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procedures are here for hotwire http://www.landroverclub.net//Club/HTML/Ch...rocedures39.htm

i have just unplugged mine - as I believe the solenoid is failed shut without power, so havent gone to the hassle of removing it unless someone knows otherwise. But boy what a difference. At 1800-2800rpm when on full boost. i can really feel it pulling, Worth doing.

I did some welding on ali using a butter mig welder, an machine mart argon bottle and ali wire. the control was good, although i had to set the welder to spot weld as the small argon bottle couldnt keep up with the flow rate of gas to the nozzle head. The weld turned out ok, not beautiful to look at but i achieved welding up 2 pieces of 2mm thick ali 6inches long. What i did find was that the ali needed to be kept cool though and one piece was clamped. I would love to get an ac tig though as its a wonderful set up, for welding any metal.

just incase anyone else fabs one of these up. the piston has a 29.9mm dia shaft on a 3t jack(i think most are the same, mines a wolf(screwfix) and also one from machine mart) if you use a 3t jack youll only need a 2000psi gauge if your planning on lifting a landy, works out to about 750-1200psi on a 300tdi disco corners. hope that helps someone.

bugger it. i thought that the piston may be retained by a circlip or something, its steped then? i am using a 3ton jack, and measured the piston at 27.85mm after my previous cock up. but now guess thats wrong as well. will need to calibrate it with a known weight then. cheers

I have just made mine and appears to work well. Although i tried the front offside of the bowler and the disco300tdi and got roughly 1200psi. which equates to 300kgish. I think my piston contact head may be a bit bigger though 25.6mm measured. Was surprised by this. Simon, any chance of you weighing the osf of a disco and seeing what you get?

found some well known (hottenberger???) tube formers at work, the 1 1/2inch had a measurement between the side walls of 46mm(roughly) it sounds stupid- but would this be used to bend 48mm OD tube? The 2" former was very slack- I can see an advantage and disadvantage using the 11/2inch former and 48mm OD tube- the pipe will fit snuggly into the former but will the tube grease into the former your advice needed, as i have the chnce of some formers now- not from work

was wondering how best to get corner weights for the bowler- looks like this is it!!! nice one

any pics yet dollythelw???? please

nice one look forward to it! great minds???????

i want to make up a tube bender and a bearing/bush press out of one unit. Which is the best way to start? Buy a press and adapt to bend tube (is the ram length long enough) or buy a tube bender and adapt to a press? either way i am getting replacement tube dies anyhow. either machines will be based on a machinemart/sealey type product. any suggestions???

thanks tong my mate will be pleased. he wants to use the series front panel on a 90 so using the origbial rad will make it easier cheers

thanks wasnt really sure where to put it!!!

anyone know if a series rad will cope with a 200tdi? i think it would require a upgraded recore but any thoughts? can i work it out mathematically??? cheers

I am currently living in Cambs. Looking at building spaceframe racer within next few years. But for now want it to do bits for a Disco.

Hello, I have been reading this forum for a while- and this post has real interested me. What bender would suit the bending of 2 and 3inch BB and CDS tubing? I am planning on purchasing a machine mart bender and some tubela formers and attapting the machine to suit. Would this allow me to bend both bits of tubing perfectly. I completely agree that the design of the cage is more important than the material used. In most cases proper design can allow smaller diameter and thinner tubing to be used. From simple analysis most rollcages are built out of LR design considerations rather than mechanical strength. Look at US motors. Paul Leworthys motor from Zeal Steel has taken alot of the US engineering features on his space frame chassis. Anyhow will my idea of a tube bender work??? cheers