Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Actually thought I had posted these pics up too.


Firstly as it stands...... tall.

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And second as I would love to see it, and how @joem83 wanted to see it.

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We know a load of stuff will need to be moved about to get this thing to run that low.

But if nothing else, we will give it a bloody good go.

PS: still like the wheels.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Busy with a planning meeting today, doorbell goes.

Get to open it and DHL guy waves from his van, and points.

Parcel !!

Contents.

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Could not wait for the meeting to be over.

So thought I would just try it on a wheel.

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OK..... that worked, easy.

Down to the garage and pull out the big jack, roll the Rockit back, chock the front wheel.

Up in the air, off with the 16” alloy to just try the adapter on the 4x108 studs.

Yup. Fits. 20mm added

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Spacers that came with the wheels are another 5mm. So total 25mm

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So of course I needed to see if the new wheel fitted on the adapter.

Keep in mind, the tyres on them are 175/15’s that are silly stretched.

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Yes, it does.

I liked it.


QUESTION: How wide can I go on tyres on there rims, they are 8J or 8” wide.


More in a bit, need to deal with something.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

As is often the case.....

Once I got started, I needed to carry on.

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Looking down the length of the car, the steels hit the edge so perfectly, it just put a massive grin on my face.

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Looking down on it.

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Following this, it was front wheel off too.

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And lastly.

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I think the front can do with a 30mm push outward vs the rear that was right with a 25mm spacing.

Wider tyres will complete the look a bit more, along with a hard slam

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Rian, I have a 8 inch wide rear wheel on my S10 and it has a 275/60-15 tire on it . This gives me around 10 inches of rubber on the ground per wheel.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Thats brilliant.

I think it will be overkill here so need to look at the right balance.



Mickey had asked me if I would paint the outer edge, facing his property green, kind of to blend with the hedge a bit, and the green roof sheets I had ordered.

So today in my “Lunch Hour” I quickly mixed some green and black enamel paints to get a darker colour.

Maybe a tad dark, but I don't care as I won’t be seeing it.

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Resulting in this.

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Once the gutters are fitted, they are some dark colour, it should be OK for him.

Still waiting for the roof sheets to be delivered.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Feels like a PS

Fil sent this through late afternoon.

Green needs to be darker I think.

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And more detail added.

Got a message from roofing company, expected delivery date for sheets and fixings, 18 November, thats a long wait then.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Photoshopped by mate Fil who fetched it in Scotland for me.

If we can get it this low, and a slightly shorter, tilted back screen, I will be super chuffed.

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Just need some drum working space now.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Good news.

PASS

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Also, back to some pretty random randomness.

I do not get Zombies and related issues.

But a colleague has his birthday, loves zombies, we have to bake a competitive cookie as a work challenge.

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Baked and finished

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Just hope they get my attempt.

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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Friday we had the clinical trial quiz, followed by the zombie bake off......

Challenged to do a bit of fancy dress.....

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This morning one of the new farmers tractors came out to play.

They are large and do take up a lot of space.

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Anyway.....

I had a few small jobs left to do on the carport structure.

Started out with adding some support to the one side where a shorter 2.7 meter length of roofing needs to be added.

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So created a welded up support to be added to the end of the main beam.

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Thought that working alone, a support would make my life easier

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Next thing Mickey is there, he heard me with the big grinder, cutting steel.

So I welded up the end plate and support.

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Straight up like a scalded cat......

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So completed.

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And painted.

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Happy with that.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Nice work!

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Thanks Bill,

Living with it, means I need to do it right.


So today I needed to fix a small (Massive) cock-up that @CraigRK commented on yesterday.

If you did not know, you would not know.

So the roof actually goes another 500mm ahead of where it ended before.

Plan was to add the 500mm onto the new section made up yesterday.

So today it was fix up time.

Started by preparing some wood for the front face and supports.

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Got the. Supports on, a wall plate against the garage wall too.

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Trimmed the bottoms up.

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Front facade added

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Ready for roof sheets now.

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Gutters still need to be fitted.

Weekend over, again.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Early start, foggy.

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Stolen off FB Marketplace

Just likes it, note the split front screen.

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Postman delivered a box.

Sent by PedalcarJoe.

Straight into my new display cabinet.......

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And a Rockit that will find its way onto or into the Rezin Rockit.

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I had planned to get to the Rezin Rockit as well over the weekend, but the carport kept me busier than planned.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Last few days have been very full of day job stuff.
Yesterday saw meetings start at 8.30 and last one end around 4.45 so not even a lunch break to carry on with the bits of prep I am doing.

