Thread: 51 MG restoration.

5000 pc puzzle. I like that analogy.

And thanks for the kudos gents. We are a bunch of crafty old shite’s in this club.
Second patch was easier then the first.

Hardest part was find room to swing the hammers. But this step prevented panel stretch in the wrong direction.



Might call it a day and leave the lips for milder weather..
Making cottage roll for supper...

Cheers..

Are you going to shoot that yourself Mike or are you going to take it to a shop?

One of the personal challenges on this was to do it all myself, where she sits, so I will be painting her myself in the shed and garage as pieces prior to final assy. Like would have been done originally.
Haven’t finalized paint type yet as in between solid base or base and clear coat, but she will be green still. Found an inspirational shot of one similar, but newer than mine, complete with the black top, which was not a standard choice.

As far as my own, I decided to mount the full runners before going any further on the rears as they all need to align later.
The front flares bolt to unaltered original main frame, as such I know they will be on their original lines still, but from the running board back it gets into my custom stuff. There is only one hole through the actual frame at the front of the running boards to reference, the other two go through the wood and sheet metal only which on my car now are clean slates. So I pulled the quarter skins back off and hand drill through the ash main beam from the frame side as I had to start at the reference hole.
That took some time.. no room for any power tools beyond a stubby screwdriver handle. About 40 minutes of twisting and chuckling at how stupid I was for not doing these holes earlier.



Loose I see gaps everywhere but when I use clamps where the bolts will be again, things look tighter. And most important, the three sections all marry up to each other, and the fenders! Another big deal from an overall alignment perspective.

Starting to really get into the air tool part of the project and decided my old 30 gallon devilbiss was just to frickin loud for residential evening car repairs, and that’s my time available so it had to go.
Sold it on marketplace and added more cash and upgrade to a Ultra Quiet oil less system called hulk.

Only a 10 gallon tank, but at less than 40 dB the tools themselves will be louder than the compressor. And oil less means no paint concerns beyond water separation at the gun.
Should be delivered by Sunday to my local store.

This toy will pay for itself in any number of other projects too, down the road. YouTube the compressor to hear for yourself gents, I had no idea they had improved them this much lately, noise wise..
And the specs seem pretty impressive so while smaller, it running more often to recover won’t really matter.
Cheers gents.

Nice! I've been eyeing a quiet compressor for a while now. My current one doesn't have enough oomph for applications needing anything beyond minimal CFM, and the quiet option seems a really sensible way to go. At least for us home gamers.

The compressor I recently bought for work is small and has a very high output, even better than many of the very large compressors, but it’s very loud.

My old one had a large tank, and good CFM but even after insulating, and all sorts of noise reduction the thing was just resonating with that deep ground vibrating energy. And I was just so aware of the tone it was stopping me from working on the car when I wanted to.
Neighbors haven’t said anything but I want to be a good neighbor still and not have any resentment between houses.
The new one still puts out almost 6cfm @90, and 8.5 at 40. Plus it has dual outlets stock so I will piggy back my old mastercraft 10 gallon compressor tank in parallel with this one and have 20 gallons of accumulator still.
Should allow for 60-120 seconds of intermittent media blast, but easily drive everything else indefinitely.
Husky sold a cheaper model that put out 175 psi, but was still almost 70 dB..
Happy with the Hulk, but it should be green with a name like that.

Hope they still deliver it since I heard we are going into a third province wide lock down? GDI!

40 decibels sounds too good to be true--

https://audiology-web.s3.amazonaws.c...5.32730330.pdf

I agree Roy, and yet.

Hearing is believing.. I’ll let ya know how it sounds in person.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

40 decibels sounds too good to be true--

Something I've been wondering since thinking about these things: is there a standard for measuring their noise? I.e. how far is the mic when the measurement is taken?

One of the ones I've looked at is by California Air Tools. They say it has a 70db, but it sure is quiet compared to what I'm used to. I wonder if they are measuring it right by the machine while others are tested from a certain distance?

I'd already checked out that video and I still find it hard to believe that it's anywhere near 40db.

Here's what a rep for a Decibel Meter said about 30 db/according to the rep, a normal quiet room might be as high as 45 db