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Dr. B. wrote:This is the little-known obscure 'Emmenthal' Komet conversion. Highly desirable!

But the other unique, essential, desirable thing is the owners. Great adventurers out of the Davy Crockatt mould. or is that the Capt Cook mould. Whatever, looking forward to seeing you BOTH at Danby Whiske next year. And I AIN'T cycling!!!

Great thread. Looking forward to the next exciting episode. Makes me cringe when i see sills being swept up of the floor! Magic work MetalMikey and keep smiling Helen, gonna be very jealous when i see the van out n about next year.

Mark

Well i will save a comment to thhat till maybe tomoz
today had the hardest job to do , . decide where to make the cut toi gain access and at the same time make life easy but before coming to that part i have removed the main part of the nsr wing as there was enough tell tale rust for me to be fairly sure that i would not be able to do much with it

even vans that appear to be so called 'rust free' have rust in the seams, its starts at manufacture and some it comes out early .other not yet but they all have it which is why you cannot ever give a guarantee with this sort of thing,only give it your best shot .
so ive decided where to cut and open it like a suicide door

now we can have a proper poke about, not much to poke though
last bit of rubbish out

chassis top cleaned up and dosed with weldthrough,feel happier now stuff is starting to go back in

so i need a new base, easy,make one, ran out of thicker sheet so had to nip out at 5 and cut some

spent half an hour and now a trial fitting, i have deliberately cut the panal at an angle as this is easier to adjust ten a 90', also i have kept the majority of the original as its perfect so will let the new part in to continue the piece 'as built'

and from the other side

i will drill the part over the chassis leg and puddle weld through

final fit in ,its ready to weld in the morning

and the gaps here will be just right to fill with weld so should be easy to sand over and not look like its done

this is the arch after removal of the old lip


will no dopubt cut it off and add a new bit as its too bad to blast in my opinion
this shows the rear wing as its sandwiched between the C post and middle panal, theyre fun to extract as will become evident


got a nice genuine panal or two arriving so gonna be a very happy and enjoyable few days coming up
mm

Forwarded you all the emails with delivery details

Nice to see a piece go back in

Well,Hmm maybe more to come out, and
this was ordered yesterday lunchtime

and arrived lunchtime today, top service and a genuine part,pure joy it is

now i wonder how much will be needed?
welded the rear tray in,this is raw before tidying up

reminds me of doing an NDT in the real world,, scary, not needed to make it perfect as it will be seam sealed

So we open up the jp a little for a decent look

ventilation anyone


Now we are getting serious gonna have to remove the trailing arm ,and cut the mounting off and start again i think, so it looks like a little more of the inner sill will be used,

what else to do? could leave it but then the van would need cutting open again later to sort it..
never a dull moment.
Oh and these pickies are with Cruz's old canon.nice to use ta
mm

I need a stiff drink

dont worry littlemisssunshine, will be like the bionic van by the time mm has finished.

Christ was that van once a pier leg on Blackpools North pier?

dont know but its gruesome. and i can physically move the arm with a biggish bar so. what to do
mm

out of interest mm, what structural parts of the van, if rotten, are unfixable and make the van a write off or can everything be repaired?

Please don't answer that mm or be diplomatic

LittleMissSunshine wrote:Please don't answer that mm or be diplomatic

just dont look if he does

i have yet to see something that I cant repair,structural or otherwise, ,time and hence cost are the limiting factor,if i said that well some years back a new well 900ish mile bay had been crashed and if i recall the roof middle floor and front and osf were all that was salvagable, mid floor back was scrapped, dont know if it was worth it, wasnt my problem but a pig to do.
this will also be entertaining,but in a slightly different way.
mm

This all reminds me of my roof discovery.... Oh what sweet joy that was.
I can imagine the PM's now zooming back and forth.

Dunna panic it's in very safe hands
Mike actually enjoys a pig or two

Cheers Kev, I need to have my stomach surgically stapled back in place Either that or I need one of those heart attack sprays

I do hope the van doesn't prove to be too badly behaved for mm