Today, weather permitting, mix some green up to get close to but a touch darker than Sinclair green and then post the one front line and posts green

Plus do the skinny board in Red.

It should work to form a basis for the fake gas station colours and make it easier than painting once the roof is up.

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Something like this.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Oh ya that will look cool.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Thank you,

The replica cost me little to build, but a real pump at the time would be $1300.00 unrestored.


I am hoping to get some kind of gas station forecourt type look here.


SomI started early today, and donated my lunch and tea times to painting.

It did end up getting done in three phases, as the third one took some Hummming and ha-ing as to whether I would paint the front steel green.

Masking off takes time, but keeps it tidy.

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Red added.

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That was meant to be how far I go.

Typically, after work I went back and painted the front steel too.

This way, once the roof is on, when you come down there, it will present nicely.

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Happy so far.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Looks good to me. With that gas pump it'll fit right in.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Oh yeah, looking good Rian!

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Carport is coming along nicely. I like your color scheme for it.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

I think with a bit of thought, it can be good.

Thanks Bill.

Based around Sinclair,how could it not be a success?

I also grew up with a brand called Castrol which uses the same combination



So between meetings and work yesterday, I sneaked out and started to scratch another itch.

Started to paint the rear of the green beams white, and the rest of what is grey now, will become white.

If I can beat the weather today.

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In other GALAXY NEWS

I ordered some Mercedes Benz alloy wheel centre caps.......

Total cost, £6.95 delivered.

Plan is to remove the stars to de-brand the wheels before fitting them to the Galaxy.

I was originally waiting to do the MoT on standard wheels before swapping out the wheels.

Then Corona happened, giving me another 6 months MOT time.

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Remember the spider caps I bought last year?

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Compared to the Benz item, which is 70mm this 57 mm spider ended up too small.

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And from America.....



Remember Dennis’ NASCAR themed 66 Chevy C10 build.


He bought a cool transporter to go with it this week.


Excited to see how that ends up looking.


Oklahoma truck, no nasty rust to repair.


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Paintbrush and roller awaits.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

So, when you have over 800bhp on tap in a 66 C10, what do you do to maximise it....?


Lighten it of course.


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Before.

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After

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This build keeps moving forward.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

I saw some of the wheels I had found for the Rezin Rockit on sale on FB Marketplace for £350.00

So feel pretty pleased that I paid £100.00 plus collection for mine.

I need to find some kind of centre caps, or a programme to 3D print a set for my wheels.

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Looking at wheel,adapters, I found these reasonably locally, about 20 miles from home.

No idea on what they will be like, but the centre bore seems to be wrong at 55mm vs 63 on the hubs. But shows some are about if one looks.

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I am assuming one needs to still assemble them, fit studs to the adapters and then fit to the car.

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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

So yesterday morning, I started to paint all the greys , into white....

Within 15 minutes of starting, Mickey was here too, and straight up onto the shed roof.

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First coat on.

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So today started wet and windy, so I went to get some loo paper for lockdown and some food, in case I got hungry.

Back home, it was still wet.

By 2.00pm it had dried up, sun out......

So I decided to go do the second coat.........

FAAAAAAIIIILLLL...!!


It started to rain and with the wind howling an hour after I started, so I shut shop.

Really pi553d OFF.

What a mess.

Oh, and of course I do dislike water based paints.


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Hopefully get it done before Wednesday, and have it dry before the roof sheets arrive.

Chicken Fajitas for dinner, Sallys treat.

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Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

This morning I was out by 7.45 to go start and finish the paint before my day job started.


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Finished.

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I can honestly say, I am pleased that I did not stay with the industrial grey as planned.

The white, green and red are a good, crisp combination, and once I have lights in under the roof sheets, it should work well.

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Weather and delivery permitting, I plan on taking Thursday and Friday off to get this done.


In the mean time, I need to start looking at lighting options.

I will go with new materials for this one, rather than old recycled school lights or similar.

Sounds like people are getting good results with LED lights too.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

This is the carport I am about to roof.

It is 6x6 meters.

BUT.....

Let’s work on 5x5 meters, so 25 square meters to be lit up from about 2.2 plus meters up.

The floor is paved with block paving, mostly a mottled grey colour.

So, what is the concensus on what light design and size, output etc to go for?


I do not think I will light up between the front red strip and the first green, but possibly the first green and second beam which is the steel. Then more toward the rear.

Thanks for the input.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

How much light do you want? A normal office environment is about 40-50 Lux. For more detail work, you want a light level closer to 70 Lux...

LED lighting is the way to go and you options are nearly endless...

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Hi Mate,

I want too much light, that should be just an out enough.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

So today started with this view.

7 contrails, one out of shot.

