Did all the drilling,tapping of the y rails. Am i right in saying that the 12mm holes in y rails and 100x50 tube is used for fine tuning alignment of y rails once complete.

Will be painting today, using ford blue, does anyone know why it is called ford blue, I have never seen a ford car this colour.

Ford Blue
 

Hi Dave
Its looking good, keep it going, the name "tractor" was never applied to this machine, as the term was not widely used. It was instead referred to as an "automobile plow," IMG] http://www.dumelow.co.uk/Ford4000-2.jpg[/IMG]

Ja, the big holes are for fine tuning.

Look at the colour of the Ford logo.

I own a ford ST, the Ford blue i got does not come close to the blue on my ford badge.

"Lady in "RED OXIDE""

Dave,
That is also the classic colour that their older small block motors were painted I believe.

Laser parts received
 

Here is all the laser parts, some of them is a bit skew.

asking the experts to scan and see if i missed anything

i have a problem with this one, not flat, do not have any tools to fix so gonna ask them to redo

Bench vice and big shifting spanner will fix that. Mild steel is not that tough.

Vierpond hammer en 'n blok hout, saam met Kobus se bobjaan, vice en koevoet.

lol will do

one question on v rollers please check if this is right

4 for y car
4 for gantry
6 for z slide

are all these the same size?

Yes...same size.

Dont forget the 6 cam bushes if you are ordering from Rick at superior bearings.

Sorry to be a bother, the countersinking of the z car sides, must this be done from the inside(router mount side) or outside of car. Got me puzzled, on what will it catch if you dont countersink. I am going to countersink them just wanna make sure witch side.

From inside the car (that's why it is better to c/sink before welding).

Thx Gerald z car done, just had to be sure.

Think we made some progress for the 3 hours we had available. Gantry manufacturing done. Friend made me some dumy v rollers out of hardend plastic, running smoothly taking in consideration the grinding of the plastic v roller on the m12 thread. Z car mostly done. Weekend gonna tackle grinding of rails.

Thx again for great plans Gerald, everyting slots right into place.

Ohhh your images comes from Southern Hemisphere :D

Nice work.

I think I made a booboe, please check second pic above this is of gantry far side, i think i swoped the bracket for v rollers and cable management

Dave,

Looks okay to me.

It gets confusing because the gantry is built up-side-down.

I saw someone had it swopped around, but now i can not find the someone.

IF work does not call wanna paint tommorrow, hold thumbs.

In this weather...it is raining cats and dogs at the moment here in Brakpan..I also needed to paint something, but will have to wait till later.

Finally a break in the weather...went from 90 F to 72 F today....fall is in the air in this hemisphere! Yeah.

Sean,
We went down to 30F last few nights with a high of about 60F.