Ulysses

You know me Riccy....I like smooth doors

Bank holiday weekend, so expect a few updates! :laugh:

The postman has been busy this week with all the different parcels needed for the planned activities.

First on the list was the linear actuator to make the bed tip. Had to swap around the brackets and put another bar in the trailer base as it wasnt working for the initial lift up where I had it originally. Its now the other way around and works well. I sat in the bed at the front end and set it off. Lifted my weight from an old alarm battery without struggling, so I think it will handle the planned loads of logs very well. Rocks and soil might be a bit much for it though :huh: :dry:







Then found a use for the left over sheet of checker plate:



and the paint stash:





The plan is to paint the body, bonnet, wings, doors and roof with the red colour (RAL3013 'Tomato' red - looks like red oxide to me :laugh: ). The bonnet checker plates's, cage, wheel arches underbody, front bumper and back load bed will all be in black, though I may sneak a bit of the red in on the tipper body if its looking a bit too black here and there.

Need to get the cage off tomorrow and finish weld it all. Then its prep everything for painting hopefully on sunday

Anybody got a laser cnc cutter? I fancy a Suzuki 'S' in the bonnet plates???

Good work as ever Riccy!

Riccy wrote: Anybody got a laser cnc cutter? I fancy a Suzuki 'S' in the bonnet plates???

Allthough Aluminium is not my main material I think you would want to look for a water cutter and not laser. I think laser is too hot for the aluminium. so the edges will be rough. And/or the plates must be of the kind that can take the heat..

Whitelaw Technology up near you has a cnc plasma..... I spent a day training them to use it.

I'd machine the logo in on the cnc router.

I bought a cnc plasma earlier this year but as Yakuza says....not the best choice for Al