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[analogue_radio]

So I've finished University now and this was my Final Major Project, it was a self-negotiated brief so I could do as I pleased!

I decided to do something close to heart and something I am incredibly fond of.

One thing that always strikes me is the contents of peoples garages, I love thinking about the history and the nature behind the tools & the equipment, what hands they've been passed through, what engines they've worked on & how something as small as a 13mm spanner can amount to being largely responsible for assembling a car.

You can have a look at my project here:

My website.

There are photographs of the final thing and my rationale behind the project if you fancy a short read :)

Feel free to leave comments & also tweet it.

Cheers!

[Down&Out]

That is superb, for a moment i thought it was a photo of a real used parts manual! Looks so close.

Was it difficult to produce?

[analogue_radio]

That's the idea so I'm glad it almost tricked you!

It's printed on newsprint which is familiar to that of what some of the manuals I've got in the garage are printed on.

And as for the weathering and worn look, it only took me 4 days (I'd like to think it looks 40 years old). I bought a bag back with me to Uni full of dirty parts in the garage so I could get my hands grubby and thumb through it all.

As the newsprint is so thin one of the pages fell out, so it's been stapled numerous times and I've had to cellotape two pages together in the middle because they tore.. which you'd think would be a bad thing, but it just makes it look more worn!

I also posted it home to Dad as well so he could go through it and scribble notes down.

[Steely]

Thats a nice website :). Like the Lambretta!

[Artful Dodger]

wow, that is very, very impressive!

you can come over and catalogue or garage if you like

[gus88]

This is nice, I love the classic style of it.

[orangeboy]

very impessive, you have captured the look of an old parts manual perfectly

[Down&Out]

You can do one for me in future then ;)

[paul_s]

I love it Attention to detail isn't just in your build then! Have you documented all the nuts, bolts, bits of mini, etc in there as well or is it purely tools and stuff?

[analogue_radio]

Thank you all! Really nice to hear!

Paul_S, just the tools! I documented absolutely everything in the garage that my mini is stored in but I took half of it out for creative purposes.