Oh dear looks like the moths have been at it, yes it's true paint can cover up loads of things.
By the way you won't find a compressor to do any decent sand blasting which runs on a single phase supply, only possibility would be to get the biggest one you can find and connect it to a couple of large receivers you can blast for a few minutes and then stop and allow the system to re pressurise.
 
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boguing said:
Seems people are reading something into my comment that I didn't intend!

I meant that I stood back and looked at the mess that I'd made using soda - which didn't matter because I could just hose it away - and realised that any re-usable media was going to get everywhere if I didn't make a complete box. And that was going to cost more money. And I'd have to suit up far better, buy a better hood than the poxy free one that came with the blasting pot. I could see the total spend going up to £200 easily, so I got on the 'phone and found the bloke I've mentioned. I have no intention of doing another Landy for myself, so having almost got my money back by eBaying the pot and garnet I've saved a few quid by paying him.

If you can't find someone like him then there is an opportunity for someone. I've tried a few others who are closer to me in the past, but they have been terrible bull****ters basically. Didn't do, or couldn't do in one case, the job when they said they would, and massively expensive. You'd need 500 sq ft, and apparently £20k for the big compressor that can run all day. That's just money (?) but you'd need a special mentality to work in the half dark all day, permanently tasting rust and having to deal with a lot of customers.

I think you could be right about your bloke having rubbish gear that only runs for 1/4 of the time. If you were ever doing a large quantity again (like your last lot) it wouldn't be daft to put it on a pallet and send it somewhere - possibly even Sussex!
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Thanks for the info, interesting, seems a few people have to try a few to eventually find someone decent, I've tried quite a few locally and non are brilliant, either expensive (this chap) slow (previous chap) don't answer the phone, don't get back to you are just generally aren't interested. I don't think their is many, if anyone I haven't been in touch with in the area.
I wish I could just find someone reliable and reasonably priced and I wouldn't even consider doing it myself, and give them all my work, other than getting a little cabinet to do little brackets etc for ease/quickness.

mick the builder said:
Just shows you whats under the paint. You could have just flated it and painted it for it to come back and bite you in the arse. Scrapping it or what?
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Yep, slightly annoyed with my self too, I should have known it was bad, just didn't think it would be this bad, and have another in the shed, still needs repairs, but better than this one, should have sent that one instead and sent this when I have more time.
Not sure about the scraping it, is it optimistic to think I can repair it :eek: May try and find another, not sure what to do yet.

raywin said:
Oh dear looks like the moths have been at it, yes it's true paint can cover up loads of things.
By the way you won't find a compressor to do any decent sand blasting which runs on a single phase supply, only possibility would be to get the biggest one you can find and connect it to a couple of large receivers you can blast for a few minutes and then stop and allow the system to re pressurise.
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Yep, that is very true, that's half the thing stopping me, knowing I will spend a fortune on the biggest compressor I can run from home and it still wont keep up properly.
 
aaronmorris said:
Not sure about the scraping it, is it optimistic to think I can repair it :eek: May try and find another, not sure what to do yet.
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Time to check out the range of repair panels available from YRM and the like. That would be my starting point before making a decision. I'd then have to do a hell of a lot of brushing up my welding skills :)
 
I've been thinking about how to get serious amounts of compressed air. I see there are some quite handsome receivers for sale on Ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERTICAL-...457154?hash=item1c706fc402:g:1QcAAOSw4q9XT2lL If you left that to fill up while you had a plate of toasted cheese it would keep you going for a while before it ran out of puff. I'd like a diesel trailer mounted jobbie but the ones with any life left in them look to be fetching over £2000 so I won't get one just yet. As I've said on here before, what I'd really like to do before I get too old is acquire an AEC Matador, so there'll be loads to blast, spray, unscrew with a 1" impact wrench, jack etc.
 
A mate of mine (with the pit in his garage) used to have a large receiver that took about an hour to fill, was about a metre wide and about 9' tall. He had it so that he could spray cars at night without peeing off the neighbours. Got rid of it when he realised it was wasted space, doing 2 whole cars a year just wasn't worth it sitting there.
 
Brown said:
I've been thinking about how to get serious amounts of compressed air. I see there are some quite handsome receivers for sale on Ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERTICAL-...457154?hash=item1c706fc402:g:1QcAAOSw4q9XT2lL If you left that to fill up while you had a plate of toasted cheese it would keep you going for a while before it ran out of puff. I'd like a diesel trailer mounted jobbie but the ones with any life left in them look to be fetching over £2000 so I won't get one just yet. As I've said on here before, what I'd really like to do before I get too old is acquire an AEC Matador, so there'll be loads to blast, spray, unscrew with a 1" impact wrench, jack etc.
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That's a serious receiver for home use its 2 Cu mtrs but you are right it would make blasting a possibility, one side issue, a receiver that size should have insurance certification and be inspected regularly, needs a pressure gauge and a relief valve fitted also. would be handy if you could get a few paid blasting jobs to cover the expense, I would have some bits which I would be happy to pay for.
By the way do you think it would fill up while you have scrambled egg on toast?

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You would need a decent compressor to charge it something like :
http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/Compressor-100ltr-Belt-Drive-3hp-with-Cast-Cylinder-Wheels

May dim the street lights a bit when it starts.
 
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Yes indeed, it would need certification. Alternatively one could put it deep in the countryside and build blast walls round it. I'll just have to do all my blasting in mid Wales. No neighbours to complain about the noise of compressors running, grinding, hammering, air tanks exploding etc.
 
