the showman

A lot closer to two more finished toys Chris. 
 

Now they are cleaned up with the grinder they will only need a skim, if i did them they would need 2 big tins. 

Nice job there chris ,big tin of pug now 😂

Both bonnets all welded up  and cleaned up, I’m so pleased with them I thought they were scrap at  the beginning.
Big thanks to my son Steve for his help.

Both bonnets all welded up  and cleaned up, I’m so pleased with them I thought they were scrap at  the beginning.
Big thanks to my son Steve for his help.

Both bonnets all welded up  and cleaned up, I’m so pleased with them I thought they were scrap at  the beginning.
Big thanks to my son Steve for his help.

Good work Chris. Kudos to both you and Steve.

Both bonnets all welded up  and cleaned up, I’m so pleased with them I thought they were scrap at  the beginning.
Big thanks to my son Steve for his help.

Both bonnets all welded up  and cleaned up, I’m so pleased with them I thought they were scrap at  the beginning.
Big thanks to my son Steve for his help.

Nice little chap, i like Border terriers 

Meet Oscar my new border terrier
 
 

Bonnet No2 gave me some grief as the blue paint wouldn’t move with paint stripper so i had to use a hot air gun and scraper and finally going over with a drill and sanding pad.
This afternoon Steve came down and got the new tin all cut and clamped  ready for welding. Looking good.

Bonnet No2 gave me some grief as the blue paint wouldn’t move with paint stripper so i had to use a hot air gun and scraper and finally going over with a drill and sanding pad.
This afternoon Steve came down and got the new tin all cut and clamped  ready for welding. Looking good.

Bonnet No2 gave me some grief as the blue paint wouldn’t move with paint stripper so i had to use a hot air gun and scraper and finally going over with a drill and sanding pad.
This afternoon Steve came down and got the new tin all cut and clamped  ready for welding. Looking good.

Nice work chris and steve

Bonnet No2 gave me some grief as the blue paint wouldn’t move with paint stripper so i had to use a hot air gun and scraper and finally going over with a drill and sanding pad.
This afternoon Steve came down and got the new tin all cut and clamped  ready for welding. Looking good.

Bonnet No2 gave me some grief as the blue paint wouldn’t move with paint stripper so i had to use a hot air gun and scraper and finally going over with a drill and sanding pad.
This afternoon Steve came down and got the new tin all cut and clamped  ready for welding. Looking good.

Bonnet No2 gave me some grief as the blue paint wouldn’t move with paint stripper so i had to use a hot air gun and scraper and finally going over with a drill and sanding pad.
This afternoon Steve came down and got the new tin all cut and clamped  ready for welding. Looking good.

Coming along nicely Ewan, nice work mate.

With hair.

Very nice work again  by Messrs Sutton Snr and Jnr. 

Next part of the rebuild was to fabricate a couple of parts. One of them was the part that the hood fastens to. 
 
This is the only picture I could find of this part so a bit of guess work was needed.
 

 

 
I made up a bit of a template to test fitting first.
 

 

 

 
Heres what I came up with. 
 
On the picture it looked like there was a piece of round bar welded on as a bit of a strengthener so I welded that on later.
 
Fortunately I had the original choke and throttle controls so fabricated the brackets for these from the photo.
 

 
 
 
 

 

 
All sorted out, looks just like to original so i'm happy with that
 

 
 
Last job was to make a battery tray, it didn't have one originally but Its more secure.
 

 

Quick little fabrication project. I repurposed this 3 wheeled walker thing that my grandad got his brother as a joke present . 
 

 

 
I didn't use any of the original tubing as it was quicker to use square stuff we already had. 
 

 
The bottle sits low down over the back wheels for stability.
 

 
The old adjustment knobs were used to attach the chain, works well.
 

 
For the novelty factor I used the handles  makes it easy to push around.
 

 

 
All finished, its proved very useful so fair when moving it between workshops! I might add some bars on the sides later to hold the welder and plasma cutter on properly. Works well enough without them though 

Got some shed time working on the red bonnet, I finished sanding off the last of the red paint and my son came down with the mig welder and offered to weld it up for me.
I went off to make the tea while he welded it up.
All done and I started grinding it up but its not finished yet, I don’t want to cock it up so I’ll wait for him to come back tomorrow but I’m well pleased with the progress. 

Team Sutton does it again !!