This might be able to help somebody.

I made a bead former out of an old pair of vise-grips and some steel scraps.



more photos here

Graber

I appreciate attention to detail.

good thinking...!

I soldered an olive onto the pipe

Excellent tip!
Don't know how to tell you this.. but you have built your car with the steering wheel on the wrong side

funny thing that, most (dare i say) foreigners seem to get that one wrong?!

nah, its not their fault, some plonker built all the roads the wrong way in most of the foreign countries and they have to build their cars the wrong way to compensate.
nice little tool btw, i too was going to solder olives onto the pipe, but you cant do that with ally so it depends whether i go with ally or copper.




Russ.

There. Does that make you all feel more at home with my build?

Graber
Rescued attachment BalaFlip.jpg

I'd take the seats back if I was you. Looks like the writing has been stitched on backwards.

Thanks for the tip sgraber. It just so happens I have a couple of 'spare' pairs of mole grips sitting about. IGOR! pass me the hacksaw, I need to create