What did you do in your shed / man cave today?

[bmwfreak]

Bagpuss good use of 'scrap' timber. Well done

[Jeepers Creepers]

Over yesterday and today, i'm now 8 hours into polishing and detailing the Cadillac.

Man o man, you don't realise just how big these things are until you polish them.

I think i'm finally getting a dislike for chrome too.

About a 1/3 of the way so far.... hope to be finished by Thursday, then i'll attack the ol girls car. 

[Bird]

... you don't realise just how big these things are until you polish them.

Bragger...

[Jeepers Creepers]

Bragger...

Trust you to come up with that..... ya pervert. LOL 

[Pottsy]

Finished for a swag member this morning.

[bmwfreak]

Excellent work as usual Pottsy

[speewa158]

Pottsy  Your work is an inspiration  , Well Done

[GeoffA]

Lifted the top of this beauty.  Took it into the shed and gave it a bit of TLC. Don't drop it, it's over 100 years old....

Gave the post a lick of paint while it was apart.

[glenm64]

Lifted the top of this beauty.  Took it into the shed and gave it a bit of TLC. Don't drop it, it's over 100 years old....

Gave the post a lick of paint while it was apart.

Very nice Geoff.

Cheers Glen

[Heavensent]

Did a clean up.
Was able to clean shelves to fit tub of "future jobs" on the old patrol.
And made bench space for current jobs, speaker pods/spacers and mirror repair, or possible mod

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[D4D]

Updated the bottle holder to accommodate more bottles

[edz]

Realy D4 .... thats just wrong .. its too tidy . 
Should just throw them in a cupboard so that when on the odd chance you ever go to open the door an Avalanche of long unseen plastic drink bottles and twenty year old tuppaware containers comes busting out at you ..  Like my missus does . 

[garryc]

Shouldn't the one with the yellow cap in row 4 be beside the yellow one in row 2 and then move the one on the far right in row 5 to the spot the one with the yellow lid previously occupied

[Bird]

uneven number of bottles per shelf...

[GGV8Cruza]

uneven number of bottles per shelf...

He does have the plastics ad metals organised though

GG

[Spada]

 

Shouldn't the one with the yellow cap in row 4 be beside the yellow one in row 2 and then move the one on the far right in row 5 to the spot the one with the yellow lid previously occupied

C.D.O.... it's like O.C.D, but in the correct order 

[D4D]

They're actually sorted by brand with a couple of exceptions, oh and there are a few more yellow bottles in the post hence the gap beside the yellow bottle

[Jeepers Creepers]

Over yesterday and today, i'm now 8 hours into polishing and detailing the Cadillac.

Man o man, you don't realise just how big these things are until you polish them.

I think i'm finally getting a dislike for chrome too.

About a 1/3 of the way so far.... hope to be finished by Thursday, then i'll attack the ol girls car. 

My arse looked like it'd been in a waffle iron by the time i was finished.
For 56 year old paint, it still gets a decent shine going on.
Its a shame it has a few bumps and bruises from the first owner, but be buggered if i'm gunna dick around with the original paint.
Even knocked off the grime from behind the number plates.
Done, parked in the corner, 4 king sized sheets draped over it and lookin cooooool.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Not in the shed, but a little bit away, we have a swimming pool.

About 10 years ago, I filled it in...... for good reason too.

However, now i'm about to dig it out again by hand.

[Fizzie]

I would dearly love to be able to claim that this was done in my shed, but no way!

Came from a mate's e-mail, but I thought some of you might like it

https://www.youtube.com/embed/HyuE1XnYO0I

[Jeepers Creepers]

Over to you Pottsy.... ya up for it?

[Fizzie]

Over to you Pottsy.... ya up for it?

Something I meant to ask you as well, Jeepers?

You've got "Mar 1964" tags on your number plate. Just to let people know what it is, or are they a requirement of some sort for display / rego purposes

[Jeepers Creepers]

Something I meant to ask you as well, Jeepers?

You've got "Mar 1964" tags on your number plate. Just to let people know what it is, or are they a requirement of some sort for display / rego purposes

That's how they do the tags in California (see the original plate in the trunk/boot)
So, because the car came off the assembly line on the 25th of March 1964, I just tagged the plates to suit.
So yeah, just to let people know what it is. 

[tryagain]

So how'd it go, TA

Did it work, or turn into a little puddle of molten aluminium

No melting at all, a slight bit of buckling, not sure if that was from the heat of jamming a heap of firewood in, I suspect the latter. Unfortunately, most of the Powdercoat is still intact though, so it's still whiteish. I have had an encore performance in it now as well and appears to be fine. I know that campfires can easily get above the melting temp of aluminium, but suspect it works like a heatsink on the outside to keep it cool. It has promise at it's very light compared to your typical steel version, and won't rust either.

[Pottsy]

Over to you Pottsy.... ya up for it?

To sum it up in a couple of words, Fark No.

Pretty speccie though.