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#16 pickupmad87

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Posted 01 April 2012 - 03:28 PM

Nice project,what compressor are you using with your blaster?

not sure what size exactly its a big workshop one.

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Posted 04 January 2013 - 05:14 PM

right guys been a long time since ive been on here, been up to my eyes in work!!! finally got round to doin some work on it
drag the pickup from down the end of the workshop and decided to sandblast the bulkhead

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trying to catch as much as poss so it can be reused!
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Posted 04 January 2013 - 05:15 PM

all nicely blasted now time for a bit of primer!

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Posted 04 January 2013 - 05:15 PM

this will make you laugh have a look at this cross section of one of the rear wings!!!

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 05:01 PM

managed to get a bit more done today, welded in some extra bracing.

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then got the floor pan out and did some more welding grinding to the repairs

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going to finish grinding the welds off tomorrow(Yay!) then thats it till i get hold of a rear load bed
hopefully going to cambridge to have a look at a couple next weekend fingers crossed!!

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 08:47 PM

Right got a little bit of an update, should be going to cambridge this weekend to pick up a loadbay skin from minishells (YAY!!)
but i thought in the meantime ill get on and make a blast cabinet.

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hoping to get the arms for the gloves made and mounted tomorrow then let the blasting commence!

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 08:54 PM

looks great may i ask were you got your blaster & how much ?
And what tips/nozzels are you using ?

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 09:02 PM

the set up ive got in that is a syphon fed gun only cost bout 20 quid gunna see how it goes because ive also got a eastwood soda and media blasting tank i think that cost around about 150 quid

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 09:03 PM

the tip in the syphon gun is what ever it came with you get the gun from machine mart.

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Posted 20 January 2013 - 07:58 PM

right bit of an update managed to get over to see fred at minishells, and finally got my load bed floor!! so with that in mind we needed to clear some room so we could start laying out panels and start roughing out the fit of the loadbay to the floor pan.

so we did this:
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with the pickup in half and stashed in a corner we started laying out the panels and starting the trail fit

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we didnt manage to get the wheel arches, rear valance and h frame closing panels from fred so hoping to sort these out next week and then we can start getting everything lined up straight and welded together!

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 12:27 PM

I like the way you've approached this project, very confident! Luckily you've got the skills and the tools to see it through. Keep going!

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 07:20 PM

done it once allready with my dads pickup! theres a link to the thread on the first page!

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Posted 25 January 2013 - 08:25 PM

slight update this evening i set about making a jig for setting the height of the wheel arches on the new loadbed the jig was set up on our other pickup!
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Posted 25 January 2013 - 08:55 PM

Just read both threads again. Really nice work. Must be a big help doing the 2nd so soon after the 1st.

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Posted 25 January 2013 - 09:51 PM

yeh we learnt a helluva lot the first time round to make this one go a bit better




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