VICKERS MK6B's resto

[colin jones]

It is now welded and just need some flap grinding for some neatness.

[colin jones]

I missed a couple of welds but now they are done also. Time for some holes and tapping.

[colin jones]

Almost finished all the holes and tapping today with about a dozen tomorrow. Big job and quite slow.

[David Dunlop]

When you add your data plate, Colin, it deserves to be gold plate!

David

[colin jones]

Yes Dave, unfortunately I'm fresh out of gold plate but I did bolt the side plates on and the front housing. I also put the front shaft in to check its centre with the side curved parts and found a variation of a few mm. The shaft is very good and the speedo helical gears match really well and spins when the shaft turns with no play. That means that the wing parts I put on will need modification. I should have been more careful and triple checked critical parts before I weld them all together. I guess it couldn't all go to plan with out some form of mod . It is not a big job to fix but I will bolt on what ever it takes to get it exact before I weld it back again.

[colin jones]

Well that's about it for fabrication. My transmission casing is all but finished. I have put some gears and other external parts on and it's all good.

[colin jones]

I am really happy with my result and also glad I decided to go this way. I now need to give it a really good clean, de-burr and undercoat. There are a couple of external parts that I need to make so I'll do them now too.