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[clayts450]

Spent half an hour this morning looking for my teeth. Found them in the bin.

 

I trust they were embedded in an apple, doughnut, toffee, bread roll, etc etc.

 

Alternatively, this:

 

 

Or, better still, this

 

[320touring]

The wiser of you shall recognise the the significance of this pic..

 

[tooSavvy]

Reminds me of a Steptoe and Son episode.

"Awww...Gawwwd! Me gums 'ave shrunk!"  >> Classic 5***** 

 

TS

[tooSavvy]

The wiser of you shall recognise the the significance of this pic..

 

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Buy Me* and Stop One....

 

*didn't

 

TS

[taxi paul]

Ja ha. No I had been eating sweets with my little lad and had taken my bridge out. Put them on the coffee table and then threw all the wrappers away along with my teeth.not for the first time I can say.

[Lankytim]

Just picked up this thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parked up for a year, covered in tree sap, non working starter. I was intending to just defuel and scrap but obviously I had to clean it up and have a poke about..

 

 

 

The starter came back to life with the aid of a big diesel battery and the leaves and tree sap were cleared off. Everything works, can't find anything obviously wrong apart from a small patch inside one rear wheel arch, new exhaust, brakes and a couple of tyres for it's last MOT (which was 2 years ago to be fair). Do I fill it with scrap and weigh it in? Sell it "as is" to a Pineapple apologist? MOT it myself and smoke around in it? Arrgh, why can't it just be a total shitter so I'd know what do do!

[Guest Hooli]

MOT it and sell it to a pineappleist for many more chod tokens.

[Lankytim]

MOT it and sell it to a pineappleist for many more chod tokens.

 

It's probably only worth £250 with a full MOT so barely worth doing, especially if it costs £150 or so to get through.

[vulgalour]

Yup, chuck it in for an MoT and see what's what.  Could earn a few pennies.  They're not a bad old thing either those if you just want something smart to tool about in.

[HH-R]

The only VAG shite I can tolerate.

[twosmoke300]

They can be rusty old things tho

[MikeR]

The wiser of you shall recognise the the significance of this pic..

 

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its Wales , its not raining , and the castle on the hill can be seen ....

[strangeangel]

It's probably only worth £250 with a full MOT

 

Exactly, and you'll have the unbridled joy* of dealing with Dubbers when you come to sell it.  FWIW I think you've already answered your own question:

 

fill it with scrap and weigh it in

 

[Pillock]

Could you not just sell it as a clean example that needs a bit of weldage without an MOT? I think it would probably scrap more than £250 with though, it's prime fodder for the back-to-uni lot of you turn it around quickly. Daddy really wants his little princess to have a nice safe VW.

[Lacquer Peel]

Could you not just sell it as a clean example that needs a bit of weldage without an MOT? I think it would probably scrap more than £250 with though, it's prime fodder for the back-to-uni lot of you turn it around quickly. Daddy really wants his little princess to have a nice safe VW.

Wouldn't they baulk at a nearly 20 year old one?

[Pillock]

It's a VW. Yeah if you advertise it around Cambridge then daddy will have already bought his little petal a 2017 Mini Clubman Cooper D.

 

Stick a flyer up in some ex-polytechnic with suspiciously low entry requirements.

[fraser.innes.3]

I probably should make a separate thread for this new "project", but here we go anyway.

 

This is the wire feeder side.

 

The wire had a lot of resistance trying to feed it to the gun. On the reel, the wire is all jumbled about. I guess it's come unreeled at some point and someone wound it up to reuse it. I see now why you're not supposed to do that, as it makes the feeding inconsistent.

 

The gun itself was in a bit of a mess. Looks possibly like some bodging has been going on to fix things. New aftermarket guns can be had from eBay for £35, not sure how good quality they'll be, but surely can't be too much worse than this?

 

EDIT: Just realised that this has no gas feed to it, so someone must have bodged a replacement torch to it at some point. Looks like I'll need a new torch if I'm going to go gas.

 

 

I stripped it down and cleaned it up. Replaced the bodgy jubilee clip with a fresh one. Not sure how the wire would have originally been held in this, but I guess not this way?

The swan neck had no liner in it, is this normal? I have a Clarke one to fit in if necessary.

Main liner is metal, not nylon like some have reported it to be. Given the bodgery here, I reckon someone may have already changed it in its life.

 

 

Inside the main chassis. A bit dirty and full of dust & crap. I'll give it a Hoover out later.

 

The control board looks relatively uninteresting. The relay on it is pretty dirty and tired looking. Looking at the wiring it appears to control the main welding transformer (mains side, hence the small relay), which is good as it means that its probably not a live torch after all.

