Bringing it back:, Improved Original for 4742910780 Options

[Van B]

copper weld through primer is good stuff.
used a lot of it on the falcon ute. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

nice work on the hinge plates.

I only recently learned about it. Zinc is such nasty stuff when tig welding. One day I googled “weld through primer tig welding” and boom, I discovered magical things lol!

[Van B]

Finally a step forward. Acid etch primer applied:

[Van B]

Evening all! Thanks Andy for bringing the forum back to life!

I came up with an answer to 50yr old undercoating that doesn’t involve gallons of mineral spirits or dozens of rags. A steam pressure washer! This little monster just saved me weeks or scraping and scrubbing! I just wish I’d thought of buying one sooner!

[Van B]

Didn’t get any proper before shots because I was full effort to get this done in a cold afternoon. But here’s a before shot when I was sorting my fuel pump wiring:

[Van B]

Couple more:

[Van B]

My cleaning job dislodged enough rust from the weep hole in the jack plates that I decided I need to have a look. Glad I did. This thing was as nasty on the inside as barbra streisand lol!


I did get lucky however and the top half of the jack plate still had most of its coating on and only superficial rust. The misery of this bottom half is certainly due to the mud nests that were inside for who knows how long.

[Superhawk996]

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Done right and will stop the hidden tin worm from continued feasting behind the jack pyramid.

[Van B]

Thanks brother, that means a lot coming from you. I can definitely see how so many restorations go wrong when people run out of patience, time, or money.

[wonkipop]

i see you are keeping up with the copper weld through primer.
vastly improving on the flawed original.

nice view from the driveway.
trees? what are they? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) its bitumen and bluestone around my inner city bunker.

[Van B]

i see you are keeping up with the copper weld through primer.
vastly improving on the flawed original.

nice view from the driveway.
trees? what are they? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) its bitumen and bluestone around my inner city bunker.

Deciduous lol… it’s a nice little spot in southern maryland. Flood plain in front of me and old govt land behind me = no neighbors looking in my windows (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif)

[wonkipop]

i see you are keeping up with the copper weld through primer.
vastly improving on the flawed original.

nice view from the driveway.
trees? what are they? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) its bitumen and bluestone around my inner city bunker.

Deciduous lol… it’s a nice little spot in southern maryland. Flood plain in front of me and old govt land behind me = no neighbors looking in my windows (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif)

you have got the perfect pad.

i wouldn't mind pulling out of the driveway to that view. trees!

i am over the city at the moment.
dickhead dan really wrecked the joint.

i am designing a factory flat pack pavilion and looking for a bit of dirt to park it on.
the shed to go with the house for the cars will be bigger than the house.



i've already restored the chair that goes in it so i can sit and watch tv.
#1 mies van der rohe barcelona chair made under license in aus in 1968.
i picked it up for for peanuts about 20 years ago and fixed it up.
no one knew what it was!
its not as good as your f. a. porsche designed dining suite - that is pretty red hot.
or maybe it is?
it sure leaves the usa manufactured mies barcelona chairs for dead.
i won't discuss chinese copies.
its stainless steel, not chrome. and i cannot detect the welds in the cross members.
@JeffBowlsby might be interested. he is an architect?
the chair is engraved by the guy who built it.
it is actually a mistake chair. they welded the lower cross member on upside down.
one of a set of 4. the first one was wrong.
they used to be in the department of treasury here in melbourne.



one mies chair.
one 914.
one shed. 2 french cars always broken down with a german car threatening to break down.
and a factory built flat pack passive house standard triple glazed glass pad and i am done.

just need some trees. and an internet connection to some blokes who know where to get bits for an L jet. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[JeffBowlsby]

Nice Barcelona, and the foam core takes me back a few years. We have not figured out an elegant rainwater recapture solution here.

This pushes my buttons in several levels:

https://www.dwell.com/home/mid-century-mode...vation-192b588f

[Van B]

Wow! You guys are really speaking my design language here!

I sketched this guy many years ago when I was considering buying and old city lot. I envisioned the first floor being all shop space with 2nd floor living and 3rd floor bedrooms… but then I moved to MD and lived in a few multi floor houses and decided I hate it lol. I’m a single floor guy.

