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#weirdcarmastodon

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Nathan Avots-Smith
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Rough day yesterday replacing the water pump in the E90. Absolutely vile job. I was supposed to replace the thermostat, too, but the new one broke while trying to wrangle it into place, so I put the old one back in. Whatever.

Anyway, much more cheerful to share these pics my mom sent me of cars she saw on a walk yesterday afternoon. #WeirdCarMastodon

A white Citroën 2CV that appears to have its hood removed, seen from the rear in front of an open garage door on a driveway in Oceanside, California.
A blue Honda Acty pickup, seen from the right rear corner, parked on a driveway in Oceanside, California.
Lewis
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Alright, eight hours without a damn break and this came out of it. It's pretty cool. Upper section looks like lightweight galvanised, because it is, but the bottle is strapped on to two lengths of about a foot of 1"x2" 3mm thick box section at the bottom; the upper part is just for organisation.

Need to hook up the new bottle, tidy up some rough bits, add some paint, and maybe add a tiny toolbox on it for consumables, but that's enough of that for today; I need a kebab.

My welder sitting in the home-made welding cart. It has a large (90cm tall) gas bottle on the back of the cart. It has a raised rear section nearly the height of the bottle with brackets for cables. It has four castor wheels.
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Lewis
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Anyway, before I could get too involved in that I ran one of my 2 disposable welding gas canisters empty. I knew they don't last long, but I expected more than ~two days, and now I know why nobody who does even modest amounts of MIGing bothers with the disposable bottles.

This, of course, has now escalated into a Side Quest.

A disposable bottle of argon/CO2 shield gas; it is in my hand. It is about a foot and a bit long and its diameter fits in my hand.
A re-usable CO2/argon shield gas bottle. It is about 90 centimeters tall and 20 centimeters in diameter. This will replace the disposable bottles.
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Lewis
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There was a small hole in one of them. I could have patched this up with just weld, but the metal was perilously thin for about a half-inch all around it. I plated it from the back; it's neater that way and it might avoid fouling of the U-bolts (there is very little clearance).

The other one was much worse. It has been repaired before, and not too well (in fairness, with the seat welded on the axle there wasn't room to do it well). No idea how I'm going to fix that yet.

A small (about 8mm) hole in my leaf spring seats.
The aforementioned hole, but patched up with steel. The visible surface is flat; the plate has been welded on to the back and the hole was used as a plug weld hole to fill in the gap that remained.
Inside the other leafg spring seat; a crude attempt at welding has left blobs that mostly look like they are sitting on the surface, rather than penetrating the steel, and there are very visible holes in the repair.
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Lewis
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I chopped off the combined leaf spring seats/shock absorber mounts from the axle housing today. It didn't smell as bad as expected; because this was sitting in Green's yard for who knows how long, instead of being caked in grease it was full of leaves. Had the mother of all incense burners in the workshop for a little while.

Removing the remains of axle tubing was easier than I thought; it was only a couple of hours from first cut to finish.

The combined leaf spring seat & shock absorber mount on a Rover P5 axle. It is a steel plate that is welded on to the axle tube spaced from it by about an inch and a bit.
The aforementioned spring seat cut off from the housing, first stage. It is still welded to a piece of axle tubing that has been cut away from the main axle housing; a semi-circle of tubing remains which needs to be removed.
The aforementioned spring seat/shock absorber mount, but with the remains of axle tubing removed from its inside.
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