restoration

Motorcycle restoration process: Today, Wednesday, I started the painting phase of the plastic parts. Despite being a newbie at this, I'm...

On Wednesday, August 28th, The Greens' team joined forces with Bright Light Projects and ASDEPCO to clear over 1,000 plastic bottles clo...

Chris Rawls, a footwear enthusiast with a popular channel on YouTube, offers viewers a detailed tutorial on how to properly clean their N...

Hello HIVE, I hope you are all doing very well with some creative project. Hola HIVE espero que todos se encuentren muy bien realiz...

The forgiveness is one of the most effective tools which are used in order to rebuild relationships in the case when they were harmed. Fo...

Thank God It´s #NinetiesFriday! Last week I told you what a terrible basketcase I was back in the ´90s: 𝑻𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 90𝒔 - Ter...

I spent five days on the 65 square mile Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Southern California with seven other volunteers to restore a ...

It's been quite a few days since I posted my last Actifit report, and I must admit that it feels good to start posting again. I took thi...

My hair brained scheme to route whatever water leaks behind the windscreen rubber out may work, or not, time will tell. I am definitely n...

After much back and forth, test fitting and finally some paint, the bottom has a decent coat on, I managed to get something welded in pla...

I had some small details to finish before welding in the patch under the windscreen cowl. There was a tiny hole to patch and I marked the...

As is probably expected the part I cut out warped a bit and does not fit back in position perfectly. I picked up some of these, they are ...

With the rough shape I started refining it until finally I could get the piece I cut out to fit over it. It took quite a bit of back and ...

I pondered a long on time on how to get started with this piece. Eventually I just took the bits I had cut out and used them as a guide a...

Not an lot of change visually but I did spent quite some time welding in thin strips to replace the rusted edges that I had cut off / bac...

Cutting out rust from the inner layer meant I could now see through and into the cab... I chased down the last bit of rust into the engin...

I tried cutting away the least amount of metal, so that replacing it would be somewhat simple, unfortunately I found more rust after I cu...

It took a while but I finally managed to gather up the courage to cut a large hole in what, on the surface, looks to be good steel. It's ...

It was quite obvious that there was rust on the edge of the windshield, so I cut out a small section to see what I might have to deal wit...

The more I scratch the more rust I find, there is nothing to do but to cut it out. This time it is right at the top of the drivers side d...

Using the template made from masking tape before, I cut out a piece of metal plat and tried to figure out how to get it to fit the shape,...

Moving further up the door pillar I started by cutting out rust from the joint where the door seal goes onto. This took some grinding and...

Even though I did not get much. done, the curve piece I welded in is the last part to go on to the outer sill before I try and coat the i...

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The last bit of work to get the front of the sill ready, welding in a piece to replace the rusted out part. Then I extended the lip with ...

It's funny how long it takes to do simple things when you are trying to squeeze it in after work and between load shedding. Finally thoug...

I learnt from my mistake on the drivers side so I hung the door and the fender before welding stuff together, to ensure the fender would ...

Not quite a copy paste of the drivers side, there is less rust to cut out on the passenger side, I tried to limit the cutting to parts wh...

Some more rust cut out and replaced with new metal. The lip on the sill where the door rubber goes was pretty rusted, so I cut the inner ...

Though it looked ready to weld on, there were a number of things to be done before I can weld the closing piece in permanently. The secti...