Tweed clad, Moustacheod Gentleman amateur engineer ( and "Expert" Allan Robinson on the BBC´s " David & Jay´s Touring Toolshed" ) maintains, restores and repairs his own selection of vehicles and shares his interest in all things mechanical from steam, internal combustion powered machines to machining projects in the workshop and discussions on anything that he feels may be of interest to you out there .
Oh yeah, paint issues. How come it never sticks to what you want but any over spray is a bugger to remove! Was an odd soundtrack for the louvre making. Odder even than what that Fred by the Shacks chap in Iowa does!
Yea loving your work as usual Mr tweed old mans porn in my book sorry let a bit to much of my self go there did o mention I passed my cbt on Saturday got my theory on Wednesday but buying a speed triple tomorrow if it’s not already sold but that’s enough about me how’s the bantam coming along ? Hope you haven’t done to much with the French thing without mm precision filming you know I’m a bit of a stickler for this sort of thing 👍🏻
'Cough' !!! Steady now . Congratulations on the passing of your CBT and good luck with theory . The Bantam work is continuing and work has started on Brigette but rest assured progress is being recorded ( even if i can't remember what i done when it gets to putting videos together 😁)
Impressed by your louvres, well done, I guess back in the day theses were all stamped out on a heavy press, a fine effort sir! I need to make hinges for the glove boxes on both Swallows as I cannot find anything of a suitable quality, so that has given me inspiration! My bonnet hinge on the Standard Swallow has fractured in several places and I have done (will do) nothing about it, but seeing how you made your hinge has further inspired me, so will cut my teeth on the small hinges first... then perhaps I will do something about it! Thanks for sharing!
Really nice to see the Riley back centre stage! The panel looks really nice and after a lot of hard work and thought looks like it has always been there, really annoying about the paint problems, I think this is one of the problems of using the "modern" wonder paints that we are forced to use now, just one observation on the louvers, they appear to be upside down and round the wrong way? Is there a reason for that? CO2 the local pub was the best source for that, they used it for the beer pumps. Stay safe! Chris B.
I did study loads of Riley louvres and they do vary, when viewed from the front the openings are directed towards the back of the dynamo to aid cooling, also the airflow is pushing the panel down so hopefully keeping it in place when trotting along and yes the CO2 gas I was using was brewing gas but I wasn't pilfering it from the local.....honest Guv. All the Best
I’ve been coveting your avometer. Although Jenkins calendar did catch my eye as it swooshed past. That was some very fine fabrication. Excellent approach on the loo-vers. 👍👍
Enjoyed your vlog, certainly an creative and individualistic approach that worked very well. Love the jackanory part plus the ramblings, made me laugh out loud with the sound effects. Talking of mig welding I have been at it for over 40 years, using like you co2 at first as you said cheap also i had a contact in the brewing industry who obtained refills when required. Found it welded cooler on thinner steel making less chance of burning through. On trying argon mix for the first time found it very ferocious and wondered if it had a flammable gas mixed in it. Of course it didn't and after making adjustments as required loved the smooth welds and better penetration it offered on good clean steel, although not so forgiving on thinner rusted metal. Even my wife finds your channel entertaining and informative so thats a plus for me. Luckily she is a petrol head too at nearly 70 years old, but still appreciates the sound of certain engines. Merlin, v8s, v and straight 6s give her goose bumps. Love the lathe work to and milling. I did a few years on a set of Herbert multi spindle lathes and in my peak was in charge of three machines at a time, setting up, loading up and re sharpening tooling. It was hard going especially working out gearbox changes for different operations, die heads etc were easy to ruin or smash if timing was wrong. Sometimes wonder how i did it. Only ever did lathe work on single spindle at school in the good old days apparently. TTFN
Thanks Rodney, the sizzling bacon sound is really healthy with argon mix and you are not wrong about getting used to using it, I thought the supplier had sold me a bottle of propane :-) Thanks for the work memories they are always interesting to hear. All the Best Mr Tweed, and pass on my regards to Mrs Perkins, she sounds like a keeper.
its swings and roundabouts, if you don't do much welding then small bottles are fine but if your doing a lot and get through a lot of gas then the bigger rented bottles are financially more economical
It's because the makers are trying to placate the current upcoming generations that don't have the patience to do proper prep. They want to put it on, show it a microwave and be done.
The first rule of painting... The only area where the paint will definitely f*** up is where even the blind will notice it. I'm very impress with your hinge making tool. Cheers from a shed in a secret location in Iowa.
Hi, I have fond memories of the Bantam as I left school aged 15 and joined the GPO as a Telegram Delivery Messenger.. trained and passed on plunger framed D1/3 125cc then went on to the D14/4’s which arrived a little later. In 1971 I started Motorcycle Racing believe it or not a race prepared Bantam 125… I did this for 2 years and progressed into the 250cc class on a Greeves Silverstone/Ducacti 250cc Mach 1/ finishing up on a Suzuki T20 Super Six race prepared… great days!
I cannot say that this is a show that I will continue to watch, I just finished watching one show and cannot say that I enjoyed it. Jay stick to The Repair Shop.
Surely Jenkins in the rear seat serves as your reversing camera? However reversing a Charlesworth bodied saloon Alvis is tricky in the extreme. It is like looking down the wrong end of a telescope. Keep up the good work MrT thank you for posting. Nice piece of kit too.
I thought you were making real progress with the Riley but your tracking is way off, your speedo isn't working and your oil pressure is zero! Speaking of in-car electronics in the early 2000s I worked for a company doing some of the first in car GPS nav units (Navman). I was a developer back then and on the unit one of the first screens you saw when you first started the device was a language picker screen. I put little little flags and the country names to choose from but the screen needed a title which was tricky as you hadn't picked a language yet. So I called it the 'Picka-da-lingo' screen. They wouldn't let me keep than in.
Yea very excited to see how this one goes do we go down the sympathetic resto route just get it safe and road worthy plenty of brass and copper bits to shine up ooooo😂😂❤
That is very interesting, I use a dash cam and a separate TOMTOM gps satnav, the rear-view camera would help with reversing on both Swallows, hmm, will ponder on this, thanks for sharing!
An interesting project, I was hoping you would sit on the seat to get an idea of the riding position, looks quite low down, but probably very comfy. Thanks for sharing.
