Scrapheap Challenge!!!!......

[The Negotiator]

Court marshalled, ouch!

Luckily he was only supervising, but then again it could have been a nuclear weapon (even he was never told). After the RAF he bought a petrol station/garage, decided it wasn't for him after 6 months so worked for Nottingham Uni until he retired (various research and technician jobs) - all this from a man who was born in a farmhouse in one of the most rural areas in Poland and had to leave engineering school with the Polish airforce when the Germans and Russkies decided to pop over).

I could give you stories of all the weird things that had happened (including a secret service one) but I doubt he would be too happy - already given out his life!

Anyway, yeah, he has until now always done good towards me in practical work

 

[Liam]

RE: Welding ability, the machines are marked on looks so the welds could be very messy but aslong as they hold it would be fine.

I'm considering applying as a one man team!

Liam

 

[The Negotiator]

Yeah but you only getting good at welding (be it neat or otherwise) through practise, few on here will have had such practise. Like many I relied on a friend when I needed it doing lol.

 

[serin]

hey, why one man, when you 2 other people who want to do it

hold on!!! one plus 2 equals 3!!!!! JONNYBOY we got ourselves a team

 

[Liam]

It's not as hard to get a hold as you think, MIG welding is easier than oxy and other types require specialist training just to get them to work.

Liam

 

[Liam]

I'd likely argue over the best way to do stuff!

Reckon I could get a 30hour build time to compensate?

Liam

 

[The Negotiator]

Haha, well can you imagine me being in a team? 12hrs of arguing

I agree about MIG welding though, anybody can learnt that simply in an hour or two, I only didn't at school because my project didn't need it.

 

[Neofolis]

What about TIG welding that's supposed to be even easier, although I doubt they would have TIG welder's readily available.

My dad now has a finance company, slight change of career path. Mind you, so was my going from IT management to Plumbing.

 

[dawn_of_time]

I nominate Kev

He can make anything out of a pile of cr*p

 

[Argo]

Im not saying anything lol

Yup, Kev would be good at it

Go on owd chap (lol) you know you want to! hehe

 

[JonnyBoy]

I agree about MIG welding though, anybody can learnt that simply in an hour or two, I only didn't at school because my project didn't need it.

Nah. You can pick up MIG welding in an hour maybe, but to do it properly and get a decent, strong and tidy joint takes a lot longer to learn. And TIG welding is much harder as there's no automatic wire feed; it's more like oxy-acetylene welding in that you use an arc to generate heat and feed a filler metal in manually. Needs a lot of skill to do it well.

 

[Neofolis]

I was only going by an episode of John's Workshop I saw where he was getting the village blacksmith to do some metalwork for him and he had a go at TIG welding.

Actually I do sometime have to do OA welding of lead pipes at work, thats a right pain in the arse, especially as lead is so soft and any lead pipework is over 50 years old now.

 

[Dan]

The guys at the garage where i work are planning on entering. To get on u have to show u can build stuff. They are about to put a 3ltr rover v8 in the back of a metro. According to the chief mechanic its a perfect fit. lol

 

[J333EVO]

The guys at the garage where i work are planning on entering. To get on u have to show u can build stuff. They are about to put a 3ltr rover v8 in the back of a metro. According to the chief mechanic its a perfect fit. lol

It must fit, just, cos Rover did something similar themselves many years ago with a 3L V6, then gave it 4WD and called it the Metro 6R4 which at one time was the fastest accelerating car in the world to 60!

See here!

http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?mgrev6r4f.htm

 

[Dan]

So techically if they get it goin it should be bloody fast. lol? Gives us somin to do in our lunch break

 

[JonnyBoy]

V8 Metro? Pah. Kids' stuff. Transit van, 27-litre Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 aero engine...

 

[J333EVO]

Funny you should mention the Merlin engine (Spitfire?) because there was a picture a while ago in some Classic motor mag I was flicking through in Borders with one of those in a Rover SDi (the wedge shaped one)

 

[Liam]

Didn't someone put one in a car in the 70's?

There was a high court battle and stuff over the use of the Spirit of Ecstasy because the car used was a Scimitar.

I could be wrong however.

Liam

 

[Neofolis]

OK, I have watched a few programmes on Discovery Home & Leisure like a bike is born, a chopper is born, a 4x4 is born, etc. Either way Mark Evans builds all these things from scratch and he is a complete novice, he is a vet by trade, although he does take a whole series to build these things, might be a bit pushed in the SC time limits.

 

[Steven]

Todays Scrapheap Challenge;

Build a Cinq from 3 McDonalds paper cups and 5 pipe cleaners...