Richie's Mk1 Restoration

[kevin powles]

hi, sorry I havent got a trip cable, there is a bezal ring which goes on the inside with jacking screw holes in it, i will have a look for it, on the outside there is another ring, this is something you will have to make, if you doing a dash with a british smiths gauge you would not need this ring.

kevin

[martyn]

Hi mate
ref your question to Kevin about what direction to put rivets in. I think when they were built the rivet were put in from the inside out and domed over into the counter sink how ever i found doing them the other way round worked best? if your not going to c/s you r holes i dont think it matters. but looking good mate
I have mine at home in the garage now drove it home last sunday in the snow she went well and top speed was 35mph. can do the last few jobs now and just tinker with her

[RichardT10829]

gerat stuff Martyn... Kevin the front steering box arrived mate so cheers for that. on the rivet front i dont want the outside to appear like boiler rivets if you know what i mean, so will need to have a think on what shape to make the form.

[martyn]

Hi mate you will just have to try a few on a srcap bit of plate and see how they look we went for the uniformed look it works well.
how ever just make sure you fold them over enough and rember if your not sure if there holding just try and remove one hahaha

[RichardT10829]

any special reg that i nede for doing this ? i rigged up a butane bottle to a farfiers forge but just could not get the rivets white hot ? i know that Propane burns at 10 deg more than Butane but is there a special flow rate that i should use ?

[Ron Pier]

I used an Acetylene cutting torch to heat the rivets on my 2 Pounder for removing them. Ron

[Lynn Eades]

Is the blower working on the forge?