[Surferdude]

Pics of your house are great.
Feel free to keep us updated. I'm sure plenty of us are interested.

[Dazzler]

Pics of your house are great.
Feel free to keep us updated. I'm sure plenty of us are interested.

 

[Phil №❶]

Well, IMHO you bought the best house in the street. Think of the value you've added, well done. Sad about the relationship, but strong ones will endure, even when tested, better to find out now. Our 2 Admin's could give you some pointers perhaps. 

I'd actually like to see more pixs.

Once again, well done.

[2i30s]

i actually miss your posts Ian,great job on the house .    at first  i thought your ex misses had trashed the house,but then all was revealed. 

[Doggie 1]

Thanks for the pics. Looks interesting. 

[Asterix]

 

Looking good..

[agentr31]

cheers guys! ill try and upload more photos!

Well, IMHO you bought the best house in the street.

HA!! it WAS the worst, now its pretty good!

at first  i thought your ex misses had trashed the house.

nah she did a lot of work here... i don't think she would trash it! hahahah i don't think there is much interesting to my posts... i dribble 5#17 most of the time...

Thanks for the pics. Looks interesting. 

ohh it was interesting... interesting to find walls stuffed with bunnings catalogues, then plastered over... as if they stole the catalogues at the door of bunnings when they were getting plaster!

and a wall with a cut up licence in it, cigarette buts, a joint and beer caps! WHO DOES THAT! ohh and the smell... THE SMELL OHH GOD MY NOSE!


the main bedroom, had no carpet, just the wood around the edge with nails in it BUT, when they moved the bed (it was a mattress with no sheets, doona's or ANYTHING and one pillow) out of there, the concrete was BLACK, filthy dirty stained where they had been walking.

it took pool chlorine and MILLIONS of mosquito coils to get the smell out of that one room...

[Dazzler]

How the other half live eh,  Ian..! 

It's like D1ckh3ads that vandalise public toilets.. Don't they have to use such things? 

[agentr31]

ohh yeah... i don't understand why people do that... just inconsiderate!

[agentr31]

ryane wanted a video of the exhaust with the rear muffler removed! well here it is...

[Phil №❶]

Can't really hear the exhaust from inside the cabin and our turbo doesn't whine like that. I thought that meant trouble if you can hear the turbo whine.

[ryane]

THanks agent31

[agentr31]

as most of you probably know, I've always got a little (or large) project going on most of the time!

well, my old man cracked it with me now having a tow bar on the i30 and his trailer ending up living in my garage (literally) and not his!

so i get a call, 'I've got a suprise for you, come here after work' said dad.... thinking he has bought a new car, or finally lined the shed inside or put power to the shed from the house, i go there and BAM...

THE WORLDS WORST LOOKING TRAILER, and i mean complete S#17... its didn't even have a chassis number or an identification plate because its so old... (found out it was built in 1983)bubbles of rust, surface rust, RUST ON RUST!! a corner fully rusted out, XD falcon steel rims with tyres so perished just looking at it was a OH&S hazard!!

then dad busts out 'shes got potential look some one has replaced the floor recently, and its heavy duty, look at that steel, its THICK'... and I'm like  POTENTIAL!! you mean hours of work!!

anyway, i cut the floor out, welded new cross braces in, added two more, one at each end, cut the rust out and put new steel in, put a wire wheel on the grinder and spend a full day buffing the surface rust off.

then came the paint!!! zinc rich  2 pack primer, then 3 coats of 'gold'n yella' 2 pack, all put on with the 'little ripper'



a set of EL falcon mag wheels, new LED tail lights, new number plate lights, wack some new wiring in it with some 'corro' over it to make it look professional, some new tail gate clips and LOWERING IT!! cant have a lowered car, with out a lowered trailer LOL

painting! yes even the underside got paint, infact even the underside of the floor got done!


its the little touches that make it look good!


all finished and on her maiden voyage...

[Doggie 1]

Great job. Looks excellent. 

[Phil №❶]

That's fantastic, but is there a b4 shot.

