Ian

Morning chaps, the lathe saga continues.... But first..
 
 
 
 
With some rather big box in the power hacksaw thingy....
 

 
 
I had some thoughts about making a quick release system for the top pulleys to make changing speeds a bit easier...
I think I'm on the right lines here, it just needs to be stronger!
 

 
 
Once the box was sliced up it was welded to the bench and to the er.. big &rse hinge... I don't think it will move now
 

 
 
The start of the splash back... Use what you have I say
 

 

 
 
To give the splash back something to bolt onto a couple of lengths of small box was welded to the bench frame..
 

 
 
Before the splash back could be bolted on I had to make and fit a closing panel for the pulley end..
Starting with a panel cut from an old green shelf (thanks Rex ) which was firmly clamped to the bench..
I needed to bend a lip on it, so out came the long handle pliers type thingy for some gentle tweaking of the metal..
A gentle bend up only part way, then move a long a little.
 

 
 
Which gives you this... Tweak it right the way along of course..
 

 
 
Then go back and do a second and third gentle tweaking until the lip is bent up all the way along..
Hammer and dolly time..
Using the edge of the dolly first to tidy up the "tight" bend..
 

 
 
Then along like this to tidy up the flange..
 

 
 
A quick buzz with the sander tidied up most of the hammer marks..
 

Now I can see what he looks like.
 

Opened the workshop today and found a squatter. Had the cheek to complain that his bed was hard.
 

 
He wanted some breakfast, so I told him to go catch his own.
 

Now your making me feel old Chris, I wasn't born when your racing licence was issued

Aren't they just awesome machines to watch , makes me want to go and take mine for a cruise .

Great Horses! Enjoy watching your videos, excellent!

Now your making me feel old Chris, I wasn't born when your racing licence was issued

Hard paper round.

Found my old Spedeworth race license, i think the photo is a bit out of date now. 

Many Happy Returns Ian, hope you have a good one, and many more

Happy birthday Ian, best wishes and I hope you have a great day.
 
Iain

Happy birthday Ian!  Make it a great one! 

Happy birthday young man, have a good one

Happy Birthday Ian.   Have fun.

Happy birthday mate 

All the Best, Ian. Have a good day.

Happy birthday mate!

Happy birthday    

Happy birthday Ian, hope you have a good day mate. 

As some of you will know Nigel bought a Wheel Horse GT-14 the other week, quite why he is not sure, I just think Nigel wanted to copy me
 
A few photo's from Nigel's first drive..
 

 

 
 
A good place to park
 

 
 
Nigel insisted that I had a drive to see what I thought, and of course Nigel blamed me for the "cough cough splutter" as the engine started to run badly and then cut out
Lot's of swearing followed by a carb clean out, a coil and fuel pump swap and eventually fitting a one way valve to the fuel line to help the pump prime (the replacement fuel pump is a bit lazy too) and the GT was back into life..
 
Oh, Nigel did make a new exhaust for the GT, but as the only way to fit it was to drop the front axle off we shall gloss over it
 
So... What do you do if you have two running and driving GT's???   You go for a drive of course
 
 

The sharp eye'd will of noticed a bit of pully damage on the electric motor..   I did try to get the pully off with a puller, but this just caused more damage..
As luck would have it the middle pulley is the right size and it also has no damage, so that's what I will use..
 

 
 
Time to fire up the Mig... I think that should be strong enough
 

 

 
 
Clamped onto the bench.. Yep, that looks good
 

 

 
 
I wasn't sure the bit of box that holds the motor adjust up was strong enough, so it got strenthened   Looking at the photo I need to tidy it up a bit and plate over the hole..
 

 
 
Other than cutting an extra leg ( yes that is 2 bit's of WH chassis weled together!) for the bench, that's as far as I've got... Next on the hitlist is to make a quick release tensioner thingy for the top belt..
 

The sharp eye'd will of noticed a bit of pully damage on the electric motor..   I did try to get the pully off with a puller, but this just caused more damage..
As luck would have it the middle pulley is the right size and it also has no damage, so that's what I will use..
 

 
 
Time to fire up the Mig... I think that should be strong enough
 

 

 
 
Clamped onto the bench.. Yep, that looks good
 

 

 
 
I wasn't sure the bit of box that holds the motor adjust up was strong enough, so it got strenthened   Looking at the photo I need to tidy it up a bit and plate over the hole..
 

 
 
Other than cutting an extra leg ( yes that is 2 bit's of WH chassis weled together!) for the bench, that's as far as I've got... Next on the hitlist is to make a quick release tensioner thingy for the top belt..
 

The sharp eye'd will of noticed a bit of pully damage on the electric motor..   I did try to get the pully off with a puller, but this just caused more damage..
As luck would have it the middle pulley is the right size and it also has no damage, so that's what I will use..
 

 
 
Time to fire up the Mig... I think that should be strong enough
 

 

 
 
Clamped onto the bench.. Yep, that looks good
 

 

 
 
I wasn't sure the bit of box that holds the motor adjust up was strong enough, so it got strenthened   Looking at the photo I need to tidy it up a bit and plate over the hole..
 

 
 
Other than cutting an extra leg ( yes that is 2 bit's of WH chassis weled together!) for the bench, that's as far as I've got... Next on the hitlist is to make a quick release tensioner thingy for the top belt..
 

A bit more work has been done on the lathe, I needed to find a way of mounting this rather big motor mounting bracket..
 

 
 
A bit of big box with a slit later sort of thing..
 

 
 
The bit of big box slot's into the chassis like so.. It does need to go higher up..
 

 
 
But some plonker had dumped a big elecric motor in the way!
 

 
 
Checking the pulleys line up. 
 

 
 
Not fully welded up yet, just a check to see if everything lined up as it should.... It does
 

 

 
 
Now to find a way of adjusting the motor to pully belt... This will come in handy
 

 
 

oh FFSake , that's disappointing , I know you and Nigel have been fettling with this patiently and it really sucks to get to this point of the resto to end up with a major problem like this , fear not guys I have a few extra engines that I could use , give me a little time and I will get something down to you , hopefully this will solve the problems and we will get to see Junior running around shortly 
thanks for all your efforts Nigel ,Ian  I do appreciate what you have done . Hugs n kisses