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Tools
Completely underestimated at the beginning of the project, I constituted it with the likings of promotions, clearences and other reductions. Thus, I could acquire very good tools, for a reasonable budget. Infortunately, I also bought some tools, really not expensive (Tubular hexagon box spanner tube, right angle driver...), choice not judicious at all. There is no doubt, to make good job, in a fast and effective way, good tools are indispensable. An example: for a simple key of 19, I thought that the only difference between a key "not expensive" and a "key of guaranteed mark with life" (not to give a name), was just at the level of solidity. Coarse error which was expensive to me. A very bad tool will round the nut, whereas a good tool will have one maintains nut much more studied. As the result: many wasted time and the attacks of nerves to unscrew nuts which not only were seized up, but in more rounded! .->références


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Sacrificed: chisels, ends, sharpened well, useful for the inaccessible weldings. It is the ultimate tool, the final solution, when intelligence and patience are not any more help...


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My second grinding machine, a good model, which cost me 5 times more expensive than the first, but which already lasted 6 times longer, with 2 times less vibrations, a wire 3 times longer, 6 times prettier. "Of the times", is not necessary to hesitate... (a joke very difficult to translate...)
The first grinding machine died (bearing of the worn axis) after ten discs to be cut out were used. The other discs on the photograph are also of a great utility: disc to be ground, and disc with plates. Those are very effective to expose sheet. For sandpapering, I used the wire brushes gone up also much on a drilling machine. I have six or seven of them, of sizes and different forms, on a drilling machine bought especially for this kind of work which uses the bearing of chuck, a "disposable" drilling machine, at eight euros.


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Comfort: tools compressed-air. Bought for work of painting, it is a model of 3 CV, 100 liters. Do not ask me if one can sand with, I did not test yet. Next purchase for a forthcoming restoration: an impact wrench.


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The small MIG one Sold in a configuration "wire lined without gas", it me A was necessary to find a gas bottle (standard alcal, or mizon). Not question of renting one of them, it is too much expensive (150 euros for three years). Is this to limit of them the access to the only professionals who will have a profitable and regular use of it? Not really democratic like process: the amateurs not very fortunate do not have an other choice only to use lined wire, which, one has the right to wonder it, is only used to make sell MIG stations without bottle.


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Tons of products in all kinds, what to pollute planet during ten thousand years: Depal 9 and 10, Rustol, releasing, acetone, white spirit, to lubricate and degrease, to protect, varnish, decorate, embellish... a true pit. But good, leaves with all to dismount, one should not hesitate over the treatment (of the hollow bodies in particular). And then it me remains about it sufficiently for another project...


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Super thinner bought in a wholesaler, more powerful and much cheaper than if I had bought it liter by liter.


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Delta 30. Gun with gravity. It me A took good moment to include/understand the adjustments, but I arrived there. It is enough to know that one has material of professional in the hands to make good job. It is the method kombikini: inspired by the method placebo, it rests on an unfolding of personality: of only one blow, one is discovered new forces, a knowledge to make come from nowhere and everywhere at the same time invades you, and you become painter. Nothing any more stops you. You are ready with all to repaint, without run-out and in a perfect flat tint. But I digress, would be this the effects of the vapor of painting which would influence my reasoning. Surely, because I did not put of mask, and that, it is not well. ESSENTIAL: the anti-vapor mask of painting to the activated carbon. Painting is super poison. Bi-component, it is the range SPRALAC which I chose. (Finish and painting). And it masks it is a 3M, usable thirty hours.


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Here, in fact the tools posed the most interrogations to me before beginning this restoration. Is a compressor of 100 liters sufficient to paint? - Yes because it makes 3 CV. Will I be able to weld sheet of 8/10eme with this Mig? - Yes, in the condition of buying in more one conical tube, of the tube-contact of 0,6mm, the wire of 0,6mm, and to have a bottle, a pressure reducer, and pressure gauges. And it is to have only some very good keys better (10,13, 15, 17, 19), that many keys of all kinds but of bad quality.




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