I've got my late Father's trailer and it too is showing its age. Inspiring work. 

[rustynutz]

Yeah, looks great...but, like Phil said, have you got a "before" shot? 

[Shambles]

Great job.


Is it the sun, or did someone start painting while the wheels were still attached?

[rustynutz]

Actually, there doesn't look to be much clearance between the tyres and the guards....

[Dazzler]

You are a machine Ian (very impressive) 

[Glacius]

wow haha !that is geat! well done sir, that color is  STRICKING! but love your car, wish mine was white  =/

glac

[agentr31]

That's fantastic, but is there a b4 shot.

no, but im sure you can imaine what a trailer from 1983 looks like, basically the sides were fine. there was a deacent hole in the font about 50c coin sized with heaps of bubbles around it, then the front door had a corner rusted out.

bubbles of rust on everything, and the cross braces under were totally rotten!! ohh and they just stuck the new floor on the old one, causing rust on the new floor, hence the yellow around the of the floor, and the underside is fully sealed!

there were heaps of drilled holes too i filled in, for some reason the tail lights had heaps of holes behind them!! the rear valance panel needed attention, the number plate had collected dirt behind it and it had rusted fairly severely, and lots small rust holes (brass/copper plate behind steel is good for filling holes up)

Great job.


Is it the sun, or did someone start painting while the wheels were still attached?

i used the old rims and tyres to prop up the front tailgate when i was painting, the front panel pulls off so you can put long things through the trailer like 3 seater lounges!

do people have box trailers in the UK??

Actually, there doesn't look to be much clearance between the tyres and the guards....

35 mm or so, it has very heavy duty springs, 4 leafs and thicker than the new ones they sell now...

heres two shots of it in pimer these are the only ones before the yellow




this section of the lower left hand side of the front door was rusted out,70mm long and it went up into the verticle riser about 30mm, its got a smear of body filler in it now. ohh and aso the piece UNDER the door that sits on the 'A frame' ad connects the two side chassis rails on the front, you cant see that, but that got reinforced too!



here is how i fixed the rusted out door panel, i stitched some angle iron on to the door, behind the panel, with some tidy little welds top as shown and some under that are hidden.



this section was rusted out too, looks like dirt was building up behind the rusted out front section and infront of here. you can see the weld in the corner showing here i put the new plate in (roughly where my fingers are)



the repair infront  from a distance



here you can see the pitting, its fairly obvious up close... but honestly im not running body filler over the whole trailer!!



behind the number plate was rotten too,  repaired it, and filled it, then put the number plate and rego label holder on spaced off the body so dirt cant accumulate there again and do the same thing!

[Phil №❶]

Terrific 

[rustynutz]

 

Almost easier to build a newie, Ian...lol

[Dazzler]

Almost easier to build a newie, Ian...lol

I must admit I thought the same thing   

However, more satisfaction in resurrecting an old one (you can see how proud Ian is ) and rightly so too 

[Phil №❶]

Now you can give your Dad his scratched and banged up trailer back. 

[rustynutz]

Will be interesting to see how long before the rust starts popping out again....

In the meantime, it looks great! 

[agentr31]

Almost easier to build a newie, Ian...lol

Nah, costs more I checked it out months ago...

Now you can give your Dad his scratched and banged up trailer back. 

Done lol

Will be interesting to see how long before the rust starts popping out again....

 have used marine grade paints... Zinc rich 2 Pak primer followed by a polyurethane 2 pak gloss paint, 4 coats all up it will only rust if there is no paint there and there is enough! Also it's stored in the garage!

[Doggie 1]

Top job all round. 
I am jealous of your skills. 

[Dazzler]

Top job all round. 
I am jealous of your skills. 

 

I can work with wood and paint but never tried Welding 

[Phil №❶]

I bought a Mig welder to repair my old car that was written off. It's a bugger when you mis co-ordinate and strike the electrode b4 eye protection. Thinking of getting an auto darkening visor, anyone got any recommendations.