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[CityEPete]

just chuck all your nuts and bolts in a box, why anyone would do a full shell respray and then rebuild with old fixings always confuses me??

To keep things simple. I can't think on anything more mind boggling than trying to work out what type of hardness, thread type and length for all nuts and bolts on the car.

 
 

should take you around half a day to strip it to bare shell. 
 
just chuck all your nuts and bolts in a box, why anyone would do a full shell respray and then rebuild with old fixings always confuses me??
 
just have a spray around with penetrating fluid (not wd40) a few times a week for a couple of weeks before you strip it. are you doing it in ellesmereport?

These are usually the cars sold as unfinished projects, what about window winder screws bolts etc, dash board, fixings etc, screws for, various trim, all the under bonnet bolts that can be reused.
If I was looking to buy a project and was given a bucket of unlabelled fixings it would need to be cheap or only for breaking.
Photo, small bags, label, hand made diagrams for wiring connections etc, leave large sections together if possible and refurb them as one unit rather than lots of half finished jobs.

 
 
it's a mini, how many nuts and bolts do you think there are on the whole car?? i seriously doubt anyone has ever looked at their freshly painted shell and then looked at a box of fixings and gone "oh no...i don't know what they are all off,i'd best sell the car"

So you would replace things like the set screws for the window regulator and all the trim clips even if they are mint take out washers retaining various parts and not bother to note what went where. That's great if you have done hundreds of minis, as advice to someone asking about it for the first time I'd stick with labelling and photographing, that's why other people here who know their stuff are taking two days instead of half a day.

Edited by CityEPete, 31 May 2014 - 07:07 PM.

[ANON]

 

So you would replace things like the set screws for the window regulator and all the trim clips even if they are mint take out washers retaining various parts and not bother to note what went where. That's great if you have done hundreds of minis, as advice to someone asking about it for the first time I'd stick with labelling and photographing, that's why other people here who know their stuff are taking two days instead of half a day.

 

 

 

obviously reg screws etc won't need replacing. so do it with snappy sandwich bags and that probably adds another hour on to the total time. and you'd have loads of bags with about 4 nuts and bolts in them as well  

 

and i do "know my stuff" and can't see how on earth you could take two days to strip a mini, even with taking pics, labelling the loom and bagging fixings up. 

 

me and the wife stripped her 84 quattro from a driving car to bare shell with about ten bags of fixings inside a day. 

 

i'd even put my money where my mouth is as well and strip the op's car and bag and label just about everything for five hours labour .

[cal844]

Ive stipped lots of vehicles(not just mini's) and i always label ALL wiring wnich gets split!, and all nuts/bolts

[CityEPete]

So you would replace things like the set screws for the window regulator and all the trim clips even if they are mint take out washers retaining various parts and not bother to note what went where. That's great if you have done hundreds of minis, as advice to someone asking about it for the first time I'd stick with labelling and photographing, that's why other people here who know their stuff are taking two days instead of half a day.

 
 
obviously reg screws etc won't need replacing. so do it with snappy sandwich bags and that probably adds another hour on to the total time. and you'd have loads of bags with about 4 nuts and bolts in them as well  
 
and i do "know my stuff" and can't see how on earth you could take two days to strip a mini, even with taking pics, labelling the loom and bagging fixings up. 
 
me and the wife stripped her 84 quattro from a driving car to bare shell with about ten bags of fixings inside a day. 
 
i'd even put my money where my mouth is as well and strip the op's car and bag and label just about everything for five hours labour .

And I'm sure he would be chuffed, "here's your shell, and here's your bucket of bits" lol

[ANON]

 

And I'm sure he would be chuffed, "here's your shell, and here's your bucket of bits" lol

 

 

i draw your attention to the last line in the post you quoted  

 

 

 and bag and label just about everything

[Carvell]

If I wasn't excited about stripping the shell mysel I would take you up on the five hour offer :)

I'm thinking my budget is going to be stretched anyway so the plan is to refurbish parts rather than replace. However I will try my best to not have any rusty bits on show

[ANON]

where are you doing it by the way?

[CityEPete]

And I'm sure he would be chuffed, "here's your shell, and here's your bucket of bits" lol

 
i draw your attention to the last line in the post you quoted  
 
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It was a joke....

[Carvell]

Stoke :)

[ANON]

 

 

And I'm sure he would be chuffed, "here's your shell, and here's your bucket of bits" lol

 
i draw your attention to the last line in the post you quoted  
 
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 and bag and label just about everything[/size]

It was a joke....

 

 

i know, hence the wink and not calling you a big t@#t   

 

Stoke :)

 

 

was going to offer use of ramp and a hand if you were ellesmereport.

[Carvell]

Thanks for the offer, would have made things easier.

[Daviewonder]

Can you buy a full nut n bolt kit for minis? I'm sure you can for some old VW's

Would be good if you could. Anyone know of any?

[minbin 69]

 

Can you buy a full nut n bolt kit for minis? I'm sure you can for some old VW's

Would be good if you could. Anyone know of any?

 

A-series spares do 2 sets of mini in a box mk1/2 around £190 and the link below for £270 not sure of exactlys whats in there cause the price put them out of my reach..

 

http://www.aseriessp.../prod_1027.html

Edited by minbin 69, 31 May 2014 - 11:21 PM.