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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1530 on: February 27, 2011, 08:22:28 PM »
I painted the truck on Saturday, in my long and illustrious career of high end auto-finishing this was a significant landmark.......

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Doc, what nap roller did you use?   Did you use a quality brush in the tight spots....  :-D
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1531 on: February 27, 2011, 08:46:47 PM »
  No, it was a rattle can and ya he's mastered the can shaking :wink:

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1532 on: February 27, 2011, 09:17:29 PM »
 The Colonel and I were looking at a friends 34 Ford pick up rod.....he said " yeah, the paint huh, I haven't got a good spray gun ,matter of fact , I haven't got a spray gun at all....it's the one at the back.....


I reckon he'd painted it with a 4 inch brush too......but I've gotta say that was four years ago and we saw it last week , and it looks like it's fresh out of the show-room........

Anyway, back to amateur hour. There are any number of pitfalls in the drive-way spray job....just as I mixed up my first pot full... on the ground of course , my phone rang.......I looked at who it was and elected not to answer( long story)...this distracted me long enough for me to forget what I was doing and not screw the needle control knob into the gun. I took the top off the pot and poured the color into the gun( a gravity)....from where it promptly poured straight out of the tip and into the case for the spray gun.....no I didn't see it because I was concentrating on the pouring job , the paint was obscured by the pot and body of the gun, it was when I heard the splashing sound sound that my ears pricked up.....great, good start.

For once I didn't knock the new can over with the air hose, drip paint out of the air hole all over the job , trip over the air line or use gun wash instead of thinners in a coat , nor did I somehow attract a million insects on a suicide mission seconds after the first coat has gone on, but I did manage to get some over spray on one of the wheels....just to keep the look right.


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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1533 on: February 28, 2011, 08:59:30 PM »
Word just in from the Colonel by way of a scratchy mobile phone convo that the heads are on , the rockers are on, the one piece rods we used last year are just right and the motor will do a full revolution without anything getting in the way of anything else....

We need to upgrade the oil relief valve with a heavier spring .

I have just tracked down a set of OEM flywheel bolts too as they have a shank on them , last year we used some off-the-shelf items that had the tiniest amount of slop in them ....they bolted the flywheel to the crank adapter, it was the adapter to crank bolts that came loose, they didn't let go but they set the whole train crash in motion.......Having the exact shank on those flywheel bolts will be a little peace of mind.

The clutch pressure plate has had weight added to it and it will be important to make sure the marks line up when it is bolted up to the flywheel.

On another front I'd ordered a new helmet from a mob in Camarillo Ca. who promptly debited my card and neglected to inform me that they did not have the item in stock....... a month later no word, I asked that my money be returned.....it's time to call Mastercard.....


But the bottom line is , when I heard the motor was together I got all excited ......I need 8 miles per hour :wink:
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1534 on: February 28, 2011, 09:39:28 PM »
On another front I'd ordered a new helmet from a mob in Camarillo Ca. who promptly debited my card and neglected to inform me that they did not have the item in stock....... a month later no word, I asked that my money be returned.....it's time to call Mastercard.....

Time and time again, that seems to be the way.  Wheels, flywheel, rockers - "Computer shows it in stock" and other BS lines like "Should be here by X,X, 2011", "It's sitting on the dock in LA - just waiting to clear customs", "Our supplier backordered those on us", or my favorite, "I just saw the bill for that - should be here any day now".

My instincts tell me they haven't received your helmet because they're 90+ days out with their supplier.

Seems like you've got to ride these clowns like a pack of Hyenas on a Zebra. 

 :cheers: To the Colonial - assembly complete.  :cheers:

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1535 on: February 28, 2011, 10:08:50 PM »
:cheers: To the Colonial - assembly complete.  :cheers:
Now there's someone you can count on!

Only the English call us "Colonial"
Apart from which, I have dual citizenship

All you can count on me for at the moment is coughing

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1536 on: February 28, 2011, 10:54:28 PM »
:cheers: To the Colonial - assembly complete.  :cheers:
Now there's someone you can count on!

Only the English call us "Colonial"
Apart from which, I have dual citizenship

All you can count on me for at the moment is coughing

G

Sorry, Chief. Yeah - that was dumb. I've been really bad at the spelling thing lately.  

Note to self - READ before you POST. I'll go wipe the egg off of my face - again.

Glad to see it coming together.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1537 on: February 28, 2011, 11:06:48 PM »
on another front I'd ordered a new helmet from a mob in Camarillo Ca.

and everytime I see that word I think of Frank Zappa's Camarillo Brillo........


hahahaha
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1538 on: February 28, 2011, 11:31:34 PM »


Sorry, Chief. Yeah - that was dumb. I've been really bad at the spelling thing lately.  



Now I'm a really confused
One minute I'm  a Colonel, then I'm a Chief? :?
I would like to take this opportunity to clear this up
Although I might be a Colonial, I have held neither a Commission nor the rank of Warrant Officer in the ADF :-D
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1539 on: February 28, 2011, 11:35:20 PM »
Standing down.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1540 on: February 28, 2011, 11:38:15 PM »
I'm sitting at home with a nasty cough
So I have not much else to do
I guess this is how we got to 103 pages
:cheers: nope , can't drink either
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1541 on: March 01, 2011, 11:48:24 AM »
Dr. G -- I agree with you.  When I see Camarillo I, too, remember Frank Zappa's song.  I've got it on an album at home -- maybe I should load it into the machine and send it to you for the sake of remembering him.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1542 on: March 01, 2011, 03:54:37 PM »
Dr. G -- I agree with you.  When I see Camarillo I, too, remember Frank Zappa's song.  I've got it on an album at home -- maybe I should load it into the machine and send it to you for the sake of remembering him.
It was from "Overnight Sensation" my favorite Frank album, .....who could forget "Dynamo Hum"?

Who else would rhyme "Poncho" and "Unconcho" ?
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1543 on: March 01, 2011, 05:28:41 PM »
Dr. G -- I agree with you.  When I see Camarillo I, too, remember Frank Zappa's song.  I've got it on an album at home -- maybe I should load it into the machine and send it to you for the sake of remembering him.
It was from "Overnight Sensation" my favorite Frank album, .....who could forget "Dynamo Hum"?

Who else would rhyme "Poncho" and "Unconcho" ?
Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1544 on: March 01, 2011, 05:56:26 PM »
Dr G, what is the latest on the condition of the salt?
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