Jimmymac & Alistair's Monocoque Cars

[Davidmgbv8]

Great work,but why a grade 5 fastener for the trailing arm? Originality? just curious,

 

[JimmyMac]

Thanks David,
Simple answer is :
We are using cheap temporary fasteners because the suspension and uprights are coming off and on regularly to get the vents fitted.
The uprights also need to be drilled for the brackets.
The correct bolts will go in against the bolt list and marked up on final fit.

 

[JimmyMac]

A couple of early sixties 608s in mint condition ready for conversion.

 

[Ryan L]

How on earth do you find this stuff. Love it. Good work. Reminds me I need to go and pick up another mirror glass from the replaters

 

[Darren]

How on earth do you find this stuff. Love it. Good work. Reminds me I need to go and pick up another mirror glass from the replaters

Exactly what i was going to write (obvs not the bit about the platers)

 

[JimmyMac]

How on earth do you find this stuff. Love it. Good work. Reminds me I need to go and pick up another mirror glass from the replaters

Ryan,
Thanks, I have been collecting parts for this car of mine for nigh on 14 years so good things are bound to turn up now and again.
Those old brake unions above turned out nice after a dip in cleaner.

 

[JimmyMac]

Alistair and Mark fitted the doors again today to check gapping on my dash. Next week I shall be starting on the body shell fit out at my place.

 

[JimmyMac]

I set up a couple of my fuel pumps today on the cartridge bracket.
It works OK so on with the hole flanging and seam welding.

 

[JP Verweij]

Do these pumps run separate or always both at the same time?

 

[JimmyMac]

Do these pumps run separate or always both at the same time?

JP
Both options are possible, depending on your dash switching.

 

[Davidmgbv8]

I set up a couple of my fuel pumps today on the cartridge bracket.
It works OK so on with the hole flanging and seam welding.

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Where do you find the simplifix hose and fittings?

 

[JimmyMac]

Where do you find the simplifix hose and fittings?

The original fuel hose to the carbs was not Simplifix supply.

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

On my car, same pumps, they run in parallel.

 

[JimmyMac]

I changed over the sockets to get two wires to the amber flasher segment on the rears.
These are my rears before the change.

 

[JimmyMac]

 

[HILLY]

Cad plated James ?
Are there colour variations ?
Colour looks similar to a zinc chromate finish.

 

[JimmyMac]

Peter,

Yes, and I am slightly disappointed with the yellow but the Cad plating was a sales sample.
These were also heat soaked / de-brittled for 18 hours afterwords so maybe this affects the colour hue.

The bits will be painted with silver or black enamel.

 

[Neil]

Are you sure these parts are actually cadmium plated? Cad plating is not often done these days because of toxicity issues and it has been largely replaced by zinc plating with a passivated finish. The passivation can be colored gold, light blue or black.

 

[JimmyMac]

Neil,
Yes and thanks for your expert opinion again.

So answer me this, who does the Cadmium 2 spec. plating on all of these expensive aircraft bolts that we are using ?.
(no please don't as this is my build log)

We paid £69 each for a batch of aerospace bolts recently so they better be Cadmium 2 plated as certified.

Incidentally the forged parts for my Vincent were also clear Cad I plated in the US recently.

 

[Neil]

Virtually all cad plating these days is done for military and aerospace applications. There are very few facilities that offer cad plating due to the lack of high volume commercial demand. I gave up trying to find a shop that would do cad plating on onsey-twosey items so now I use passivated zinc plating instead. The appearance is virtually the same between cad & zinc plating once they're passivated.