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JC T ONE wrote: time for another anorak moment = one of the original lock handles, with its W&P marking on the back.

surely thats just 'ns' for 'near side'

its always a pain when you mix them up, particually if you also get all the door cards on before you notice!

guru_1071 wrote: surely thats just 'ns' for 'near side'

sure is, but its written by the same WP employee, who also wrote, on all the other parts

guru_1071 wrote: its always a pain when you mix them up, particually if you also get all the door cards on before you notice!

yes once did that with the long ones mind you, you only do it once


another anorak moment = my glass date .







9 = September, 73 = 1973 one piece is a copy thou, it was smashed, before I bought the car.

thats neat, ive never seen tyneside glass.

thats (one of) the bridges that goes over the river (if you didnt know)

guru_1071 wrote:thats neat, ive never seen tyneside glass.

thats (one of) the bridges that goes over the river (if you didnt know)

Wonder if they also made the glass, for the Radford,s ? anyone ?

Did think it looked like a bridge, but never made the connection .

JC T ONE wrote:
Wonder if they also made the glass, for the Radford,s ? anyone ?

Did think it looked like a bridge, but never made the connection .

they are still on the go as well.....

http://www.tynesidesafetyglass.co.uk/

guru_1071 wrote:

they are still on the go as well.....

Thanks, and yes but they dont deal with private costumers, so I will contact a glass maker,
to see if I can have a proper Tyneside made . that would be neat

I still have a few bits, of the org broken window as I hoped something like this, might happen one day



Have a look at this.
The person who changed the wheel bearings, didnt do a very good job.
He fitted a std ball bearing set
but also didnt put any grease around the axle, so it was completely rusted solid to the seperator / inner bearings.

BIG tools had to come out

The worst part, are not that the collars, had snapped off (all 4) the collars were gone
wonder what happened ? any one have an idea ? as they cant just vanish (trapped between the disc & hub)

JC T ONE wrote:... I will contact a glass maker,
to see if I can have a proper Tyneside made . that would be neat

I still have a few bits, of the org broken window as I hoped something like this, might happen one day
...

Jens, I've never tried it, but I reckon you could etch the Tyneside logo onto new glass yourself. If you were to use the laser printer technique used for making printed circuit boards to prepare a stencil for the glass, then etch it with one of the glass etching creams that are readily available, it should work. You've already got a good photo of what it should look like so it should be reasonably straightforward to transfer it to the glass and etch it.

Edit: of course I'm not the first person to have thought of this.
http://www.curbly.com/users/diy-maven/p ... nsfer-film

Tim

guru_1071 wrote:thats neat, ive never seen tyneside glass.

thats (one of) the bridges that goes over the river (if you didnt know)

It's the one in the back ground



PS Jens I will have a chat with the mate of mine with the Cooper that has Tyneside glass in. He has connections in the trade, so may be able to help.

guru_1071 wrote:thats neat, ive never seen tyneside glass.

thats (one of) the bridges that goes over the river (if you didnt know)

Rich you should come and ride on the Metro!

JC T ONE wrote:

guru_1071 wrote:thats neat, ive never seen tyneside glass.

thats (one of) the bridges that goes over the river (if you didnt know)

Wonder if they also made the glass, for the Radford,s ? anyone ?

Did think it looked like a bridge, but never made the connection .

They were making Shadowlite(Triplex) type glass in 1972 and I think were purchased by Triplex (Pilkington) about that time.

Tim wrote:
Jens, I've never tried it, but I reckon you could etch the Tyneside logo onto new glass yourself. Tim

Hi Tim,

thanks for the link, I will look into this, if I dont have another piece made.

problem is, the piece I had made, is thinner than the original glass, so it dont "fit" the rubber seal.
I would prefer to have a glass made, with original thickness.


Jens Christian

surfblue63 wrote:
It's the one in the back ground

PS Jens I will have a chat with the mate of mine with the Cooper that has Tyneside glass in. He has connections in the trade, so may be able to help.

Hi surf,

nice pic thanks for posting.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ronnie wrote: They were making Shadowlite(Triplex) type glass in 1972 and I think were purchased by Triplex (Pilkington) about that time.

Hi Ronnie,


think my screen are Triplex ? will check next time, I am in the garage.

car still in paint shop, so I did some painting of the subframe.

Cleaning interior parts.

Here is the dash cowling

genuine turbo engine & gearbox, rebored to1293, with all parts from turbo specialist Avonbar.

Time to apply some paint -

Cool, but why THAT colour?

Are you really up at 5am doing your engine?

Frogeye61 wrote:Cool, but why THAT colour?

See this is why it was so important to track down the original head, that JanSpeed fitted = to see the colour, so I could get it right

finished

Frogeye61 wrote:Are you really up at 5am doing your engine?

When I restore a car, I dont mess around, sometimes I stay in the garage for more than 24 hours.
When I rebuilt my Grey Volvo V8, I once stayed for 36 hours, in one go.
In the time the WP was in the paintshop, I welded up my White Volvo Amazon, rebuilt the brakes,
fitted new frontwings, and MOT,ed it.
Helped 2 friends with the rust, before the MOT, on their cars.
Then it was back to subframes -interior - engine & gearbox, for the WP.