Dick Axtell
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| posted on 8/12/03 at 05:59 PM |
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Slow but sure(?)
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
Mind you, I can't stand up as a quick, get-it-done builder - I started 5 years ago, and only now am I near to completion!
David - Relieved to hear someone who's taking longer than me!!. Might just complete the build within 4yrs.
As for keeping up the enthusiasm, that's no problem. Just finished laminate floor at my daughter's, after helping out over minor ding to
her car. Now working on the roof of our side passage. You now how these supposedly quick jobs develop :-
"Oh look!! This rotten wood has to be replaced, and while I'm at it I'll re-glaze this part, oh, and might as well totally replace
the woodwork support frame......"
The enthusiasm to finish off these bl**dy jobs and get back on to the really important project is now really charged up.
[Edited on 8/12/03 by Dick Axtell]
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 9/12/03 at 01:01 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Well, to be honest, I've never had a full erection...
Well, that was a conversation killer, wasn't it!
DJ
A hint... I was joking...
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 9/12/03 at 01:08 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Dick Axtell
David - Relieved to hear someone who's taking longer than me!!. Might just complete the build within 4yrs.
Dick,
The biggest problem I have is time, rather than enthusiasm. I commute into London from Monday to Friday, and by the time I've had my dinner and
tidied up there's little evening left. When the weekend comes there are always domestic duties to be done, although my wife is very good in not
quibbling about the odd half-day garage time on Sat and/or Sunday.
Hence my previous comment about doing something, no matter how small - at present I'm trying to get my dashboard finished and fitted, which can
be done in small chunks of time.
cheers,
David
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timf
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| posted on 9/12/03 at 01:37 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
The biggest problem I have is time, rather than enthusiasm.
nothing to do with being a self confessed perfectionist
then david 
[Edited on 9/12/03 by timf]
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 9/12/03 at 03:38 PM |
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There is that, I suppose - trouble is, if I know something isn't as good as it could be, then it annoys me intensely until I've fixed
it!
I've been sitting on that tendency for the past few months, to keep things moving onwards. 
David
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CairB
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| posted on 9/12/03 at 08:55 PM |
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David,
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Hence my previous comment about doing something, no matter how small - at present I'm trying to get my dashboard finished and fitted, which can
be done in small chunks of time.
I used ally and vinyl for mine, how do you get the chunks to stick together
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 10/12/03 at 10:28 AM |
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Epoxy resin! (smartarse... )
My dash is made of loads of bits of marine ply, glued, screwed and generally fastened together. Plus a fair dollop of filler to smooth the joins,
etc.
...and there's the plastic sheet, vinyl and rubber foam bottom-edge padding... you get the picture!
David
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Northy
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| posted on 14/12/03 at 08:59 PM |
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Thanks guys
Hi fellas,
Thanks for all the support
I've been getting on well recently, doing a few little jobs.
Things were going really well today, I even had some help (see picture below), but was ended early by a trip to Casualty  see my latest post in the
"Anything else" section
[Edited on 14/12/03 by Northy]
 
Rescued attachment All Triplets Helping.jpg
Graham
Website under construction. Help greatfully received as I don't really know what I'm doing!
"If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"
Built 2L 8 Valve Vx Powered Avon
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