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Richard H
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Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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That welding looks great, really puts mine to shame!
Sorry I had forgotten all about the manual, but I'll let you know when I find it 
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Richard H wrote: | That welding looks great, really puts mine to shame!
Sorry I had forgotten all about the manual, but I'll let you know when I find it |
Thanks Richard, any literature will be much appreciated! With regards to
welding, I think I have just learnt to post pictures after the angle grinder...
just seems to make it a bit kinder on the eye 
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D4B
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Found this comparison test in a 1976 magazine "TRUCK"
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Rick
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Rick wrote: | I noticed one of these (1978) for sale in last week's Classic Car Weekly, £300 ono spares or repair.
RJ |
Hi Rick,
Yes my father also saw that ad and phoned up all excited.... however
it was the model one year newer than mine which was the first of the
Acty with the water cooled engine........
If it was a TN7 I would have bought it as a donor vehicle  |
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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Today I made my first ever attempt at a little metal shaping....
The ns door handle had rusted out (!!!) so here is how I tackled it:
Not fantastic but for my first attempt I am quite pleased
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Steve, that must be an amazingly rusty van when you have to fabricate a handle. What is it with these little commercial vehicles? Did they not rustproof like they do cars. My Ford pickup was like that; everthing went rusty.
Anyway, that looks a good job done and it's those detail areas that I find lift your spirits and motivate you once they are done. keep posting progress and pictures. I'm going to be back onto the welding tomorrow even though SWMBO thinks I'm painting the bathroom.
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| colwyn500 wrote: | I'm going to be back onto the welding tomorrow even though SWMBO thinks I'm painting the bathroom.
HeHeHe! |
SWHMBO.......................... well you got me I had to google it....
She Who Must Be Obeyed
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D4B
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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Forgot, this is the back of the handles old and new...
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IanAl
Joined: 15 Jan 2013
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| Has the thought of Suzuki Hayabusa power crossed your mind yet? |
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| IanAl wrote: | | Has the thought of Suzuki Hayabusa power crossed your mind yet? |
Yes and it would scare me to death n all.....
let's get it on the road first and see how slow it really is
(354cc how bad can it be?) and how poor the brakes are too!!
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, 354cc, aircooled? I thought you were joking until I read the scan of the advert. What were they thinking of. I am now beginning to see the attraction of this thing!
Off to EBAY. I'm guessing that they are very rare? |
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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Location: Hampshire UK
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Hi Peter,
Yes I was surprised quite how rare already, according to the website
http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/
there were 127 in 1994, now there are just 5, and that includes all the earlier
variations of TN360 presumably up till mine in 1977 which is the TN7 version of a TN360......
I think it could be a struggle to find one for sale
Steve |
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| D4B wrote: | Hi Peter,
Yes I was surprised quite how rare already, according to the website
http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/
there were 127 in 1994, now there are just 5, and that includes all the earlier
variations of TN360 presumably up till mine in 1977 which is the TN7 version of a TN360......
I think it could be a struggle to find one for sale
Steve |
Steve. I've already given up. Now I see all the more reason why you are pushing on with that one.
It's not always easy to see the attraction of someone else passion; but I can now.
Currently busy welding my one. |
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Yes Peter I am already wondering what IS the attraction....
usually every time the mig welder blows another hole in the
oh so thin steel of the Honda
There was a lot more steel in my 1961 Peugeot that's a fact
(and not just because it is 3 times as big)
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