It's a variation on the WW2 Parker type beading tool, there are current copies by ATS and Graham Tool. The current versions are four tools (a clamping tool and 3 bead tools), yours handles the different bead profiles by the changeable outer dies, all use the interchangeable inner dies. The new versions are around $500-$600.
Lol, I was referring to Land Rovers work as British car tolerances and yours as the Japanese tolerances, as opposed to your work improving...... hmm that sounds like a slight on you too ..... I think I should stop now
Blimey, we've moved from British car tolerances to Japanese tolerances!
Out of curiosity will the chassis flex enough to cause the steering shaft to contact the suspension mount?
Could you add an extra UJ into the mix to get you around the obstacle? You'd need another bearing mount too, but we now don't bat an eyelid when we expect you to do hours of machining off the back of a throw away comment
BTW I'm amazed how well it's turned out, I was expecting it to stretch and distort a lot, but it looks like it's only had a little stretching in the big panel.
I've not seen many used TD5 speedos coming up for sale in recent years, perhaps I'm not paying enough attention. I'd be inclined to look at your broken one first, but then I am a tinkerer and can't leave well enough alone
Curious if it was fully charged at the time?
I replaced the battery in a MacBook Pro that was no longer holding charge for very long. Out of curiosity I shot the old one with an air rifle several times and the most I got was a tiny puff of smoke.
The battery didn't have much charge at the time.
The last one I had removed I only spotted because of the rust ring that developed after a few days, the kind lady scraped it out with a needle as it had healed over. They didn't use a burr or anything to remove the rust, they just left that and it disappeared after a while. Is the die grinding your eyeball a new thing they've started doing? The worst part of the whole thing was the cream they gave you to put in your eye for the following week, left a horrible taste in your mouth afterwards.