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[minimk1]

Went to stanford hall yesterday it was a great show with lots of autojumble so i got stuck in and brought some things my favorite stand was the one laid out on the floor and every thing was 1 pound from that i got 2 mk1 door locks, 5 old switches, a mk1 indicator stalk, a loverly curved mk1 interior door handle, 2 grease guns one is draper and a austin classic mini owners book. I also picked up a mk1 heater for 15 pounds which i am really happy with as it is in good condition but the lucas sign has been painted over anyone know where i could get a new one of these ? I will update pictures as soon as possable

Edited by minimk1, 19 September 2012 - 05:37 PM.

[minimk1]

update finally i have got round to uploading the pictures i have only a little more cutting and welding to do now before my rear valence is completly de-seamed what a long process , i have also made some neat repairs to the back of my car on the drivers side near the rear window and back of passenger window. my door mk1 hande door conversion now works completly all that needs to be done is welding up the pocket wholes, repairing the underneath and finally reskinig then i will have one comletly rust free converted lh door then ill start the other side!! i have decided to have the mk1 switch pannel in the middle insted of the mk3 one i will use the switches i have brought. the pannel will consist of; hazards, lights , heated screen and electric fan as i like the look of the mk1 pannel but would be too complex to change over all steering stalks and i will not have a heater pull out as i am going to replace that with an in engine bay mk1 tap which looks more simplistic in the engine bay. obviously the mk1 pannel is smaller than the mk3 so i will have to chop a section out of where the pannel is held.

went to minispares today and brought an oil cooler renenforcement pannel for copper s cars fitted with an oil cooler any info on where exactly this should go would be great.also regarding my roll cage i would like to have the rear seats in and for people to be able to use them but i do not want to compramise the strength of the roll cage are there any ways around this ?

problem with photobucket will edit this in the morning with the pictures it says out of memory at line 23 if anyone has had this problem or knows what to do it would be very helpful otherwise im going to end up deleting all unwanted pictures.

[rally515]

Looking forward to pics of your door convesion
Keep up the good work

Clifford

[minimk4]

no dont realy no if im going to keep the colour or go for a nice dark blue like them both,im not welding im getting a pro to do that for me

hahhaha really, i think you are a pro now

[minimk1]

no dont realy no if im going to keep the colour or go for a nice dark blue like them both,im not welding im getting a pro to do that for me

hahhaha really, i think you are a pro now

yeah that idea went down the drain when i realised i could weld and that i acctually really enjoyed being able to cut out rot and replace it for fresh metal. it also made me realise that i am going to take up fabrication when im older also got myself a nice little job cleaning up for a classic car specialist garage near my school they guys there are great and i look foward to when im old enough for them to tech me skills such as tig welding and full on fabrication work such as making a whole wing or fuel tank i havent updated in a while so will hopefully be sorting this out tomorow as i have done aot scince my last post such as replace the passenger floor, various repairs and the fitting of a door step my dad has also recently brought a volvo p1800 whci hneeds alot of work, also he has alot of ideas for the look of the volvo which will envolve me fabricating, should be a good point for learning really looking foward to putting my valance and wing on as my car will begin to look like a mini again. Any tips for putting the A pannel on will be much appriciated

[minimk1]

i have done so much since my last photo post and have about 100 photos to upload hopefully i should get round to doing it soon i have now got my wing welded on a pannel welded and bent floor pan in, door step on and sill on

Edited by minimk1, 05 January 2013 - 10:53 PM.

[minimk1]

found a few on photo-bucket that i haven't shown which concerns me as i did the work along time ago and i have don a hell of alot since then also pleased with how much my welding has improved since these pictures

[minimk1]

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forgot to mention that i also have a job at a top car restoration and fabrication place in kings langley high steet its called classic autos and although i only clean up at the moment a bloke called george taught me how to lead load last month and having a job means more money coming in that i can spend on my mini hope to have all the welding and roll cage in by next christmas also cant believe how long it has been since my last update my sealy welder packed up the wire feed is now so slow that it is difficult to weld i managed to find a clarke 150te welder for 75 pounds which is a bargin and i much prefer it for christmas i got an apple imac a bench metal folder and a welding trolly also managed to source some sheet metal from a place down the road where i got 3 sheets of of-cut a3 paper sized metal for 5 pounds think thats about it for this update i am going to upload pictures tomorrow i am going to take my laptop outside and update my topic whilst working on my car that way i don't waste a whole day uploading hundreds of pictures my sealy 130 mini mig is now up for sale the part need to fix the problem is £30 and i would provide the link for the part in with the listing i shall list it in the for sale section if anyones interested

Edited by minimk1, 05 January 2013 - 11:18 PM.

[PNL629G]

Good progress there! Are you keeping the internal hinges on your door conversion?

[minimk1]

yes i plan to bolt on external hinges for looks only but i will be testing that on my door before i re skin it i should update about 100 photos of my progress today as the lhs is completed

[PNL629G]

Great - look forward to seeing them!

[minimk1]

get ready for the pictures

[minimk1]

welding in the new floor

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