The 'look at what I did today' thread

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:03 pm

Same car...

Post by **Vtecmec** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:30 pm

Same jobby, different bucket.

Post by **Gayno** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:08 pm

Yep, but this is the hatchback not an estate, so already having trouble carrying all the kit around that I need.

Also a lot less equipment for the same price, doesn't even have cruise control

Post by **indigolemon** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:27 pm

But you're now officially entitled to drive right up the arse of any other vehicle and pass cyclists really really closely, so there is a silver lining...

Post by **Gayno** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:34 pm

Yeah, that was another reservation I had, that now as soon as I get in the driving seat, I'm labelled a gentleman's sausage before I've even gone anywhere!!

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:47 pm

yeah audi drivers are the new Volvo bmw drivers

Post by **Donald** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:53 pm

Gayno wrote:Yeah, that was another reservation I had, that now as soon as I get in the driving seat, I'm labelled a gentleman's sausage before I've even gone anywhere!!

You didn't need an Audi for that.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:41 pm

So today was the day to get started.
Two men, some paint, a tape measure, some string, a shovel, a concrete floor, a 2-stroke cut-off saw and a breaker, all put together for the first time...

What could possibly go wrong?

Many thanks to @Donald for giving up his day today to come and help, couldn't have got this far without your help and worked like a proper trooper

Started marking out the approximate location of the ramp and from that, working out where the pads are to go, to give us the cut lines;

Neither of us had ever used a cut-off saw before, but after taking a while to work out how to put the petrol in...

we did a really good job with it to be honest.

Difficult to see in the pic above, but that's a full width cut line where the new front of the new strip slab will go (and with about half of the screed broken up ready to be lifted out);

And 2 rear pads, 650x650 and excavated to about 350 deep;

So tomorrow I just need to finish breaking up the front strip and dig that out (that's a lot of soil to remove!) and then it's ready to place the reinforcement and be poured.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:45 pm

This also happened today though and wasn't so good...

Can anyone guess what this is?

(2 pics, same thing)

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:55 pm

Nice work on the floor

Are those pics of some kind of French hydraulic system that's taken a jobby per chance