Project Rusty Triumphs in Scotland - To gas or not to gas(less MIG) - 09/11/24

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The reg is NJ57UUH, a 2.0 'Namura' model. No rusty arches, no V5, 87426 non warranted mileage. The MOT history shows that the mileage is almost certainly correct and that it has the usual underbody surface rust but nothing tragic.

 

They only book at £740 clean, £520 trade and £290 tatty. This one had no docs so £450 was about right. 

 

If you can get a year out of a car like this and weigh it in for £200 - and spend nothing on it - you've had cheap motoring. That's how you do it. 

[DodgyBastard]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Acclaim was welded and through an mot by next weekend, Captain 70's has been making some excellent progress with the welding today.

[danthecapriman]

Fair play! Commitment to the cause!

[SiC]

Frag it!

 

Store it!

 

Sell it!

 

Nah. No fucking around with captain_70s it appears. Just taking the bull by the horns and getting the welding done. Top marks for getting it sorted captain_70s.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Jesus. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

As they say (a lot) in these parts, fair play!

[Pillock]

If financial sensibility was the only way to go, we'd all have a Mk4 Mondeo petrol or something tedious. Or walk everywhere.

 

I'd have been thrown in a padded cell long ago with this series of events but clearly there are better people than me out there. Chod speed!

[Guest Hooli]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Acclaim was welded and through an mot by next weekend, Captain 70's has been making some excellent progress with the welding today.

 

A good teacher helps I bet. I keep trying to learn to weld but with no guidance I never know how it went wrong other than it didn't work.

 

Good on ya though Cap

[Mr_Bo11ox]

RESTECP

[davehedgehog31]

Go on Captain.

[captain_70s]

After a mere 13 hours of welding I left Foadwerx at 00:45, the Acclaim is now back in Glasgow.

 

The welding work isn't awfully aesthetically pleasing but it's solid and should see it through another few year's worth of MOTs. The good news is that the vast majority of the car is actually not in bad nick, most issues are where prior repairs have left areas weakened. The worst areas are the outer edges of the rear wheel arches, the inner bit up the shock tower it all pretty good but the double skinned area on the outside edge is fooked.

 

More work will be needed at some point, the inner arches can't be properly repaired without cutting the outers off and for that I'd need replacements and for that I'd need to fabricate some out of front wing panels that are still available, but the structural bits are all done.

 

I can't thank FOAD enough for letting me use the facilities, equipment and for sticking around for ages to help me out and showing me how to work the sparkly metal gluing machine.

[Brodders]

Excellent job, I am glad and amazed that you managed to get it welded up so quickly.

[vulgalour]

[egg]

[mk2_craig]

After a mere 13 hours of welding I left Foadwerx at 00:45, the Acclaim is now back in Glasgow.

 

The welding work isn't awfully aesthetically pleasing but it's solid and should see it through another few year's worth of MOTs. The good news is that the vast majority of the car is actually not in bad nick, most issues are where prior repairs have left areas weakened. The worst areas are the outer edges of the rear wheel arches, the inner bit up the shock tower it all pretty good but the double skinned area on the outside edge is fooked.

 

More work will be needed at some point, the inner arches can't be properly repaired without cutting the outers off and for that I'd need replacements and for that I'd need to fabricate some out of front wing panels that are still available, but the structural bits are all done.

 

I can't thank FOAD enough for letting me use the facilities, equipment and for sticking around for ages to help me out and showing me how to work the sparkly metal gluing machine.

 

[trigger]

Unbelievable! Well done!

[dollywobbler]

Well, that's a mighty leap forward. Seriously impressive. When many had doubts, you just grabbed the bull right by the horns.

[320touring]

Tremendous work!

[Datsuncog]

G'wan, ye boy ye.

 

(As they say around these parts.)

 

Absolutely delighted to hear this; that's some serious work and hopefully (once you've rested/recovered) you can take a grim satisfaction in knowing you've got the chops to deal with this sort of task.

 

Respec'.

 

 

[cort16]

Nice one captain

[DodgyBastard]

Here's some pics from around midnight.

 

RJC_1906 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1923 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1930 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1931 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1936 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1938 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1939 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1940 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1944 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1957 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_1963 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

 

It was a long day yesterday but well worth it to see the Acclaim heading in the right direction, the welding although not the most aesthetically pleasing is solid and fused together well, by the end of the night Captain 70's was really getting the hang of it, the mig sounded like frying sizzling sausages.

 

The rust really wasn't that bad, there are still bits that will need doing in the future but the list of stuff needed for the mot has been finished which means that Captain 70's can get some use out of it.

 

Well done for sticking with it!

[dollywobbler]

Now that has to be a calendar shot!

[LessThanEqual]

Now that has to be a calendar shot!

"Breaking Chod"

[SiC]

That's the look of "Why do I do this to myself?"

[Christine]

Brilliant stuff ! 

[SiC]

Not only impressive that captain_70s has not taken the easy way out, but also FOAD for gratuitously and willingly not only offered his facilities but his help too. Without which I'm sure captain_70s wouldn't have been able to get out of this hole he found himself in.

[timolloyd]

Really impressive. Love reading stories of cars that have been so close to the edge, being rescued like this

[chaseracer]

FOAD/Cap70s: shite heroes.

[DodgyBastard]

Captain 70s forgot to bring any sheet metal through and my supplies were running low, I wasn't sure if we'd have enough metal when we started until I remembered I had a piece of Lada floor I'd had posted in from Russia. Having used all of the bits I needed from it to repair the jacking point and chassis leg on my Riva last week, the rest was surplus and now there's some Russian steel welded into the Acclaim...

 

 

RJC_1947 by srblythe, on Flickr

[Rave]

Agreed, this is absolutely brilliant. While CS was receiving all that (sensible and well intentioned) advice to sack it off and save himself the heartache, and the rest of us were biting our nails, he was in the middle of a 13 hour weldathon! Hollywood couldn't have scripted it better.