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Managed to get the rest of the rims painted today. Ever notice, as soon as you set out something that is freshly painted all the flys in the country have to land on it ! WHY ? What it it about fresh paint that is so appealing ?

Not much of an update, managed to get one coat of antique white on the rims today before it started to snow !

Here are a few i have made in the past for my self and customers. Mercedes 1850L modified in to a 4x4 army style truck with home made transfer box. Volvo FH12 Another Volvo FH12 I like these Mercedes, this one had a second steering axle fitted and a scratch built dump bed made. This is the first truck i ever made for a customer. Volvo and fridge unit. My own Peterbuilt with working lights and sound. Total price with box trailer, around £1000. Last one. This is a bit of a work in progress. Scania bull nose, being made into a heavy haulage truck. You cant buy one of these, this has been built from a Tamiya kit to get the chassis, resin body kit from Germany and the rest made by me.

No, i usually go to the company who do the graphics for the full size trucks. They just rescale them for mine, works out much cheaper that way.

Just finished this for a local haulage company. Its a Tamiya 1:14 scale Volvo tractor unit, which has a 3 speed gearbox and electric motor and a scratch built trailer. Total length, 4 feet.

Got the rims back from the blasters today, much easier than trying to clean them up with sand paper and only cost £20. A quick dust down, knock a couple of dents out of the edge of the rim and a spot of primer to stop any rust from appearing. If it stops raining i might even get a coat or two of paint on them over the weekend.

Had a look at my belt guard, the bottom one is there but the top is missing. Another job to add to the list !

Im fed up running up and down to the local tyre company , so made my own tyre changer. All made from scrap lying around my workshop. The bead breaker works great. Pull bar was made from a bit of 3/4 sprung steel and the ball end is the lower part of a Borg warner gear stick.

Happy birthday. Ian isn't old, he's just a recycled teenager.

I think i would have quite long arms by the time i got home.

What parts are hard to get in the UK ? I already know that the rubber gear stick boots and Raider headlight lens are hard to get here. I have a trip to Florida coming up soon and plan to get a few parts to put in my suit case for the trip home. Much cheaper than paying the postage.

This topic might be of use. http://www.wheelhorse.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3065#p9198

Would you have a picture of the part you are talking about ? Thanks, Noel.

Picked these up today. The more complete one is a Ransomes 10 inch two horse plough and the other is a Pierce of Wexford 8 inch single horse plough. As the 8 inch Pierce plough has a lot of parts missing, i am going to convert it into something i can use behind the Wheel Horse. The Ransomes will be cleaned up, painted and set in my garden. I suppose you could class these as family heirlooms as the Ramsomes belonged to my grandfather and the Pierce was my great grandfathers. &

Forgot to ask, is the decal relevant to my model of Wheel Horse ? If so where does it go ?

Not much left to do now. Just need to get a new seat, paint the wheels, find a rubber boot for the gear leaver and a replacement headlight lens. If anyone knows where i can get the last two items please send me a pm.

Its Vapormatic paint. Im well impressed with it. You can put a heavy on and it doesn't run. The colour is the older International colour.

Managed to get some more paint today and sprayed the remaining parts. Top pip. If you are going to do a complete strip down, take LOT'S of photo's. I wish i had. There was a bit of head scratching went on when i was trying to reassemble some of the parts. Apart from that i got on fairly well today. Working with fresh paint is not fun, its so easy to inflict large scrapes with the slightest touch.

I was going well today until i ran out of paint and the supplier is closed for the holidays. Doh! so im going to have to wait another day or two to get everything finished off. Decided to start building what i had. Got on quite well, i think its looking good. Put the wheels on for now but they will be sent off to the bead blasters at a later date and finished off in an off white.

Eventually, parts are starting to turn red.

Thats a good looking wagon Chris, would there be any chance of a few dimentions, length, width, height, draw bar length, etc. I Would like to have a go at building a replica for myself. Thanks, Noel.

Thank you for the information. I wondered why the end of my bracket looked a bit rough.

It feels like i have been cleaning and sanding parts forever, but eventually got to the point where i could start to blow on some paint. Made a bit of a spray booth out of the frame of the gazebo and a couple of sheets. Didn't want the workshop covered in over spray. The Wheel horse now has something that it never had from the factory, primer!

Does anyone have any tips on a handy way to clean rust and corrision off the cooling fins without disassembling the engine and having it blasted. Thanks, Noel.