I would love this to be an indication of things being headed in the right direction, allowing us to do what we used to do.

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At 2,00pm as one meeting came to an end, the doorbell rang.

Roof sheets and materials had landed.

Interesting experience, the driver refused to help me carry the 5.5 meter sheets onto the drive, as he was not insured, and would have to sue me if he got injured.

First time I have ever had such a ****ty experience.

As he said, he is paid to do sidewalk delivery....... not impressed.

But in the end I asked nicely after explaining there was nobody to help me move them onto the driveway, he drudgingly helped me carry them off the sidewalk.

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Later on, Mickey got home from town and helped me carry them down to the garage.

One of the nice things is that the underside, being grey, is not too dark, should work well for winter work.

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I after 5 weeks wait, we have sheets.

I have taken tomorrow and Friday off to get the sheets up.

So tonight it was oven grilled lamb ribs and vegetables

And just because I am off tomorrow

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Roll on Thursday.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

By way of partial apology I will post up a PM received from Rasputin on another forum.

He explained in a clear, non emotive way, what they are up against.

I was aware when the driver refused to help me get the sheets off the sidewalk that he probably had rules to follow.
BUT
His attitude was filled with anger and possibly even petulance.
HOWEVER
My day job is in part working with really awkward, some rude and difficult customers and as much as some of you can fine tune a turbo, prune a Bonzai or bake a cake, my forté is managing conflicts.


Anyway, posted purely in case any of us can learn from the info below and understand our delivery driver, team etc.


Hope you won't mind a PM Grizz; no need to reply if you wish.

I deliver pallets of goods to high street stores, often through the front door early in the mornings.

Our strict instructions are to tail-lift them out of the truck onto the ground next to the tail lift, and the store staff are to take over from there, dragging pallets across uneven pavements.

But it rarely works out like that. Some of the pallets weigh roughly a ton and need a helping shove, especially up slopes and over bumps. On the other hand, at some stores it works out best for me to stay in the truck and just lower the pallets down - the store staff are waiting to take them by the time I get that far and have an easy trundle into the store, and if I were to take them off the tail-lift the delivery would take a lot longer.

So it all depends. I try to help out where I can, but it's really a case of finding the most efficient handover in each situation. I do hear a lot of stories of drivers who have got too used to standing about on the back of the truck though!

Your driver couldn't sue you of course - you only asked him, didn't order him. He would have to sue his employer for putting him in that situation, but that might mean no more job; his employer might try suing you but if you only asked for help and the driver agreed, it wouldn't be clear-cut.

Since your roof sheets are so long, the supplier would have to send a driver's mate or a truck with a hiab crane if they offered an unloading service officially, but I bet they tell their drivers not to touch the panels at all, and let the clients arrange unloading. Cost-cutting.

If there's nothing to that effect in the small print of your order, or nothing about an optional extra fee for an unloading service, then the supplier may be just fudging it and you may have scope for redress. What if you got injured because the driver would not help if he didn't? Who would be liable? Their small print might be an interesting read.

I suspect the supplier relies on the same tactic as my employer - the stores have to take the pallets in however it can be done because they need the goods. They could refuse to accept them given good grounds, but they can't ever afford to.

I could tell you a few stories - such as a store staff member whose official role was to replenish front-of-store display shelves, who broke her leg by falling backwards whilst dragging a pallet over a pothole - but I will stop there.

In your case, you clearly want the sheets and probably (as far as the supplier knows) have a team in place waiting to install them; therefore you are very unlikely to refuse to accept them just because you have to unload them. Chances are (the supplier is gambling) that your roofers will help out.

Likewise their driver is put in the same situation - you made it clear that the sheets couldn't be unloaded without his help, so in effect you were calling his bluff and suggesting that you would refuse them. So it was in his interests to help unload, even arguably at his own risk, rather than take them back. In my case, taking stuff back would involve (and has on occasion) unpalatable hour-long argumentative phone calls to the depot and/or other senior managers, designed to get me to make the delivery no matter what, and to get the store to accept it no matter what.

The only time I did take a whole delivery back was when it was loaded on a 16ft high trailer but the shopping centre had a 14'6" height limit!


PS. I did reply to Him

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Roof sheets are up, held down with 4 screws each, loads more pilot holes to drill, as the supposed self tappers, are certainly not self tapping.

Pretty obvious that they are a low quality product masquerading as something they are not.

So this has necessitated a pilot hole for every one of the 200 holes that may end up being drilled and screwed down, as I really do not ever want the wind tearing the sheets out and depositing them into Mickeys yard.

Rain stopped play an hour ago, so right now I had lunch, and am waiting for my garage clothes to dry in the tumble drier.

