Fill's Bedford

Hi 600Dodge I not a trucker and I must be a bit slow, with the nudies I thought you spelt it wrong, it was not till today that I pulled up behind a truck, that I worked out what it was all about. Yes a bit slow. Cheers Fill

Hi all I finished the tow bar.It was dark when I finished, so I put some new batteries in the dog so that I could see, to clean up

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For a chippy my welding is not bad

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Light's seem to have died again in 2nd pic.? Love being here with you, but not much I can do, sorry boss.

Did you pull the carpet up in the Lounge Room?

Love your work, Fill.
Those towbar end plates are magnificent. You will be able to tow the Queen Mary with that.

If you had not rolled up the loungeroom carpet, sparks from the welder might have set the house on fire! Then again, maybe that is not the lounge room, maybe it is the dog kennel, you being a builder and all that.

Great stuff Fill

Not at all how I would have done it !!!! a lot neater and more professional than my work for sure

Clever dog that one

Paul

Hi all It is called hindsight." You would do a thing differently". I would get everything blasted. I thought I was doing O K, but it is a bit like this, if you used a hammer and cold chisel all your life, then someone came on site with a jack hammer and they knew how to use it.
You start to think you have been waiting a lot of time. I thought I was doing a good job. With the paint prep I was advised very wrong. But that is a story in itself. If I was getting any blasting done I would use this guy. The inside of the 800 mm long square, is as clean on the inside as the out side and the inside of the hitch just as good. The four bits to get done was only $40.oo Very nice guy to deal with and I don't recommend just any one.

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The pieces are raw steel not primed

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I primed the tow bar today ( yes, not very exiting ). But what was interesting, is I know that blasters re-use their media so I thought the tow bar would be hit with soiled media, so I got a clean white rag and wiped it down with Prepwash -nothing came off!
It took a lot of primer to get cover, this is because of the blaster made the surface a bigger area ( because of pitting ). I like that on the tow bar because it makes it harder to chip off paint. The painter that is doing the cabin, sanded the whole cabin before he primed it. I think that was a good idea, because there would be a waste of paint, and if he did not, he would have had to sand it after the primer. That would take the hills off and he would have to prime all over again. With the tow bar I am doing no sanding ( two different things).
I hope this was interesting.
Thanks for looking.
Cheers Fill

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