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Post by greedy53 on Sept 26, 2010 17:04:26 GMT 10
talk about spooke I was only talking to an old friend a few days ago , he is wheelchair bound and is doing the caravan thing only at the back where he is fitting a tail lift from a vw van,its only on paper at the moment but a good look at the van looks like a goer
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Post by greedy53 on Sept 26, 2010 7:05:35 GMT 10
nearly forgot to puti n a pic of the tow van, i found this in a front yard and after a good look and finding nearly no rust or dents i offered him $500 and a deal was done,trailered it home and found that it just would not start ,so a call to the seller who told me that the motor was not very old and the reason it was under the tree was that when they finally got it started it only run on 2 pots but thats another story as to why
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Post by greedy53 on Sept 26, 2010 6:20:10 GMT 10
Back up to this point it's been pretty basic weld ,brush ,paint ,now we get to the part that i like the most,making the shape .Now i didn't know that there were so many shapes to copy, my needs kinda made some useless for me as i needed 1 to store all the things that my wife declared a must have the stand alone anex for the kombi van was a no boner but the folding cubords wash stand microwave lcd telly dvd player,pots,pans; bbq ect,oh and the base matting for under the tent bit, table for inside and another for outside,there was a stage when i started thinking that a b double mite be the go. A shape was decided on and it would let me use it as a sleeper for when thee grand kids come along using a very fine blade in the jigsaw made it easy to use the cutout the door hole and use the cutout as the door,i cut the door the same shape as the van a mild slope at the back and both front corners rounded,this was going to leave a flat section between the top and bottom corners and i knew that this was going to cause me a bit of bending trouble I was going to use a a bit of ply of cut to shape and fit when it came time to put the roof on. stay tuned
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Post by greedy53 on Sept 24, 2010 17:40:43 GMT 10
well a bit more done and it looks like being a 3 ft 8 inch wide and 7ft 6 inches long,i used decking timber because i had it under the house my wife reminded me it's treated so should be ok,and i sealed and oiled before bolting it to the frame on top of that is a tar based paint just a bit more protection. at this point i moved it to a small covered place between two sheds not much room,who am i kedding there is no bloody room but i have learnt to walk sideways like a crab when i priced the hard wood ply i wanted i had a stroke, so back to the drawing board and a few phone calls later i found a used timber and other stuff but they had the hard wood ply that was taken from a indoor gocart track so it was well seasoned and compacted,cost $20 each so i went away with 3 one went on the floor and i spent the time making sure it was square, so thats it for now i will be back starting to get into it now wish the darling wife she reads this would release more funds but i'm doing ok so won't complin so far the cost is $62.00 stay tuned
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Post by greedy53 on Sept 23, 2010 17:19:20 GMT 10
no the little rod has been sold i had it for 4 years and just tryed everything on it i supercharged it using a toyota 12 and it just had to uch grunt nearly had a few bad tangles ,the rod was so light and the motor was very torquie it just had to go mind you the thing with just a 1641 was no sloutch. well back to the build so far i still have 2-3 fingers that work,just well i moved ontothe extra steel to beef it up using old bed rails and bits and pices that i had laying around while this was going on i had a good look at the axel who ever built it sure new his stuff ,it looks like ordinary stubs were welded into a pipe and the bearings still spun freely after all the years and some of them in the bush behind my mates place So moving on i asked my suffering wife could i have some money to buy stuff,the glaring look and and snickering kinda left me wondering if i had asked wrongly,although the deal was i could have a few bucks if all else failed ,i wanted to paint the trailer in cold gal but no money so i scrounged around and found my old red lead paint , i'm not sure if it's legal or not but i'll plead insanity if asked due to the red lead fumes should work, anyway i painted it and than asked for oney again so i could buy some timber to bolt to the frame ready for the floor , dam kids need me stay tuned
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Post by greedy53 on Sept 23, 2010 7:48:00 GMT 10
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Post by greedy53 on Sept 23, 2010 7:13:59 GMT 10
thanks i will start soon as i need to get the pics in order
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Post by greedy53 on Sept 22, 2010 18:37:17 GMT 10
what section would be best to use for a teardrop build thread with pics
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Post by greedy53 on Aug 23, 2010 20:12:03 GMT 10
thanks for the info and yep still got low lite and a high light girlfriend for him
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Post by greedy53 on Aug 23, 2010 15:34:41 GMT 10
do you wet masanite to bend i'm not sure what to use the masanite or ply any advice would be helpful i'm building a tear drop an older copy steve
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Post by greedy53 on Jul 29, 2010 19:59:02 GMT 10
are you the sharpie that has a joeann as a partner steve
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Post by greedy53 on Jul 24, 2010 20:39:06 GMT 10
i am very interested in the small van,while i was workng for ray maguire he would often mention the little van i asked him once how old it was but never got a definate answer,the idea of working on the little van i think would bring a grin on his face but seriously i don'r think i could affords it anyway,but whoever get it from this groop will do it justice steve (greedy53)
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Post by greedy53 on Jul 19, 2010 18:09:00 GMT 10
for the life of me i can't get the picture help?
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Post by greedy53 on Jul 12, 2010 19:43:27 GMT 10
what can you say dribbel dribbel
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Post by greedy53 on May 17, 2010 17:53:39 GMT 10
i have bought a second hand one ,a stand alone annexe it's around an 80's era nearly new trouble is it dosen't have the bar that links it to the van gutter the van is a kombi so i'm trying to find out the shape profile or sail track the annex has a rope sowned in it but it seems to small for sail track the bloke i got it of told it was his dads and he had gone to a be4tter place and took the secret with him steve
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Post by greedy53 on Mar 25, 2010 19:27:02 GMT 10
i just love that model out of all the holdens and i don't really know why
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Post by greedy53 on Mar 25, 2010 19:18:45 GMT 10
1 for me please
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Post by greedy53 on Jan 7, 2010 17:37:50 GMT 10
cobber i'm in camden and i haven't seen that at all good to know there is another vv here
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Post by greedy53 on Nov 28, 2009 14:21:54 GMT 10
santa arrives and i'm nowhere near ready, had a bit of bad luck myself mate lost 2 jobs out of 3 sad but up with the chin and stager onward happy xmas
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Post by greedy53 on Oct 20, 2009 12:56:45 GMT 10
sorry but i just couldn't resist ,but it was a great day and as for camping i don't know most unlikely there were vehicles from all areas of the motor driven items, cars,trucks.army, dozers, old pop pop engines a train ride and everyone was so helpful .one lady was so helpful that at one stage i thought i had to shoot her to get away.a true australian day out no wonder i love this country
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Post by greedy53 on Oct 18, 2009 15:59:15 GMT 10
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Post by greedy53 on Oct 17, 2009 15:52:54 GMT 10
i just use the transporters of ebay ,if you do a serch for transport there are quite a few that do nearly kind of moving stuff, i have had a few jobs done and am very happy with cost and condition
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Post by greedy53 on Sept 8, 2009 19:08:18 GMT 10
hi i mite have a bit of an idea, i am a member of a men's shed these groups will love to have a yarn with you . most are retired blokes from many fields wood and steel most of these guys can still do the stuf that is nearly forgotten .teh shed are in most areas and a bit of a serch will usually find them good luck steve
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Post by greedy53 on Jul 14, 2009 17:46:03 GMT 10
stickers are here very coooooool thank you
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Post by greedy53 on Jul 4, 2009 17:34:47 GMT 10
love them all and the rancho has my family mane on the plate
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