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        Has been a while since I have shown anything. I have been doing stuff, but nothing I thought needed to be seen here.
        I am not sure if this is the appropriate place for this!
        A month or so ago I spent a week with my good friend's Rita and Tony. Tony was in the middle of building a little push car for his grandson Spencer T. Tony wanted to get it into a usable stage for an up and coming hot 1/3rd quickchange rod event. So during that week Tony and I got the lil push car to the stage where Spencer T would be able to be pushed around in it.
        Over the course of the week Tony and I had many discussions about this lil push car. In one of those discussions I said to Tony that the lil push car needed something neat for a rear end. Tony had built a cool dropped front axle for the front. So I said to Tony I think it needs a quickchange out the back. Well that was a job I gave myself. Whilst there I took the necessary dimensions and made a crude sketch of the general arrangment of the rear of this lil push car.
        So armed with this information, over the last month or so I have been working away on the rear end. Still a long way to go, but I am extremely happy with the results so far.
        I won't go into a long winded description of what I have done, I will just load a bunch of images for your viewing pleasure (?).










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    1. whodaky
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      In the interests of not overloading that last post with images, I will continue here.
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      Moving right along!
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      Here are images of where I am at right now. The housing is completed and I have just varnished ( not varnished in these images ). I still need to make the rear cover. The rear cover was originally going to be carved as a part over the housing but plans change and it is now going to be a separate attachable part.
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      Very cool Geoff but there's a problem. Your fist post is missing all the photos.

      Would you mind fixing that.

      Update... Thanks, it seems photbucket and SMC dont get along in the first post. No ideal whats up with that. They must have changed something on my. Best to use the built in free hosting so we don't loose pics. With the new system it works almost the same as Photobucket. Just click the paperclip icon in the editor and add files. Its actually very easy.
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      Yeah that first post didn't seem to want to retain the images on my first two tries. Tried something different the 3rd time, hopefully they will stay.
      Had a go at saving an image into the SMC system. Don't know that I will utilize it, but you never know
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    6. Don Garrett
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      Love the car Geoff....by all means post more pics as you have the time.

      Thought about ya the other day....was at a local car show with my club and there was a guy there trying to pull some lines on someones car...I say trying because....well I'll leave that go at that. Just glad it wasn't my car.
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      Got the 'Lil changer' housing all smoothed out. So layed on a number of coats of Maple satin varnish. Looks like it was dipped in a can of Golden syrup.
      Still have to make the rear cover. But I am very pleased with the progress so far.
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      Looks great! Now all you need to do is drop by your local foundry and give the guy $10 to put in in with some aluminum castings.
      11-06-11, 08:11 AM QUOTE QUOTE #9
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      very nice!
      11-06-11, 09:18 AM QUOTE QUOTE #10
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