ajmac Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 (edited) It took me ages to find that grip strip for the Loyd drivers footrests. In the end I found it as my local fab shop who had made some mezzanine stairs, for which its used as grip strip at the edge, hence 'nosing'. They found three one metre lengths in there off-cuts bin for me. Edited April 11, 2018 by ajmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero-Five-Two Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Didn't realise that tread stuff was called pyramid nosing. Anyway I got loads of 5 metre lengths for my timber tractor a couple of years ago from Albert Jagger Ltd 01922 471000 or www.albert-jagger.co.uk they do all sorts of mouldings and brackets etc for truck body building Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andypugh Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 18 hours ago, Old Bill said: A million hits? Good heavens! It's probably about 20 lunatics reading it 50,000 times. :-) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asciidv Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Well, there is Ben, Me and you, so we only need 17 more to make the numbers up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatchFuzee Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 39 minutes ago, Asciidv said: Well, there is Ben, Me and you, so we only need 17 more to make the numbers up! Only 16 needed now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Herbert Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Count me in ! David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prague1996 Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 .....and me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armouredfarmer Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 In the words of Spike Milligan.... enter a fresh lunatic 13 to go 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughman Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 I'll be 12 then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nz2 Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Confirms me as a lunatic as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cel Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 This is all getting a bit 'Monty Python' I feel! WHilst putting the footbrake together, I realised that I had given Dad a wrong dimension and that the pull rod he had made was too short. I have, therefore, made up a slightly longer one. Meanwhile, Dad has picked up the horrible job of cleaning up the bonnet for painting. He tells me that everything is now pink! Hopefully, he will be able to get the first coat of Bondaprime on tomorrow. I have been finishing off the differential spider. First job was to modify the drilling jig so that it would fit over the casting. Then I used the optical centre punch to pick up on the circle that Father had scribed on the back when he turned it. Then just drill through in the mill, one step at a time. The holes are not to size yet as I don't have a reaming size drill for 5/8" dia. There is one on order and I hope to get it tomorrow. Lamp brackets next! Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 On 10/04/2018 at 9:58 AM, Grasshopper said: Pyramid nosing (which I didn't know the name of) is used extensively on ex London Transport busses (think RT, RF vintage). AEC lorry cabs had it in the 50's and 60's as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Back in the day it was used almost universally on trucks and buses. I must have trodden on the stuff literally millions of times but never gave a thought to what it was called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmac Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 I check your thread everyday, its the only thing I open HMVF for nowadays, sadly you are nearing completion which unless you guys have another project in the wings will be the end of an era :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1950 Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 (edited) This as the Great man said, is only the end of the beginning. This illustrious team may have another project waiting in the wings but this vehicle and team now have a future to be reported on together. I have looked forward to each enstallment with eager antisipation, it is not only about the truck its about the people as well, behind the hands on workers there must be a moral support team we have to thank them as well for our entertainment. I hope that the team take time and enjoy the vehicle before taking on anything else. There are also Bedford, Dodge, Dennis, Militant, Simitar, to name just a few of the other restorations going on in various places around the world. Also bikes and cars so plenty of work to see the progress on, and the different ways of overcoming tin worm problems Edited April 14, 2018 by john1950 addition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andypugh Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 1 hour ago, ajmac said: I check your thread everyday, its the only thing I open HMVF for nowadays, sadly you are nearing completion which unless you guys have another project in the wings will be the end of an era :-( Have you seen the (extremely similar) 1914 Dennis and 1908 Dennis threads? Whilst the 1914 is approaching completion, the 1908 looks like it has plenty of time to run. (I feel something of a link to the 1908, I first saw it in-situ under the house where it was entombed) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Herbert Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Don't worry guys, they have a rather nice chassis / cab Peerless waiting in the wings and another in kit form to use any parts left over from the first. Our evenings are secure for some time ! David 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmac Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 (edited) ....and relax......But the other WW1 threads are good too Andy, I shouldn't take away from those. Edited April 13, 2018 by ajmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monty2 Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 count me in as one of the 20 lunatics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 We are very glad that you are enjoying it all. We like having you along for the ride as it gives us another incentive to keep at it. This part of the project is getting hard to maintain and it would be very easy to stop without your support so thank you for that. Just on three weeks to go! The progress chart is not doing very well so to help things along, I have moved the final target by taking off evry task we can manage without. That gives us the red line as the final target assuming that we don't fit the tool box, the petrol tin brackets, the shovel bracket and so on. Nothing will be wrong. It is just that some bits won't be there! Too many items will be fitted in the final few days but we should do it. (fingers are crossed at this point....) Anyway, my new drill turned up today so I have drilled and reamed the holes in the differential spider. The reamer, by the way, was a gift from a work colleague which was very kind. However, he had been using it to stir paint so it took some serious cleaning up! Spider is now complete and ticked off the list. Lamp brackets tomorrow. