He’s only gone and used the welder…

On a sad note, I heard that the old boy I got this car from passed away on Christmas Eve  Hopefully he’ll have approved of what I’m up to. R.I.P. fella… OK, I actually feel guilty for not doing anything of late  The last few weeks have been filled with visiting friends and family, and trying to get the house purchase sorted out – pretty difficult when everyone takes 3 weeks off…

How hard can it be to weld, eh?

Well, today didn’t turn out quite how I expected, which seems to be par for the course at the moment  Yesterday’s viewing of a house with a “detatched double garage” turned out to be a pokey workshop where the front wall was made of breezeblocks with fake doors screwed on the outside  Started off with some general beads to get a feel for the welder and playing about with the wire…

Roll out the MIG welder

Next on the list should have been a weekend of working on the car, but I ended up spending it driving a Transit to Newcastle twice and filling it up with house bits  When I get the chance though, the next thing on the list will involve playing with a Mig welder  I learnt to gas weld years ago, but that was always on the understanding that the student’s would…