Further tales from the Druid's workshop

[V8Druid]

one for the pipe line boys ... wet weather tent - drop it on the pipe and chuck a tarp over it

made loads of these for the timber frame guys ... lifting deck for lifting wall panels to a fair way up on a multi story build (they did blocks of flats in timber frame [and steel ] ) had about 20 in all, all proof load tested in the yard and cert.ed

remember the 90 Defender ... with the bonnet full .. the start of the transplant ...

the hat is a baker's cap .. bought a couple of hundred of 'em at a sale once - for a quid - no one wanted 'em ... were great for under stuff - kept yer head clean and just bung 'em in the wash
and the lump, getting a wash with the steamer

SD getting 'attention' .. IIRC it was one of my Vitesses which'd gone past its use by date getting gutted for a transplant into a better shell

clutch pedal removal .... all the bracketry was in every shell - just needed relocating into position to replace an auto set up (which the vast majority of SD,s were -- hardest part was sliding all the circlips along the extended 3 pedal pivot spindle...
there were several to move simultaneously -- would love to know how BL did it, although was probably out on a bench as an assembly, 'fore getting installed in the shell - sod taking the whole thing out - lorra work .. just change the spindle and pedals, then add a master cylinder
(I've taken so many of these to bits I could do it in the dark, back in the day, - could probably manage most of one tomorrow TBH ) they were a very easy vehicle to work on (when you knew your way around them)

and that's it for this thread .................. 'til I next venture into the attic

 

[TiltyShaun]

found a few more pix in a draw this morning ...
regularly came in to this sort of scene ...
truck drivers bump stop parking
ba***rds used to cost me a lot in time repairing the boundaries .... 'til I parked a load of concrete test weights along the boundaries out side in the car park, when I replaced the fence with 8ft palisade ..
Council were always on at me to move them ..
" you pay for the repairs, or stop the trucks parking there, other wise the concrete blocks stay "
were one of the last things I moved when I cleared the yard
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and this one was as I was coming out one evening to get in the run around Granny .. would've clobbered the car and been in the yard if I hadn't been yelling at him to stop -- tosser!!
had one one night, was 8ft into the yard, had gone up over the kerb and was parked on top of the fence panels he'd just mowed down and run over - absolute w .. not fit to be driving a roller skate
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mentioned this lump somewhere earlier .. the press shop we regularly installed gear in sent me this pic and asked if I thought we could get it into their shop (was taller than the roof structure's internal bracings) ...
so after it'd had a bit of a refurb and tidy up, it duly arrived for installing ... after we'd pulled several bracings out, to upright it and then re-installed them around the Rhodes, once we had it in its final position
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and --- a little bit of a head scratcher ...
had to be completely CKD as access was 'difficult' round the back of a very nice house for a balcony to garden access .. handrail infill was all decorative and the customer wanted 'larger than normal' treads, hence the shallow pitch, so was easier to 'mock it up' in the shop and be sure of it all being 'cock on', rather than spend hours drawing it all ... looked great installed having lugged all the bits into place and assembled it all .. I'm hoping I have some pix, but not come across them yet
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Does the client get to choice the paint finish or was you like Mr Ford?
“You can have any colour you like as long as it is @V8Druid tish brown!!”

 

[Gecko]

The car is older than I thought

 

[V8Druid]

The car is older than I thought

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LOL .... that's me building keys ... ign is still in the column

 

[JD450A]

The car is older than I thought

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I didn't know British Leyland where about in the steam Era

 

[Lancs Lad]

I didn't know British Leyland where about in the steam Era

I was trying to figure out if that was a Benson and hedges smouldering in the centre armrest or what ?

 

[V8Druid]

I was trying to figure out if that was a Benson and hedges smouldering in the centre armrest or what ?

hah .. looks like a bit of placcy sheet to me .... the Royals are in my right breast pocket with my lighter

 

[V8Druid]

Does the client get to choice the paint finish or was you like Mr Ford?
“You can have any colour you like as long as it is @V8Druid tish brown!!”

