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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1200 on: January 22, 2014, 04:03:45 PM »
Just spent a lovely afternoon putting rubber around the bars of the trailer stoneguard, attached with cable ties, also rubber to the two front corners of the trailer and ends of pole carrier, where the stones get past the guard. These were glued.
Im hoping this will be a bit of protection for both the trailer and the back of the car..ie may stop wayward stones hitting the guard and bouncing onto back door of car.
Anyway I had fun.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1201 on: January 23, 2014, 06:45:20 PM »
wired up my offroad trailer (2) , tail lights, clearance lights, and electric brakes.

took all day, thats cos I did a few silly things.. like forgetting number plate lights.


also ran the cable for the handbrake and didn't find any guides to run the cable in. Guess what I have to do tomorrow. first scratch off the nice paint, then weld the guides on, then scrape off the crap and repaint.. wish I remembered to weld them on when the trailer was raw and upside down at the start. ohh well...





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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1202 on: January 24, 2014, 10:51:32 AM »
Finished sanding and trimming the hardwood and now assembled in the back yard. Just got to clean the saw dust out of the shed.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1203 on: January 25, 2014, 07:31:27 AM »
Great job nick 08.
Kids must be loving playing on it.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1204 on: January 25, 2014, 07:37:10 AM »
Great job Nick, I'm about to start oiling my son's cubbie, can't decide whether to use a brush or spray it...
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1205 on: January 25, 2014, 11:44:37 AM »
Going to wire up my torque converter lock up switch  ;D
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1206 on: January 25, 2014, 11:49:28 AM »
Bottled a brew of ginger beer, mid strength of course. Now the two week wait for  :cheers:

Lucky I have a collection of other  :cheers: to sample to fill in time.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1207 on: January 25, 2014, 11:58:38 AM »
Had to move a few things around for our new, to us, baby.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1208 on: January 25, 2014, 12:08:08 PM »
Going to wire up my torque converter lock up switch  ;D

You can test it on my drive way :)
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1209 on: January 25, 2014, 01:27:37 PM »
Oiled 2 sides of the cubby then got a dose of CBF

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1210 on: January 25, 2014, 01:32:10 PM »

You can test it on my drive way :)
;D last time I went too your joint I had to drop the tyre pressures and hit low range to get up. Steeper than billy goats ;D
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1211 on: January 25, 2014, 04:03:36 PM »
All wired up and it works
Plenty of steep tracks and driveways out here  ;D
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1212 on: January 25, 2014, 08:04:44 PM »
Finally wired up the Narva 225's that have been sitting on the bullbar for 12 months :D
Now waiting for the sun to go down for a spin :cheers:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1213 on: January 25, 2014, 08:06:16 PM »
All wired up and it works
Plenty of steep tracks and driveways out here  ;D
Nice work Bretto, what's it like down low?
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1214 on: January 25, 2014, 08:49:54 PM »
Nice work Bretto, what's it like down low?
Havent tried it in low range yet
But in Hi range when you hit the switch it drops about 200 rpm and pulls really well and noticed a big drop in trans temp
For it to work in first and reverse l need to put the Nomad valve body in
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1215 on: January 25, 2014, 08:52:05 PM »
You can test it on my drive way :)
Be there soon ;D
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1216 on: January 26, 2014, 06:16:48 PM »
Tidied up the wiring to the crank battery, as part of working towards fitting second battery.
Mounted a Jaycar 'bus bar' on top of the fuse box lid. All positive wires fitted off to it, then a single wire to battery - other than the 6B&S wire to the dual battery circuit breaker.
Also cleaned out the trailer.
Yesterday I  did a bit of grinding to the tips of the pins that hold the rear legs of the trailer, so that I can lock them down with padlocks, in place of 'R' clips. Just another minor safety precaution.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1217 on: January 26, 2014, 07:26:34 PM »
tripped over the plane that was I was building and finally making some progress with and busted the    f%&($% frame for the right aileron  mounting point thing, cars are more my thing anyhows, anyone wanna buy a couple of enya 4 stroke model engines  :D
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1218 on: January 26, 2014, 09:48:06 PM »
Redesigned the layout of the shed.  Should have done it years back, considering all the rubbish I got to throw out.  Do the other half tomorrow + beer.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1219 on: January 26, 2014, 09:53:55 PM »
Redesigned the layout of the shed.  Should have done it years back, considering all the rubbish I got to throw out.  Do the other half tomorrow + beer.
Did that this morning too, then cleaned the CT and hit the canvas with the Gerni. Then hit the beach  8)

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1220 on: January 26, 2014, 10:20:14 PM »
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1221 on: January 27, 2014, 08:49:07 AM »
Both cars washed and vacuumed, started at 7am before it got too hot/sunny. Wife drove the Prado during the week and on the only rainy day for months she decides to park under a gum tree and get the Prado covered in sap :'(
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1222 on: January 27, 2014, 08:54:13 AM »
Both cars washed and vacuumed, started at 7am before it got too hot/sunny. Wife drove the Prado during the week and on the only rainy day for months she decides to park under a gum tree and get the Prado covered in sap :'(

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1223 on: January 27, 2014, 09:31:33 AM »
Finally got around to splitting the batteries in the cruiser.
I've been thinking about it for over 12 months. ???
Used an Intervolt VSR and a couple of Optima D31A yellow top batteries.

Might head over to Canuda NP this arvo, take the lids for a swim and knock the top of a few frothy ones.  :cheers: :cheers:.


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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #1224 on: January 27, 2014, 11:51:05 AM »
sharpened the chainsaw and then went and used it, then sharpened it again, then used it some more...

I am now sharpening it free hand, so just a file, no guides jigs, electricity or anything else except a vice and file..

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