Still raining intermittently at the moment, and wet = slippery.

Then back out to continue with the screwings and doings.

Pics later when it gets too dark to play,.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

I had to do the same thing when we was doing the wiring on my shop. pilot drill for all the self tapping screws. They just don't seem to tap much in the hard steel beams. Looking forward to seeing it with the roof on.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

My self tappers go into wood, once through the 0.7mm sheeting.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Oh yeah, I forgot yours were wood. I have never tried them in wood before. Thought they were for metal use only, Didn't think they gripped as well as wood screws in wood.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

I think there are different types of screws, some self drill, and some self tap.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

So the roofing.

After many weeks of waiting, arrived, and then today the weather was challenging, but we just carried on.

Mickey was around to help as soon as I let him know.

So the first 5.5 meter sheet was a bit of fun, getting our rhythm

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Then it went a lot easier and faster.

Unfortunately the self tapping screws (report on them in a bit) do not like to self tap through the 0.7mm sheet steel of the roofing sheets.

But we carried on.

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With the wind, and the length of these sheets, getting them upright, and then onto the roof was to say the least, interesting.

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Progress

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Mickey, as he weighs as much as a packet of matches, was bouncing around on top.

Last sheet I used was a 3.0 meter sheet in stead of the 2.7 meter ordered. As they sent two cover sheets to protect the actual order.

But it needed cutting back a bit in order to avoid damaging the roofing felt on the woodwork shed.

Grinder on.

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And then, suddenly the heavens opened, soaking us both to the skin up the ladders.

You can see how it cut under the front of the roof, wind driving it in from the Essex side, not our usual wind nd rain direction.

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Once we stopped, and waited for the rain to finish, I took a look from Mickey side.

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And absolutely pleased with the outcome so far.

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Well deserved rest, with a mug of tea and a smoke.

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Called it a day for the top of the roof, more screwings and doings tomorrow when I have about 150 pilot holes to drill and screws to fit.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

You now have a real nice place to work on projects out of the rain.

The colors are great.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Thanks Vince,

I am very happy so far.



So a quick post before I head out to Tool Station for supplies.

The screws supplied with the order were these.

Maybe my expectations were too high, maybe they are the wrong ones, just ask the minister of health to explain.

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Screws, seem to have a cutting groove.

The seal on the washer really distorts well when it hits the sheeting, so using them in the valleys, along with a plastic sealing cap, should be a great system.

Getting them in, that’s the challenge.

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Trying to drive then straight through the sheeting results in a blunting off, like they were made of putty, almost instantly.

So maybe I got it wrong.

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Mate Andy, in Tulsa, Oklahoma uses these for his sheeting work on his pole barns steel structure.

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And also uses the same style screws that I have.

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So maybe the screws I have are for timber structures, which mine is, but they really need to be done with a pilot hole, unless someone has other advice.

Off to work I go.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Rian, I am in charge of putting up a lot of metal buildings. Your original screws look to be the right type for putting metal sheets onto a wood structure.

I your last picture above, the left screw with the odd threads is for wood framing, the one on the right is typical of metal sheet onto metal framing.

Even most of the crews that I have worked with will pre drill the sheets with a small hole, 1/8" diameter (3mm), in the sheets before installing them with the screws. Saves effort and keeps from blunting the screw tips. Looks like your original screws where a poor quality to blunt that quickly.

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

I would try something like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Hykolity-Link...81&sr=8-7&th=1

Start with 4, two on each side of the carport. You can always add more of these. Space them evenly as possible for that side of the carport cover, like you had explained in your post about lights...

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

Agreed Karl,

I used the first screws, wood type, the second pics were of Andy in Oklahoma

All the screws are now done, capped and happy with the outcome

Re: Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!
 

So with the roof on, despite not being securely screwed down, one of my other small needs was to address this hole.

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So I went to see Stuart, Mickeys neighbour whose I knew had a pile of conservatory roofing laying out behind his place for the last three years.

Offered to buy, trade, swap him a sheet.....

Nope he said, take one, I will probably never use them.

So I dug one out of the overgrown pile.

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Carried it home, broom, hosepipe and 7 minutes later.

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Mickey to the rescue.

Channel

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So it looks like the 2400mm by 780mm sized hole will get closed in too, keeping more weather out.


This morning I saw the car frosted over completely

It was chilly, later the day settled around 7’C which is mamangeable

Usually @PaulY does not show up before it drops below 6’C

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After breakfast and a lazy start I ran down to Tool station and got two tubes of silcon based mastic for the wall seal.

As well as a roll of self adhesive flashing.

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Back home by lunchtime to get back onto the roof.