HBZP Grey Oxide usually, unless something else was requested .. rarely did more than prime

 

[V8Druid]

just tripped over a vid from the w/shop strip out, that me mate Doug, Monaro man, took - thought it might be of interest to some .. and a few pix .
as you may be able to tell I'm struggling with 'sitting about - doing sod all'

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10202385805024391

h ttps://www.facebook.com/carol.griffithshiley/videos/10202385805024391 ( remove the gap between the h at the start of this - wouldn't show up in this post, without altering the addy )

32t of 320t cap. press brake - it went in in one piece 2 cranes, skates and several pairs of hands .. worth more in scrap than I'd been bid on it, so came out in bits for the skip
stripping the tooling out - that multi vee bottom was 150 quid a foot when I bought it (12 footer)

couldn't find a buyer for any of the tooling - sadly went in't skip -- 'bout 8-9k's worth to buy - should've put the saw through the shiny ones into 4 foots and kept 'em

top cover plate off ready to start stripping

top beam off

lower apron coming out of its 3 ft pit, I'd had to dig out and cast into the floor when I bought the Bronx

took the machinery deck/platform's weight with the 4t Hyster and unbolted an end frame, laid it down and skated it out the door

machinery deck

and up the yard to lift into 40 yarders

took some getting in and getting off the deck after

 

[CPS]

just tripped over a vid from the w/shop strip out, that me mate Doug, Monaro man, took - thought it might be of interest to some .. and a few pix .
as you may be able to tell I'm struggling with 'sitting about - doing sod all'

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10202385805024391

h ttps://www.facebook.com/carol.griffithshiley/videos/10202385805024391 ( remove the gap between the h at the start of this - wouldn't show up in this post, without altering the addy )

32t of 320t cap. press brake - it went in in one piece 2 cranes, skates and several pairs of hands .. worth more in scrap than I'd been bid on it, so came out in bits for the skip
stripping the tooling out - that multi vee bottom was 150 quid a foot when I bought it (12 footer)
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couldn't find a buyer for any of the tooling - sadly went in't skip -- 'bout 8-9k's worth to buy - should've put the saw through the shiny ones into 4 foots and kept 'em
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top cover plate off ready to start stripping
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top beam off
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lower apron coming out of its 3 ft pit, I'd had to dig out and cast into the floor when I bought the Bronx
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took the machinery deck/platform's weight with the 4t Hyster and unbolted an end frame, laid it down and skated it out the door
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machinery deck
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and up the yard to lift into 40 yarders
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took some getting in and getting off the deck after
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Gosh i wish yiu had kept that tooling in 4ft lenghs 🫣

 

[V8Druid]

Gosh i wish yiu had kept that tooling in 4ft lenghs 🫣

me too Aiden ... but .. couldn't keep it all

 

[Stroppymonkey]

just tripped over a vid from the w/shop strip out, that me mate Doug, Monaro man, took - thought it might be of interest to some .. and a few pix .
as you may be able to tell I'm struggling with 'sitting about - doing sod all'

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10202385805024391

h ttps://www.facebook.com/carol.griffithshiley/videos/10202385805024391 ( remove the gap between the h at the start of this - wouldn't show up in this post, without altering the addy )

32t of 320t cap. press brake - it went in in one piece 2 cranes, skates and several pairs of hands .. worth more in scrap than I'd been bid on it, so came out in bits for the skip
stripping the tooling out - that multi vee bottom was 150 quid a foot when I bought it (12 footer)
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couldn't find a buyer for any of the tooling - sadly went in't skip -- 'bout 8-9k's worth to buy - should've put the saw through the shiny ones into 4 foots and kept 'em
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top cover plate off ready to start stripping
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top beam off
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lower apron coming out of its 3 ft pit, I'd had to dig out and cast into the floor when I bought the Bronx
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took the machinery deck/platform's weight with the 4t Hyster and unbolted an end frame, laid it down and skated it out the door
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machinery deck
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and up the yard to lift into 40 yarders
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took some getting in and getting off the deck after
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Must be bittersweet going through those.