 

The wire feed motor definitely comes from the welding transformer. When welding, the transformer will load down and slow the feed. So you end up with a fast initial burst and then a lot slower feed in use. Apparently the opposite. I guess they did it this way for cheapness and to try to have a vague feed speed dependant on voltage.

 

Motor control is through an analogue circuit on the control board. Basically uses a transistor to dump excess power through it (hence the big heatsink on it) to slow it down. Not the best way to drive a motor and get the most torque. My plan is to disconnect that and feed it directly from a cheapy Chinese PWM controller, connected to a dedicated power supply for the motor. If I get one with a screen, I have some reference that I can calibrate wire speed to.

 

Directly powering it over 24v provided quite a feedrate. I assume that in pretty much every use, this is far too fast to be useful. However it did feed relatively smoothly, only changing when the reel unwound unevenly. I guess the liner isn't too bad a shape.

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Slow speed running. Pretty much as slow as I could run it.

[Video]

 

Next step is to source and mod in a motor controller. Current draw from the motor is pretty low, so pretty much anything will do the job. I'm thinking of one something like this:

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/DC-6-30V-12V-24V-MAX-8A-Motor-PWM-Speed-Controller-With-Digital-Display-Switch-P-/253116251484

 

Turning the knob will vary the speed I assume from 0-100%. I'm hoping that it'll be possible to linearly work out the percentage duty cycle to wire speed and then graffiti it on the front of the unit.

Mine looked like yours. This is what it looks like now. With added eurotorch.

 

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[SiC]

I'm surprised you didn't rip out and replace the wire feed system with one that combined the euro torch connector.

 

I assume the big-ish relay there is to switch the main welding transformer on/off?

[fraser.innes.3]

I'm surprised you didn't rip out and replace the wire feed system with one that combined the euro torch connector.

 

I assume the big-ish relay there is to switch the main welding transformer on/off?

IIRC it switches the mains feed to the pulse width modulation for the wire feed, switches on the gas valve and the feed to the torch.

 

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[fraser.innes.3]

I'm surprised you didn't rip out and replace the wire feed system with one that combined the euro torch connector.

 

I assume the big-ish relay there is to switch the main welding transformer on/off?

I have one of those fans if you want it. Designed for air circulation of 19 inch rack enclosures.

 

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[vulgalour]

 

All the black paint gone!  Mike lent a hand and we got it all done bar a few bits of grout and even the first coat of fresh paint on the walls.  It's a much more pleasant environment now, even though/because almost every surface is beige.

[Bear]

Pull the stereo out. You will be surprised at the number of stereos that have the code written on them. If it hasn't, I think you need the serial number anyway to work out the code which I think is possible with that unit, but you might have to pay for the code.

 

 

Renault (VDO) ones have a code like A123 on - on the older radio it was less obvious but still there. There's a whole list of em online, so you just look up the appropriate code, and you're sorted. Was dubious, but the Twingo's "new" radio came without code so I checked the old radio tallied up first, then used the match for the new one and of course, it worked first time.

 

This seems to be how most radio decodes work, they're a database linked to an identifier, no voodoo involved.

[bramz7]

The Tipo goes for an MOT today, before going into storage on the weekend. I did a few checks and all the lights are working, and the digidash is in a good mood too.

 

Think the rear plate bulbs have gone though. I'll mention that when I drop it off.

 

Also, it'll be getting 4 new tyres. 

 

J382EOU if you're bored.

[egg]

Despite best advice, I ordered a USA water pump for a Ford Contour for my Mondeo, well, because OEM for £30 including import VAT! Looks right, proof will be in the fitting...

 

[clayts450]

The Tipo goes for an MOT today, before going into storage on the weekend. I did a few checks and all the lights are working, and the digidash is in a good mood too.

 

Think the rear plate bulbs have gone though. I'll mention that when I drop it off.

 

Also, it'll be getting 4 new tyres. 

 

J382EOU if you're bored.

 

Bad luck son, but you called it right on tyres and plate bulb

[bramz7]

Bad luck son, but you called it right on tyres and plate bulb

Well that confirms the electric check diagram on the dashboard work's fine.

Knew there'd be a brake issue as there was grinding this morning. Fingers crossed not a tough fix.

[vulgalour]

Off to see a Wolseley Six with Mikeknight today.

[Ghosty]

[vulgalour]

 

 

 

It's well plush and the dashboard is like a drinks cabinet.  Noice.

[dollywobbler]

YES! That's fantastic.