Ed Poore

Ask for Mark @ CLH Trailers, he's the chap who runs their big CNC plasma. Will do up to at least 20mm plate I think and at least full size sheets. They're quite happy to post stuff or palletise it. They'll have all thicknesses of milk steel in stock.

Attach a chain to it and take it for a drive down the road?

A mate of mine from the Welsh Shooting Team has a heavy involvement in Minis (started a business restoring them a year or two ago) based in Monmouthshire and may well have something suitable lying around. https://www.sjhartclassicprojects.com/ If they need workshop space / help / tools / assistance whatever and are heading down Pembrokeshire way then they're more than welcome to stop by. Don't have the lift installed yet but there are ways and means

It's alright @bishbosh there's a Bridgeport next door to the bench of 3 old Elliott pillar drills . It was more because I find myself stacking bits of steel under stuff to drill so having the XY table allows me to clamp stuff higher up as well as move it around without having to unclamp it.

I recently acquired a wee XY table with a roughly 250x500mm bed on it (260x330 travel), includes 4 slots in the base for bolting it down. Plan is to put it on the T slot table under the pillar drills since I normally need to pack things up to reach them, or turn it into a mini mill. Best thing was I managed to get it shipped from Essex to West Wales for free because someone owed me a favour.

@Anderzanderjust be wary of driving it if the alternator is on the way out - a friend had a regulator pack fail on his 200Tdi 90 and it failed in a way to over-voltage the battery and cause it to explode . Rare situation but still not very preferable.

Just read through the rules - appears they allow auctions just not links to auction sites.

No I think they mean that price, they used the buzzword "restomod" which I think means we modified it from original but reckon we can charge a bucket load because we used a buzzword for the yuppies. But it should be a misprint.

Okay - I didn't make my current hydraulic press but I take your M30 and raise you a 3" AF. I even had to make a special spanner for them

I've not seen an X Brake up close but I think from pictures the bracket bolts to the casing if I'm not mistaken. If what @Jocklandjohn says above is true then any variation in output shaft location may mean the pads don't locate evenly. The drum based setup by its very design means that any longitudinal variance in the output shaft to casing is irrelevant. It's also an inherent feature of drum based setups that the more leverage is put on once the pads are applied they should (if designed and assembled correctly) bind up with even more force.

I'm more worried about my webbed toes coming back.

Well I haven't decided what the current temporary workshop is to be used for once the workshop tools move down to the new one. Although current thoughts are climbing wall, snooker table and cinema room . I was lucky enough that quite a few things lined up simultaneously to allow me to move back down here. Although someone recently asked me when I'd be finished and I replied "about a year after I peg it".

What's wrong with good old fashioned ISO 46 hydraulic oil? Roughly half the price of ATF

Hardly surprising when you consider they are used to tension several tonnes of excavator track

Nope - different barn for that Upstairs = super clean workshop (electronics and office for work) Downstairs = clean workshop (machine tools etc) Adjacent "blacksmiths" barn = dirty workshop (welding grinding etc) There is a hole ready for a large double garage built into a bank but until I know how much the house rennovations are going to cost me (there's 600sqm of rendering to do) it's on hold, particularly as costs have more or less doubled since last year. Although I do have the mesh for doing the slab and retaining walls (downstairs will be 4m high in order to clear the bank behind and then a garden shed in the roof space).

Not intended to be Mediterranean but I guess being white it has turned out that way - main reason for being white was to make the whole place brighter. The arches used to be hay racks I think back in Victorian times. There might be another pizza oven intended for outside This is how it started (and before you say, yes I did keep all the slabs of slate forming the floor), the timber disintegrated due to wood worm.

Think a lot of it is down to the paint. The weathershield is pretty forgiving and just running it over with a roller gives it a smoother finish. Bear in mind this isn't a smooth plaster finish but a roughish render so very forgiving I think compared to a gloss. Neither is the wall very flat. Main thing is it'll survive being washed.

I think that'll do for a workshop finish

Rollers are a wee bit faster than brushes, think one more coat tomorrow should see it finished. Then try and whizz through the first floor so I can move tools into it. Shifting the mill should be good fun...

Bugger I'm possibly doing it the wrong way around. Scotland first and then to Surrey a few weeks later otherwise I could have brought up stuff.

Bugger I'm possibly doing it the wrong way around. Scotland first and then to Surrey a few weeks later otherwise I could have brought up stuff.

I did have to sit down for half an hour and talk myself out of it...

My "This mornings project" has slightly less metal work involved, time for a second coat in the workshop. Annoyingly I have been lent an airless sprayer but despite thinning stuff down to 50% the nozzle kept plugging so gave up and went old school with a brush because it was all that was available.

Much less effort!

And here I was thinking you were going to weld them all together to form the radius arms