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[Pauly]

Take a good look at your nice clean and tidy garage. Because it wont look like that ever again .

Good work mate, keep it up.

Paul.

[analogue_radio]

Cheers for the comments guys! can't begin to explain how chuffed I am & I can promise you it'll stay at tidy & clean as possible (or Dad will have a field day with me!) Not sure when the shelving is going up, but it will be soonish.. I'm then going to go through my parts and sort them into sections, nicely organised then

- Using on the project, cleaned.
- Using on the project, to be refurbished.
- Spares.
- For sale.

& any other small odd bits to be binned.

what you after for the wheels as i need new tyres and dont have a spare

Have a look in the Classifieds mate, price isn't fixed!

[Down&Out]

niiiiice . i got a huge great barn to work in but the problem is that its hardly shielded from the weather . nonetheless i cant complain. cant wait to see this take off

[AndrewJ530]

Garage looks amazing mate.

Now...progress please .

[Down&Out]

Yeahhh. Get on with it mister!

[analogue_radio]

Been busy today

Dad & I went in search of some shelving this morning, tried an ex army place but it seemed stupidly priced for what it was.. next we tried Machine Mart, quality! I got my hands on some of those locking sockets & a ball joint separator & Dad brought some shelving, pictures below somewhere

First of all I want to say how amazed I am with the locking sockets, all the nuts & bolts from the rear subby came off so easily! bar from one really really rounded & I can't get the socket in because its too close to the subby, so when I twist the socket just gets pushed off.. I'll figure it out, been left to soak in WD40.

Then whilst I was doing the above Dad started assembling the shelving units, moved all my gear out from the floor, shelves in place & then I sorted through all my mini stuff.. chucked some bits out straight away, which are no good to me or no good to sell. Then roughly collated everything in the right boxes, gonna buy some cheap clear plastic boxes so I can sort them out properly.

Brilliant day cheers Dad

[Down&Out]

subframes, in the state yours is in (which they always seem to be!) are evil to get off!. love the pictures, such high quality

[dezshearer]

Man those shelves *melonsing* rock!

Keep up the good work mate!

(You should get a roll matt and sleeping bag in there for friday nights, wake up on saturday right at the car, ready to work!!)

[TheBIGGERimage]

Man those shelves *melonsing* rock!

Keep up the good work mate!

(You should get a roll matt and sleeping bag in there for friday nights, wake up on saturday right at the car, ready to work!!)

Dezshearer - Spot on!

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

nice why dont you just angle grind the nut and the hammer the *illegitimate person* off i would

[sazal]

Oooo, thats a nice garage!

[AndrewJ530]

Haynes manual has pride of place with a shelf by itslef .

Like it!

[analogue_radio]

Haha, point all the appreciation towards my Dad as he's the mastermind behind the whole getup!

But yeah this is gonna be a top notch restoration, which means a tidy garage & everything done with patience & knowledge!

& I can't be arsed to do much today messy night out last night.

[1275 SPRITE]

Those sockets are the 'Irwin' ones aren't they, they are the same ones I use, they are amazing

[analogue_radio]

Yup they are the ones fantastic bit of kit! makes life 100x easier when you've got the right tools.

Stuck on this last bolt though don't want to end up drilling it out and re-threading it..