Back axle rebuild

[sydney.wedgehead]

It's looking great Rob! You're really building to a high standard and producing a fantastic wedge.

I like your approach on the nose panel, it's going to last well because of your work. (Which is a good thing given reports that Rimmers won't re-order until there is a waiting list of 200.)

Have you thought about using a seam sealer (like Sikaflex) along the exposed seams? (Now's probably the time if you are going to do it.)

Please keep posting - love seeing the write-up with pictures.

Regards,
Owen

[Bobbieslandy]

Thanks Funny you should mention that, i have a tube of seam sealer in the shed which will go on at some point along with another coat of paint, the weather doesn't lend itself to spraying so i guess i'll carry on with it in the spring. The last thing i want to do is trap damp air behind the seam sealer so waiting until it warms up a bit. Autumn has (or is it winter now?) got right in the way!

[saabfast]

Bear in mind that summer air is generally higher relative humidity than winter air that has been heated a little, hence summer being 'sticky'. If you are working inside the air on a dry sunny but cold day will have a very low rh once it is inside and heated.

[Bobbieslandy]

It's not heated, if it was then i'd be out there spraying the body is covered in condense and i cannot dry those bits out well enough to safely stick seam sealer over them.

[FI Spyder]

Although I have heat in my garage I don't usually turn it on as it never gets that cold here (much like English coastal weather which is partly why so many English and Dutch have settled here in the late 1800's and early 1900's). I have a dehumidifier that I use periodically when I want it drier, it is the type that works in marginal temp's (down to 42 F or so) automatically turning off the compressor to unfreeze the matrix with fan running then turning it back on when ready to continue on. Works well. I have another regular (older) one upstairs in the house to take the moisture out of the air as it's very damp here in winter time (cool air, wet most of the time as it rarely dries out between Pacific rain and Pineapple Expresses). You can get the air quite dry.

[Bobbieslandy]

The 'shed' is 70' x 12' and virtually impossible to seal (time and money) it's asking a lot of a domestic dehumidifier and It's been 5deg today too, a little chilly for applying seam sealer. sensible option is to wait til the weather warms up a bit. The annoying thing is that i have just installed a rather large air source heat pump in the summerhouse which has a very good dehumidifying function, we rarely use the summerhouse...

[sydney.wedgehead]

The annoying thing is that i have just installed a rather large air source heat pump in the summerhouse

Sounds like moving the heat pump to the shed would be worthwhile, but for the fact that it would be complete by the time you don't need it - c'est la vie... so perhaps for another year?

I am so envious that you have a shed 70' deep. Any chance of hanging a Skillion roof off one of the long sides?

Keep up the good work!

[Bobbieslandy]

moving the heatpump isn't really an option, i'd have to get it degassed, disconnect the pipework and power, fabricate some different brackets, pipe it back up and get it gassed. It's not exactly light either and it would eventually have to go back to the summerhouse meaning doing all that again.

The shed is pretty big but it would be far more useful if it was say 30' x 30', it's only temporary until i get the garage built, another job on the long list of jobs but at least the garage will purpose built and i'll have somewhere to put the four post lift which is currently in bits collecting dust.

I have to ask, what is a skillion roof? I'm intrigued!

[sydney.wedgehead]

Not sure what term the UK uses, but here we call a lean to roof a skillion, as illustrated on the right in the following pic.


Technically, a skillion only has one single flat surface, as opposed to hip and gable roofs, so both roof surfaces in the above are of skillion type.

[Tamas Petrunin]

Not sure what term the UK uses, but here we call a lean to roof a skillion,

The most common term is a Carport.

[FI Spyder]

Never heard the term skillion before. Here in the West coast a carport was an open section with the second floor built over it or just a continuation of the roof line on single story houses. Every house had one (higher end houses had garages) just as every house had a fireplace. Walls weren't needed as it seldom gets cold enough and snow is rare. I enclose my car port (two sides as house is built into a hill) to make a garage. I built a "lean to" off the balcony (blocking one door access) which can be relatively easily removed for temporary cover until I get things sorted out (one year).

[sydney.wedgehead]

The most common term is a Carport.

A carport can be either free standing or a lean to.

Skillion is a term that applies to the structure, rather than usage. Hanging a skillion roof is often the first step in building an extension, i.e., hanging a roof, then enclosing the sides.

I have an inkling that the term skillion is related to scullery.

[Bobbieslandy]

I thought scullery was something entirely different and illegal in most states.

[sydney.wedgehead]

In this part of the planet a scullery is a small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work.

We often enclose them using a skillion roof and walls.

terminology - one of the great mysteries.

[jeffremj]

In this part of the planet a scullery is a small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work.

We often enclose them using a skillion roof and walls.

terminology - one of the great mysteries.

I have heard of kitchen sculleries in the UK, and skullery maids - very "Downton Abbey".