Poor old ute

HELMUT · Post by **HELMUT** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:14 pm

yeah about time hey. Only took me 5 years to work it out... with a little help cheers Warby

The fixie is one my brother built out of an old frame from the tip and a heap of new parts. They are good fun, You got one?

HELMUT · Post by **HELMUT** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:17 pm

warb wrote:nice one mate, good on ya, pics look great.. love the fact to TOP of the headlight buckets are rusted.. ha..

Yeah its all up side down, even the patina in places

scotty*85vw · Post by **scotty*85vw** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:34 pm

nah just got a new tri bike.....8g and i got it seconhand for alot lot lot less..

like fixes but with the bright colours and all

splitwannabe · Post by **splitwannabe** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:22 am

yeah, the nagant rounds are FMJ. I sold alot of what i had left from when i had the rifle, i just couldnt use the damn thing... dono why. anyways, http://www.lawranceordnance.com/shot_an ... /index.php

easy to get, cheep enough too. about .60c a shot. im sure back when i bought it it was about .38c.....

ute looks great mate. should come up a treat!

will be watching this space!!

HELMUT · Post by **HELMUT** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:51 am

That projectile is 11.6mm around its base?? any ideas??

splitwannabe · Post by **splitwannabe** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:11 pm

i think maybe .458...... not sure :S http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g147/ ... G_0224.jpg

HELMUT · Post by **HELMUT** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:32 pm

Not the best photo but this is it. Is there such a thing as a shot gun smaller than a 12 gauge? cause it kind of looks like a mini solid.

And with the bus, had a spare 20 mins this arvo so removed the Lh head light bucket which will give me good access to repair the holes in the nose. I'll do a bit more over the weekend.

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:40 pm

There are 3 main sizes smaller....16g, 20g and 410g.
The last 2 are common enough in Oz.
16g is popular in Europe.
But I'd be plumping for 45 Long Colt or 45-70 in a lever gun.

MAMMO · Post by **MAMMO** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:47 pm

thats better than some of them u see on ebay.........u should grab it

HELMUT · Post by **HELMUT** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:47 pm

Spent some more time on the ute today. Got the holes in the nose repaired as well as the one in the chassis down near the horn mount, also got the cabin heater pipe back in and removed the rhf section of the ute bed cause it was a bit cheesy, strangely the rest of it is fine. Anyway here are some pics.

The damaged chassis section.

New plate.

All fixed.

Heater tube in.

And the nose holes fixed. just under some primer for now.

HELMUT · Post by **HELMUT** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:30 pm

Been spending a few hours here and there on the ute in the last few weeks so thought i should get some pics up.

Firstly i had cut this section out (this is it after I have welded a new piece in) to get rid of three bullet holes that were close only to find that the rail behind it was pretty rusted plus the captive nuts for the gate hinges were stripped out. I decided to open up the box section rail and see what could be done.

I removed the rusted part if the rail and took a bit of it to a local metal shop to have a new section made up, while that was being done i made some captive nuts out of 2mm plate cut into 20 x 20 squares with a hole drilled in the middle and a nut welded on. I then made some shallow top hat brackets to hold the nuts in place but still give them the movement they need to give the gates some adjustment.
Once I got the section back from the metal shop I weld it in then measured out the hole spacings for the hinges, drilled the holes and then welded the top hat brackets over the nuts. I test fitted a gate and everything worked well so i painted the inside of the rail then cut a section of flat plate to weld it all shut again. sweet job done

So that brings us to todays effort...

I am waiting on a few bits so i cant weld in the rh sills yet so today I decided to get it off the stands and turn it around in the shed so I could make a start on the left side.

Out of the shed..

This is what I had to start with on the LHS

And a couple of hours later its pretty much ready to start welding new metal in

warb · Post by **warb** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:34 pm

nice one mate, looking forward to crusing to melbourne with this ute to day of

HELMUT · Post by **HELMUT** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:49 pm

Day of 2012 maybe

.....2013 more than likely

D-Train · Post by **D-Train** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:20 am

lookin the goods so far!!!

HELMUT · Post by **HELMUT** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:48 pm

And now we are COOKING

Big ups to Elton (green bus) for lending me his rotisserie, this is going to make the job so much easier. This thing is the ducks nuts.