... Greg do your self a favour and get professional tuition on the subject before you waste your money. I don't know where you live but in NZ we have night...
Hello all of the above, I've phoned premier but they are on holiday, so if anyone can shed some light... According to the large green laminated sheet that came...
I made my own loom using Sierra switches and mine has 15. It is a black and brown wire that joins the two sides of the switchgear together to earth between...
That's really odd. I have a 31 on the switch on the other side of the column, but moulded into the switch itself, on the four socket plug for dip switch, are...
Newbee welder; Five or ten years ago the cheep as you call them "hobby welders" weren't much or very good. By today's standards they have improved a lot. My...
GO buy about 10' of the same tubing you intend to build with. cut it into 2" long pieces. Butt Weld them back into a couple reasonably straight 5' pieces When...
I'll add one more thing to what Kay said. That is get a welder that you can easily get serviced in your area, even on a Sunday if necessary. That seems to be...
Greg, Sounds like you are in the position most individual builders face at the start of their build, including myself. I attended a 12 week TAFE welding course...
... Pretty much what I did - 1. Make lots of practice welds until they look pretty much like they should. 2. Once you're at this stage, make some more, then...
Oops! Nearly forgot... Practice on different shapes and thicknesses of mild steel. Square and round tube, strip, sheet, etc. in 1.6mm and 3.0mm (most commonly...
Added to Simon's reply. the jamups seem to be more the wire than the welder. The other thing I will tell you is slow down ,you are not trying to see how fast...
amadeu pires wrote: can someone tell me that measure? please see temporary pic in "Photos" folder Amadeu, The measument for a car built to the book is 8". This...
amadeu pires" <vdesign@...> Subject: about propshaft in the book, page. 76 in certain line we read: Someone can explain me? What Ron is saying is: that...
Hello Iain You wrote ... If thats the Ocean View on the Mt.Mee road, two clubmans regularly blast past there. Two passed yesterday after a trip from the Gap to...
Well I saw them on my way back up the mountain after picking my daughter up from kindy ! So if it was you Hi ! Best wishes Iain ... From: John O'Reilly To:...
... Iain, The Locost_Theory list can be found at <http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Locost_Theory/>. It was set up to deal with exactly this sort of...
Paul, How is that Stalker coming along? Esko ... From: P.Herder [mailto:p.herder@...] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:52 PM To: locost@yahoogroups.com ...
Esko, First of all, your car is looking good! Hopefully mine will start looking better soon. I currently have it torn down to nothing to paint the frame. I...
My spray can paint did not stick very well either. Will have to do some touching up. Keep up the good work, your web page looks good. Esko ... From: P.Herder...
Hello All Does anyone out there have drawings for a front torsion/roll bar for a book Locost? I would really appreciate copies of a well sorted one. Am...
Hi Greg, I welded up my chassis using a MIG 150 machine bought from the local tool supermarket, but, I've years of experience fabricating/welding and was...
Esko Looks very nice. Like the mirrors and flyscreens. View down from rear of car has very 'classic' look, very nice. Rob Lane ... 27s+DSK+replica+S...
... I have a "cheap" TIG set that allows me to stick weld using DC - that, combined with good _DRY_ BOC welding rods, makes stick welding very straightforward....
A suggestion for finding a cheap welder on eBay: MIG welders are high demand in the USA at least, and get bid up accordingly. I found that searching on "wire...
Some of you may find this a little helpful. If someone like me sends a long URL and it line wraps and becomes useless, and you don't want to retype it all. ...
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