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 Something else we could manage without are the sidelamp brackets. However, they are very much part of the appearance of the lorry so I have been pushing on wiuth them. We are fortunate to have one original bracket. However, it had been squeezed up to carry an electric lamp and also snapped off and welded at some point.It looks very much like a casting to me although it could be a forging. It is quite sifficult to see how it was made. However, if a casting, I felt that my chances of bedning it back without snapping it were slim. However, I had to have a go. I tried bending it red hot in the vice using an adjustable spammer for leverage. Amazingly, I got away with it. And he second bend. To flatted nt eshank, I put it in the press where I could control the force nicely. Well, that was a bit of luck. I was expecting to ruin it but in the end, it came out OK and I only had to make one more. I had some pices laser cut or, I suspect, plasma cut as the main part is 15mm and quite tapered. It is elliptical in section so a lot of angle grinding and filing later, we had this. I also filed the edges of the back plate and cut the straight piece to go in between. This, I did by hand and then again, filed elliptical. Next challenge was to work out how to bend it. In the end, I put it in the press and bent it cold, a little bit at a time and by eye. It came out OK but the surface suffered a lot of bruising which I had to file out afterwards. The holes were drilled for pegs to be located in the top. The pegs were later silver soldered into position. All set up for welding. My welding is still abysmal! Thank goodness for angle grinders and filler! Whilst the filler was going off, I cut the damaged pegs from the original bracket and drilled for new ones. It drilled like cast iron and I am amazed that I managed to bend it without it snapping. After dressing of the filler and another round of filing and polishing, we have a pair of brackets. Very fortunately, I welded the second to be a mirror image of the first, not a direct copy! Even the pegs are the right distance apart. Into the paint shop tomorrow. Steve 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 My best guess on the original is that it is, literally, wrought iron. Not the more common mild steel that we call wrought iron these days. That's why you were able to straighten it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flandersflyer Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 14 hours ago, Old Bill said: Something else we could manage without are the sidelamp brackets. However, they are very much part of the appearance of the lorry so I have been pushing on wiuth them. We are fortunate to have one original bracket. However, it had been squeezed up to carry an electric lamp and also snapped off and welded at some point.It looks very much like a casting to me although it could be a forging. It is quite sifficult to see how it was made. However, if a casting, I felt that my chances of bedning it back without snapping it were slim. However, I had to have a go. I tried bending it red hot in the vice using an adjustable spammer for leverage. Amazingly, I got away with it. And he second bend. To flatted nt eshank, I put it in the press where I could control the force nicely. Well, that was a bit of luck. I was expecting to ruin it but in the end, it came out OK and I only had to make one more. I had some pices laser cut or, I suspect, plasma cut as the main part is 15mm and quite tapered. It is elliptical in section so a lot of angle grinding and filing later, we had this. I also filed the edges of the back plate and cut the straight piece to go in between. This, I did by hand and then again, filed elliptical. Next challenge was to work out how to bend it. In the end, I put it in the press and bent it cold, a little bit at a time and by eye. It came out OK but the surface suffered a lot of bruising which I had to file out afterwards. The holes were drilled for pegs to be located in the top. The pegs were later silver soldered into position. All set up for welding. My welding is still abysmal! Thank goodness for angle grinders and filler! Whilst the filler was going off, I cut the damaged pegs from the original bracket and drilled for new ones. It drilled like cast iron and I am amazed that I managed to bend it without it snapping. After dressing of the filler and another round of filing and polishing, we have a pair of brackets. Very fortunately, I welded the second to be a mirror image of the first, not a direct copy! Even the pegs are the right distance apart. Into the paint shop tomorrow. Steve What made you think it were cast Steve....? As someone else has said it's likely wrought iron... You can tell the difference by braying it with a hammer cold...iron splits into fibres...unlike steel... They'll have had blacksmiths working at Thornycrofts.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 12 minutes ago, flandersflyer said: What made you think it were cast Steve....? I must admit that I am not convinced either way at the moment. The item has a very definite split line along it which suggests to me that it is either a casting or a drop forging. It was one piece originally although there is a weld repair right in the centre. It drilled like cast iron but I don't know how wrought iron drills. Do you get spiral swarf or chips with wrought iron? It is an unlikely shape for a casting but I also can't see how it would have been forged either. Possibly forge it in two goes at 90° to get the mounting flange and then bend the prongs up as a third operation? Still a bit of a mystery. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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