 

[V8Druid]

Must be bittersweet going through those.

yes - at the time I was still recovering from my first bout of pancreatitis and the subsequent diagnosis of my Gaucher's disease, which'd caused the initial pancreatitis hospital admission in the first place, plus starting treatments, etc. for that -- wasn't really 'up to' some of what I got up to - but 'needs must' and I had a completion date to meet, for the sale of my yard. There was a hell of a lot I should've kept, in hindsight, but at the time I didn't think I'd ever be doing much again and as said - couldn't keep it all I'd amassed some collection of stuff/kit/cuminfas over 30 odd years

 

[Stroppymonkey]

yes - at the time I was still recovering from my first bout of pancreatitis and the subsequent diagnosis of my Gaucher's disease, which'd caused the initial pancreatitis hospital admission in the first place, plus starting treatments, etc. for that -- wasn't really 'up to' some of what I got up to - but 'needs must' and I had a completion date to meet, for the sale of my yard. There was a hell of a lot I should've kept, in hindsight, but at the time I didn't think I'd ever be doing much again and as said - couldn't keep it all I'd amassed some collection of stuff/kit/cuminfas over 30 odd years

So the fact you have done so much since must be a bonus

 

[V8Druid]

So the fact you have done so much since must be a bonus

yeh - absolutely Ben - never dreamt back then that I'd be able to do anything much - I am VERY lucky that I do not suffer a lot of the possible effects of Gaucher's - VERY lucky

 

[kabin man]

Needs some druid skills...

https://ebay.us/m/VHWchn

 

[V8Druid]

Needs some druid skills...

https://ebay.us/m/VHWchn

gonna need Sooty's magic wand and a bag of 'Ooffle dust' to do much with that --- and VERY deep pockets
those Quad 48s are worth a few quid on their own TBH .. but he's dreaming with the asking, to all but serious SD nuts ... I love them - but not that much and'd wanna be a std Vitesse to tempt me to spend serious money on one - that'd only ever be worth those levels of wedge, fully sorted and pristine - 's a bitsa
could also be tempted by a mint 2.8 XR4x4i - real driver's car too

 

[sfrs4]

ok, so I'm going to bite, what's on the racking to the left in the first picture, I see spaceframe and bike engine?

 

[V8Druid]

ok, so I'm going to bite, what's on the racking to the left in the first picture, I see spaceframe and bike engine?

one very bored Crimbo shutdown, maaany years ago - never got round to finishing it - sat on that rack for a looong time

XS750 Yammy triple, Rover P6 diff, with the nose tube shortened to now't, Princess suspension arms all round, 4 pot callipers all round and hydrogas suspension. Five pedals - L-R .. clutch, front brakes, rear brakes, conventional brakes all round, throttle -- lock the fronts and still give it death or lock the backs/de-clutch and still be able to steer
one day it might get finished -- currently sat in a donkey box in the dry -(ish)
the rack took some creating/modifying and had considered 4 wheel steer too - hence the back end isn't locked up (yet)

 

[Lancs Lad]

one very bored Crimbo shutdown, maaany years ago - never got round to finishing it - sat on that rack for a looong time

XS750 Yammy triple, Rover P6 diff, with the nose tube shortened to now't, Princess suspension arms all round, 4 pot callipers all round and hydrogas suspension. Five pedals - L-R .. clutch, front brakes, rear brakes, conventional brakes all round, throttle -- lock the fronts and still give it death or lock the backs/de-clutch and still be able to steer
one day it might get finished -- currently sat in a donkey box in the dry -(ish)
the rack took some creating/modifying and had considered 4 wheel steer too - hence the back end isn't locked up (yet)

Now then, that! Would be a laugh.