MadaboutKitcars

Sorry to hear, you musy be gutted losing 4 days of build time

You are the first bloke to get it Landmannnn! Smack on" what a bastard!

Just checked your thread Scottie. Sorry to hear about your blip, hope the doc managed to fix your pump well enough to keep it working for another good few decades. I'm sure you can fabricate a replacement in ally if necessary...

Keep up the good work but don't go rupturing anything.

Thanks Mr T. :-)

Speed

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Being off the scene. for a while has had the positive effect of allowing me to plan ahead, identify and solve problems, inasmuch as working out materials needed, strengths and sizes etc, so apart from the obvious, the time was not totally wasted.

Scottie nice piece of Walnut you have fitted , Geoff .

That is not of course the car I am building...............

But you knew that didn't you geoff ? Didn't you geoff?

For a speedo option; if you have a smart phone there are many free apps available for smartphones now. I have downloaded this one to use after a speeding indiscretion....

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binarytoys.speedometer&hl=en

Thanks for that Baz, some one else suggested the same thing.
There seems to be mixed feelings over whether it is a good idea or not.
However, I don't own a smart phone! i

Scottie looking at the quality of your work! anything is possible Geoff .

work.

Don't you believe it Geoff

In the end, it often comes down to compromise.

I sometimes bodge like most people, but as they say:

it's only a bodge if it's spotted!

Scottie, look after your ticker mate, your build is going well, a question about seats, my local scrap yard has a late 90's Jag XJ6, I have had the side repeaters off it for my kit but fancy the seats for my other prodject, question is do remove the whole seats, motors and all and fit them to the botom frame I have or remove the leather only and re pack it on the whole frames. Any advice?

Seats

Hi Tony,

The seats I have are a lot simpler with no electrics, and my car interior will be so tight and cramped, (I LOVE it that way!) that the Jag seats would have been way too wide. (21 inches, my seat space is only around 16 inches

I only wanted the leather as a start point for the seats, I chucked the frames, runners and all the rest out, at 6 foot, I need my bum as close to the floor as I can get it and most likely have saved 5 inches or so doing what I've done.

I was even going to drop the floor at one stage, but the car is so low now, I would need tin underpants to keep my botty off the tarmac!

Whether or not you keep any of the steel bits will really depend on the internal width of your car, and what ride height you would like you head at?

I will have my 3 inches of bum foam on a flat bit of alloy on the floor and ditto for the back.

I'll make it fit me. so will not need adjusters or any complicated stuff. So it has to be mega-light also.

Tony, it just occurred to me that if you have good seats already in the car, which fit, work and adjust, then just take the seat squab and back squab out, strip the outer covers off and replace with the Jag ones.
You may have to chop a bit here and there of course.
Keep me posted.

Last seat stripped

Well, over the last couple of days I have been trying to catch up on admin tasks, and all the other things that get ignored when you are not present for a few days.

Could not face the cold tent, so I carried the last (best) jaguar seat into my lounge and stripped it from it's frame.

Really comfortable environment to work in!
Must do more of that!

The picture did not turn out well, but the seat did.

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How many of those stripy cotton sheets were made in the 50s, 60s and 70s? And, did the producer realise what a service they were providing to car builders of the future? I have (and have had) many stripy rags and dust sheets courtesy of my grandmother.

Nice work, Scottie.

Ha Ha! They are brilliant aren't they Oxford!

Scottie - Every job counts!

Although my advice would be never to count all the jobs remaining!

I am looking forward to seeing your finished seats in the car.

Good luck, Paul.

Call me mr pedantic but aren't those sheets winceyette rather than cotton...

I thought they were flanalette!

Come, come, chaps. Flannelette IS cotton - it's napped (brushed), and the weft is usually coarser than the warp. Winceyette is flannelette with a napped surface on both sides. Really!

[Thanks to Wikipedia, and too much time]

winceyette - cotton flannelette with a nap on both sides

sheets

Well!

I'm totally blown away by all the interest in my scabby old dust sheet!

In actual fact it is just smooth cotton.

Wow.

If you want intelligent discussion, you will need to block Sammio/Ribble builders from the Tribute pages.

Egyptian cotton, hotel quality!