Recent content by Mick Rae

The "glue" on mine didn't up much fight, after all this time it had evolved into a something like dried orange icing, definitely not adhesive properties

Those hub caps really bind solid to wheels Mike, no chance they will rotate, they are pretty hard to get off and on. I sprayed the wheels black, was very pleased, then put the caps back on, completely undoing my work. Ho him, can't see it, better tight fit given what happened to you.

Found this in phone. Same colour as seats......I plan eventually to have a beige vinyl roof and side panels, but that's some way off due to parts finances being spent on rear brakes at the moment. So the hub caps are a more economic first steps to achieving '40 shades of brown'

The Fiat is a modern, 2013, but has been a cracking car. Never breaks down, only stuff had to do has been a little paint touch up and consumables such as brakes, along with yearly service. Has been a real surprise for us. I'll put a sideways picture up when I'm home at weekend or next week

Hi, I just used masking tape and 'rounded the angles' as best could with my thumbnail, accepting over spray, and then cleaning over spray off with very fine wire wool. There's probably a better way, but this worked well enough.

Yep, mine had turned into what looked like unpleasant fruit pastilles, also replaced as above.

I checked in garage. The adhesive I used was locktite 660, meant for bearings I believe. Very strong stuff, but only solidifies in absence of oxygen, so excess can be wiped off next day, leaves a bond where splines used to be. Worked well in this case.

I glued mine with anaerobic cure locktite. That's over a year ago, still fine.

Looks really nice with the red piping, and a good job done. You'll be seeing the 'bubbles' because you have been staring at them, give it a few weeks, and the covers will have settled and you'll have forgotten them. The covers seem nice quality as you say.

Red piping looks good from here, seems like a good deal all round, will be smart in red car. You will know this already, but just in case, if the covers are nice and tight to get over the foam, and this causes the foam to move a bit, I usually wrap the foam in cling film first, that lets the...

Cheers for the answers, and for the link. Off to look at now . And to answer your question, I'm in Scotland. So summers are rarely above 20C, and often below with rain :). I'd only benefit from the heat!

I'm at the speculation stage of a project, to install vinyl on the roof of my Rover 2200. I'd probably get a professional to do this, as whilst I could do myself, if I saw a flaw I'd see it every time. I did a Ford many years ago, and whilst presentable, I was never totally happy with my work...

Fingers crossed! Hope it keeps time and working!

I'm thinking that most clocks are overdue servicing may be the issue with mine. Runs slow, very slow. I've been playing with old clocks and pocket watches for a longish time (less so, well, not at all now die to eyesight, patience and ironically, lack of spare time). The original oil they...

Done, and only cut myself once (the plastic of them centre console has sharp edges!). 20 quid mp3 player with 128 GB sd card in to hold whole library of music in car, nothing seen. I took a short video with sound but I'm not able to upload video files unfortunately. So, I'll have to...