Brown said:
Yes indeed, it would need certification. Alternatively one could put it deep in the countryside and build blast walls round it. I'll just have to do all my blasting in mid Wales. No neighbours to complain about the noise of compressors running, grinding, hammering, air tanks exploding etc.
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Ah that's what you need they never see the funny side of stuff like that in Doncaster
 
My electric compressor's rated at 3HP. I deliberately bought one with quite a small tank though, so I could lift it single handed and get it in the back of the Land Rover. So I could get some air tanks big enough to blast with and fill them up slowly, or an ex roadworks compressor. The latter appeals to me because I'd like to build the all-diesel workshop of the future. All I need is a diesel pillar drill, a diesel bandsaw, a diesel welder and so on and I'll be all set up.
 
Al2O3 said:
Yeah, there's some work in restoring that bulkhead. :(
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Yep :( I can see why people just buy from the likes of Ashtree already done.

Al2O3 said:
Time to check out the range of repair panels available from YRM and the like. That would be my starting point before making a decision. I'd then have to do a hell of a lot of brushing up my welding skills :)
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Yep, already had been looking, they got my money last time and will do again as the parts where of good quality.

Brown said:
I've been thinking about how to get serious amounts of compressed air. I see there are some quite handsome receivers for sale on Ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERTICAL-...457154?hash=item1c706fc402:g:1QcAAOSw4q9XT2lL If you left that to fill up while you had a plate of toasted cheese it would keep you going for a while before it ran out of puff. I'd like a diesel trailer mounted jobbie but the ones with any life left in them look to be fetching over £2000 so I won't get one just yet. As I've said on here before, what I'd really like to do before I get too old is acquire an AEC Matador, so there'll be loads to blast, spray, unscrew with a 1" impact wrench, jack etc.
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Crikey, that is some big receiver, would be ideal actually, and the diesel trailer compressor jobbie is what I thought would be the ideal too, but no good for me around here, their would be uproar :eek:
I think when I move somewhere and get settled in etc and plan to stay their a while I will be something along these lines, unlike now where everything is shifted from pillar to post.

raywin said:
That's a serious receiver for home use its 2 Cu mtrs but you are right it would make blasting a possibility, one side issue, a receiver that size should have insurance certification and be inspected regularly, needs a pressure gauge and a relief valve fitted also. would be handy if you could get a few paid blasting jobs to cover the expense, I would have some bits which I would be happy to pay for.
By the way do you think it would fill up while you have scrambled egg on toast?

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You would need a decent compressor to charge it something like :
http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/Compressor-100ltr-Belt-Drive-3hp-with-Cast-Cylinder-Wheels

May dim the street lights a bit when it starts.
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I think that's the first thing I need to buy, a decent compressor, after that I could add receivers as and when I have room or can afford it.
While mine works it isn't great, I have been telling myself I will buy a new bigger/better one for a year now, just so damn expensive.

Brown said:
Yes indeed, it would need certification. Alternatively one could put it deep in the countryside and build blast walls round it. I'll just have to do all my blasting in mid Wales. No neighbours to complain about the noise of compressors running, grinding, hammering, air tanks exploding etc.
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Ah, lucky you :D Only a dream for me..
 
So then, I decided I would try and repair the bulkhead, a waste of £100 having it blasted if I just scraped it, and I do actually think it is salvageable, just more time to do so.
Anyway, I made an order with YRM on Monday morning at about 8:30 before I went to work, and credit where it is due they was on my doorstep by 10am this morning. Top notch service from them. And having used their repair panels before I know they are of good quality.
Actually had today off work and expected to be doing, well not a lot really..
Annoying that the top repair panels are supplied in that black paint, but I knew that before I bought them.
Still waiting for some other stuff, cutting discs, flap discs, welding wire, spot weld drill bits etc, but I have enough to get me going.



So day one of what I expect to be many and decided to start with the foot wells, the easy bit..
So old one cut/drilled out, lots and lots of spot welds..
And new one clamped in place.



Panels plug welded together in the foot well it's self, kind of how it was originally done, and seam welded across the top (behind the dash area) Will likely go back and do some more, sure I did a lot more last time.



All welded in, all still needs a good tidy with the flap disc but I'll do that and the other foot well another day.
Still a long way to go and probably only about an 1/8th of where it needs to be at..
Back at work tomorrow mind so will have to wait.

 
Well, as so much is attached to it it's worth taking your time to make sure it's straight and square. Superb start, mate. Looks great so far.
 
mick the builder said:
Only problem Aaron is whats left looks paper thin.
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In places it is Mick, but that is why I bought the full width top repair panels, the rest I am confident I can cut out the bad and make good again.

Discokids said:
Looking good:)
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Thanks :) A slow start, but it'll get their.

Al2O3 said:
Well, as so much is attached to it it's worth taking your time to make sure it's straight and square. Superb start, mate. Looks great so far.
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You are right and hopefully it comes out good, the last one worked and fitted well enough, the piece of steel bar layed on the bench is what I bolt between to 2 footwell feet to get that bit right.

mick the builder said:
Trying to work out if the legs on your workbench are very short or your vertically challenged.;)
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Haha, just really short legs, it was formally the living room table, she wanted to throw it away, I couldn't bare to do that as it is a good solid, oak table, and knew it would make a good bench or something, just needs some longer legs and find somewhere to put it into use, other than the middle of the garage floor :)
 
Anyway, some bits came back from blasting today, looks good on the whole, just some repairs to the battery box to do and that's about it.
Although the more I talk to this chap, the more I wonder how good, or bad his equipment is, said it took him 'bloody ages to do' and that I've got a bargain their, even though he told me paint/rust was easy to remove, which most of it was, so not sure what went wrong.
And you know when people say they've got all the best gear, are they just trying to make them selves sound better than they actually are..
But right now I am happy it is actually getting done, I have done no better with the half a dozen others in the area, and at least he has reasonable turnaround times.
Just waiting for the cappings and two bonnet frames to come back now.

 
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