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Difficult for me to swap the wiring out - it’s buried under the garden and plastered into the walls in the house … It goes from the house consumer unit to another mini consumer unit in the garage - then to normal plug and socket, but wired with 2.5mm throughout. I could hard wire it in though. I think the compressor comes with a normal plug … so I’d assumed they are quoting peak figures at 3kw? I know what you mean about not quoting FAD - I think Clarke aren’t on their own with that. All the hobby ones seem to do it.

I got one of these 😊 it’s pretty awesome !

Thanks for that - I’d never even heard of an auto drain !

So - My compressor has died. It was blowing oil out the top end, ejecting the oil plug from pressure in the bottom end, and both the motor and pressure switch are now knackered. Im thinking of going for one of these: https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-ve18c150-18cfm-industrial-vertical-elec-2/ Vertical will be easier to fit in my little workshop - and this is more powerful than the old one, which did struggle a bit with some hungry tools and with my blast cabinet. It is 3kw and it says check with an electrician that you have a safe installation - my old one was 2.2kw and I have a 2.5mm spur to the workshop on a 20A RCD which should be enough as long as I’m not running a ton of other things on it. I’m thinking some cookers are 3kw and just go onto a normal ring main. So this seems as big as I can go on the single phase mains. Any other suggestions or corrections welcomed. I’m also thinking I abused the old one - though I have had it 15 years or so - and I’ve never seen the garages I know look after theirs… So some basic questions: Do you leave them pressurised or is it best practice to drain them down each time? My old one leaked from a couple of fittings but I am guilty of just leaving it running so it would top itself up for days on end .. I also think I didn’t drain the tank of condensed water often enough. Lastly how often do you change oil in them or even service them ?

Super helpful info and offers - thank you so much all. SP sell the round ones for so little money that I’ll order some - I’m going to order some wheels from them in the not too distant future - so will put them in with that order. @vulcan bomber I will message you when I get them thank you 🙏🏻

I love those cutters too.

100% agree about it looking outstanding and being so satisfying to follow along with. I actually think that rightness is apparent everywhere - for example those diffs were modified to hell and back, but yet they ended up looking factory made. There was a point in their making where I thought ‘these will be hard to get to look good’ - 25 minutes of Stephen later (100 hours later on my labour times) and it’s looking like Mercedes made it that way. Remarkable.

Very exciting !

The original shaped early Series drive flanges are no longer available …. They were start shaped, like this net sourced picture: the later (available) ones looking like this: How would you cut the latter to have the shape of the former? (or close to it) For small numbers I know people would be able to bench fit it - but I know I wouldn’t end up with a clean edge in sight. Ive seen joiners use a router attachment where a special bit has a long shaft with a rotating cylinder on it above the cutting edges - so you can trace a shape with the cylinder and replicate it by cutting into the material below. I can’t imagine that working on a mill though.. For large numbers I guess you’d get it into CAD and cnc them - but I would imagine that’s only viable for fairly significant numbers. Any thoughts or machining wisdom? I’d be interested in how I might do a couple - but also how it might be done for a batch.

Seriously ! Flow is to the hydraulic indicator - earth is the return 😀

Pretend it’s hydraulics ?

That all sounds very exciting - will they take photos and share them with you as they progress ? I remember Retro Power talked about sharing pictures through WhatsApp with their customers.

Great News. What’s the brief for them ? Is it chassis and shell or the whole thing ?

That is fantastic!! 😂

⬆️ Me too !!

Not much done … other than planning and cutting a whole door frame…

I think it’s the only Government Department that doesn’t have a Minister. They have more autonomy and freedom than any of the other Departments I think.

Some of this build has been a bit of a blur - like your chassis work seemed to be about 4 or 5 weeks work and ended up taking you around 15 minutes. It’s like watching a TV Boxset, where I’ve seen every episode, but I’m convinced I’ve missed some.

We need @FridgeFreezer’s meme

I’ve been trying to find a picture of the exhaust - this is the best I’ve come across .. Looks to be quite a lot of room there ?

Woah - steady there ! Please don’t delete your posts. I just thought you must feel very strongly about it. I have no criticism of your posts at all. There are people with very strong feelings about billionaires and land rovers too ! I just wondered if that was you. I’m a bit more ambivalent towards the car - but would come across as more generous I think. I won’t be buying one - I want to try and save for retirement instead. I think he’s done quite well - it seems the main criticisms are leg room, wipers, and the steering - which seems very little from a brand new vehicle from a brand new manufacturer? I think of plenty of cars that came new with more faults than that. There is a lot that he seems to have got right that I would expect to resonate with our shared interests on here: utility over fashion, emphasis on build quality and repairability and so on and so forth.

Reading across your posts there seems to be a theme that you hate Jim Radcliffe and his car? Is that right ?

Oh sorry - I missed that. I haven’t seen a rotating one …. I’d guess it to be more expensive than the linked ones though? I bought my seat 2nd hand - thought I may have just been lucky.

They do them for each side of the vehicle and it’s a different fitting for the Puma engines Defenders with the different rear wheel boxes / inner arches. This one is for the original square arches: https://www.exmoortrim.co.uk/loc-and-fold-right-hand.html I have one in my 90 which my daughter has used for many many years, she’s 11 now and using it with a booster. I fitted just the one and on the passenger side, so I could look over my shoulder and see her.

They made an Ineos video too: