Good work Madmorrie
good to see a bit of progess

A fair bit of work on those brakes but it'll be worth it

Well done
Cheers Hallsey

Nice work. Will be a huge step to get the brakes sorted.

Very jealous of your workshop by the way!

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Hey MM,

Nice use of the lathe to do some horizontal milling.

Mate, good work, and any forward progress is good progress.

Cheers,
Tricky

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Thanks guys.

Yeah Tricky, it took some messing, but a bunch of bits bought off ebay have it sorted. Near as I can tell the lathe is around 100 years old, possibly originally treadle powered, so to be able to buy some cheap chinese tooling and get it to do some light milling is pretty cool. I still need to put a new chuck on it for bigger lathe work cause mine is out of whack, but the collet chuck I bought is working great for small stuff. Next item is a billet alternator mount.

Cheers
Madmorrie

Go for it MM.

Sometimes making the tools and uprating the equipment is as much fun as building the car. Cant wait to see it in the flesh.

Cheers,
Tricky

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Well, I have tried to be busy over the break. Haven't got it on the rotisserie as I had hoped, but as of now it's half together for a final test fit.
I'm thinking I may put the whole thing together as is and get it running, then I can test it a little, then pull it down for the bodywork.

After months of mucking with trying to mill the alternator mount from a lump of alloy, I finally gave up and made it in steel, in one day. Stick to what you know people, it's faster...

The upshot of it is now my old lathe can mill, and when my alt mount distorted with the welding, I was able to just face it off to sit the alt nice and true.

I got a flaring tool the other day to do the hard lines. Last night I got the clutch line finished and couldn't resist testing it. The first system on the car that I can actually confirm works. Good test of my flaring skills as well. Bleeding the clutch by myself at midnight last night wasn't the easiest but it does work, very heavy but no leaks.

Sorry no pics, forgot the cable.

Did anyone find another slave cylinder to lighten the pedal yet?

Madmorrie

Good to see Progress MM, Let the snowball begin

Cheers Hallsey

From memory Josh found that the Australian Starlet's were fitted with a 7/8" slave cylinder which helps.

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Finished the spit so I can start on the body work. Thankfully this one is pretty sound (that's why I bought it), but there are still a few little nasty patches, plus a few more areas to mod.
I'm actually looking forward to this bit for some reason. Ask me again in a month or so...



Well, I want to be driving this baby next summer so better get cracking.

Good work Madmorrie

That rotisserie sure looks better than my double bed mattress

Next summer sounds the goods

Chers Hallsey

Ha, It's some scrap shed trusses I pulled off hard rubbish, an old antenna mast a mate gave me and some other bits and pieces I had laying around. Seems to work OK though.

Ingenuity at it's finest

Cheers Hallsey

Necessity is the mother of invention!!

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Well, the body work is ongoing, but I'm happy with the progress so far. I've welded up lots of miscellaneous holes and a patch over the shifter hole and I've started on the major rust in the drivers footwell. I am loving the rotisserie, it its so helpful for this stuff.

Anyway, pics will tell the story...



























I love how little warping you get with the oxy. It is probably slower than a mig, but more forgiving. I don't have a pic of this ground back but it looks good and I've started on the outer panel which covers this. Then I have to do the engine bay side of this triple skin rust trap...

Very nice MM
impressive panel making i must say.

I'm a bit worried about the scalpal if things are'nt going right

Good to see the build progressing

Cheers Hallsey