheshire along the A49 to the raven cafe, a gutbuster brekkie, then back to Manchester all before the wife and kids got up. They snooze they looze

Jealous! took mine to work 😂

[Designer]

My daughter took me and my wife to the pub by the Wey Canal for a bite to eat. First time my wife had been in the Mini for years.

Edited by Designer, 16 September 2023 - 04:08 PM.

[GT Jimmy]

Drove down through Cheshire along the A49 to the raven cafe, a gutbuster brekkie, then back to Manchester all before the wife and kids got up. They snooze they looze

Jealous! took mine to work

Haha, I don't get a Saturday off often so took the opportunity

[chuee]

Fitted the cheap alloy accelerator pedal cover to make it longer like the mpi. Then I  accelerated . Found perfomrance was the same overall. But my foot might like it on longer journeys.

Edited by chuee, 16 September 2023 - 08:05 PM.

[RichMPiBlue]

A great day out to Caffeine & Machine!

 

Edited by RichMPiBlue, 23 September 2023 - 05:57 PM.

[Midas Mk1]

love c&m 😍

[RichMPiBlue]

love c&m

 

There was a Jap event but we got loads of attention as we drove in, people taking pics and looking lol. A few minis turned up as well which was good. A decent place.

 

They've just opened another place up in Bedford as well. 

[GT Jimmy]

love c&m

ROAD TRIP!!

[AlexB]

 

New inner wing, and re-fitted the bulkhead support.

 

Not enjoying it much - really finding the welding hard as it's been decades since I last did any. Likely to come back and re-do this job once I've got the hang of it again.

 

[chuee]

 

 

New inner wing, and re-fitted the bulkhead support.

 

Not enjoying it much - really finding the welding hard as it's been decades since I last did any. Likely to come back and re-do this job once I've got the hang of it again.

 

 

 

Some practical moral encouragment  for you(not new advice, but I find most helpful when returning t owelding after a longish break).

Been there! I did manage to thoroughly enjoy it after a while (an I had a plenty to do of awkward repair welding too, and in visible places) , by telling myself to be in no hurry whatsover (no deadlines like by end of week), and take plenty of time setting up the job, then stopping there, and havin ga break even for an hour or more til l Ifeel good about it!

Then,  going to it with a slow walk,  and mustering like a champion all my senses, my awreness,  and staying like that without any hurry or wishing the job done... so E.G. I take time to adopt the best body postures at all times,  ensure best possible lighting, clamping, then try the angles and movement along the weld  without attempting to weld, then make adjustments to posture and accesse

If it takes a week or even two longer, so what.

 

All that helps immensly, over and above the setting of speed and amps, angle, distance... and it means no HURRY. IN that frame of mind,  practice weldss for settings aren't skimped either, and become a cinch.

 

Welds in general , use lots of tack welds before running over again , and then even, only short runs in order to offset problems of over-heating the metal, and  blow-throughs. Occasionally I do employ a copper strip behind a weld, like a beaten piece of copper tube, and always have it near me.

 

Going slowly like this at the beginning gets you quickly to confident and adaptable/responsive stage of ability.

 

I ownder if you are using MIG or tig or what?

Edited by chuee, 25 September 2023 - 11:58 AM.

[AlexB]

All good advice, thanks.

 

MIG - Clarke 130EN.

 

Cheers!