Practically Classics Forum

Today was our third visit with Star, the rescue dog we're looking to adopt. Today we actually took her out for a walk, helping convince the foster that we weren't going to do something absolutely daft the first time we left the house. Everything went well, and it's been agreed that we wi...

Initial experimentation with the soda blaster has yielded an absolutely godawful mess but little progress in terms of shifting the original paint on the Invacar. Hard to tell if that's just my air supply not being up to spec or if it's just further evidence of the paint on there being able to wi...

Pretty quiet day today, which was a nice change as the last couple of weeks have been almost non stop.  Despite having a day off I tend to feel that it's necessary to achieve something in a day, even if it's something small. Having a new set of Invacar pulleys sitting in front of me it was obvious...

In addition to helping a friend collect their car, today I finally was able to get hold of something I've been after for the Invacar for a while to deal with the unhappiness of the transmission at speed. https://i.ibb.co/DzBk5K4/IMG-20190713-193419.jpg That's a pair of new old stock CVT pulleys. The...

Never got around to putting an update up yesterday as by the time I was able to actually sit down for long enough it was just too late.  Felt that I had to *make* some time in the late afternoon to have a look into an issue which had become painfully obvious in the van on the way back home yesterd...

Zip by way of stuff actually done today as I've spent the whole day running around in circles getting the house back in order (and wasting two hours stuck in traffic on the M25). As the van has a busy few days coming up it made sense to top up the fuel... https://i.ibb.co/gRJGNhs/IMG-20190710-165223...

I do reckon that the paraffin gun is going to be a useful tool. I was quite astonished seeing the coverage I got on the van yesterday for a tiny amount of product. Definitely compared to the aerosol cans or the pump sprayer. Here's a question for you lot. Heater and windscreen demister switch will b...

Had a bit of an experiment with the paraffin gun this afternoon. I still had some old underbody wax floating around, so I let it down a bit to a more spray friendly consistency then had a mess around with it. Can't see me ever messing around with aerosol cans for this sort of job again. The s...

Lost most of today as we were making our first trip over to the foster home currently caring for a rescue dog we're looking to adopt. We really feel that this will do a lot to enrich the life of the one we already have, especially given the issues we've had with the communal dog club meanin...

This paint removal process I think is just going to be a long slog. Got a few better scrapers today and they're precisely zero help. With the sharper blades they're just digging in and going straight through the paint and the gel coat, it's just too soft. On a few of the larger flatter panels wher...