[Van B]

Oh and Happy new year wonki!

[wonkipop]

ah yes @JeffBowlsby .

whats not to like about the translation of mid century singular homes the Case Study program did into mass market homes by Streng Brothers and others. there were also the Eichler Homes? back when being progressive meant being progressive!

All the case study architects were my heroes when i was first an architecture student. i was going against the flow - michael graves was at the height of his powers. Later when i was a grad student i got to meet Craig Elwood but thats another story.

just do blunt rainwater storage systems here though flying downpipes are my speciality.
i stack everything on circular concrete tanks. pv cells. heat exchangers. etc.
half the tank is for fire fighting with the country houses.
most architects try to hide the rainwater tanks. why bother is my philosophy. the lunar module is my inspiration when it comes to buildings these days. far as i am concerned the earth is an alien planet. or soon will be.

happy new year.

[wonkipop]

Wow! You guys are really speaking my design language here!

I sketched this guy many years ago when I was considering buying and old city lot. I envisioned the first floor being all shop space with 2nd floor living and 3rd floor bedrooms… but then I moved to MD and lived in a few multi floor houses and decided I hate it lol. I’m a single floor guy.

love a raking window jamb.

like you i hate stairs.
i did one of those multi storey town houses years ago for my business partner.
right across the lane from the bunker.
its got a lot of stairs.
and the longest piece of glass you could get in australia. 7 meters.
real fun getting it in 4 storeys above the ground. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
half the building was already there. we added some more and went to town.
we put the living room on the top floor to grab the view. it has a small lift.
its got a real weird room right up on the roof. his son lives in that room. calls it the attic.



happy new year.
its already 23 here.

[porschetub]

My cleaning job dislodged enough rust from the weep hole in the jack plates that I decided I need to have a look. Glad I did. This thing was as nasty on the inside as barbra streisand lol!


I did get lucky however and the top half of the jack plate still had most of its coating on and only superficial rust. The misery of this bottom half is certainly due to the mud nests that were inside for who knows how long.

What are your plans for the bent jack reciever ?,mine had the same issue and the top just peeled off when I tried the jack but was lucky as the sill cover was removed and I have a jack stand handy.

On another note I'am using sill spacers so the crap just drops out the gap they make,no build up of road crap as I proved ,got them from Stoddard a while back,part 914-559-127-10 and called a distance washer,cheers.

[wonkipop]

@porschetub

yikes.

i confess i carry around a scissor jack with my car.
i hadn't thought about the jack receiver failing like that but.
my distrust is of the VW jack itself.
i once had my squareback fall of the jack when i was changing the tyre.
i was young. i was way the F#$k in the flinders ranges in the outback miles from anyone. an aboriginal ranger drove past me after a couple of hours and pulled a scissor jack out of his toyota and we managed to get the car back up and change the wheel.
cracked a couple of beers out of my esky with him.
never trusted the VW jack again.

[Van B]

@porschetub

I’ve never used them and hadn’t planned on replacing them, but I suppose now is the time!

Maybe I’ll cut the top and weld in a double thick top plate?

[wonkipop]

@porschetub

I’ve never used them and hadn’t planned on replacing them, but I suppose now is the time!

Maybe I’ll cut the top and weld in a double thick top plate?

its a stress failure at the edge of the fold in the tube.
that says to me VW engineers got that one wrong at the start.
can only take so many loadings?

reinforce it with a U tube wrapping over from top if its possible to get a section to suit.
just a plate on top will not be adequate.

is this kind of jack receiver failure common to older 914s?

its thirty years since i have looked at mine but i don't recall any distortions back then.
and they have had had ZERO use during my ownership of the car.
looking at those i am glad i have always looked at the jack suspiciously.

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EDIT
or the receiver tube demands the jack is absolutely perpendicular.
any slight angle of the jack point loads the end of the tube and peels it open?
how many occasions do you have where changing a tyre you cannot get the jack exactly vertical. which is how my squareback slid of the jack.