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Bonnet making 101
macspeedy - 23/6/09 at 07:56 AM

Mango and i got started on making my bonnet lastnight ! wooohoo mot on saturday!!

macspeedy - 23/6/09 at 07:57 AM

tried lamp posts and concrete pillars but these plastic reflector poles are the biz

iank - 23/6/09 at 07:58 AM

I take it the convenient bollard was the reason you were working in the road

Bah 3 sec too late

[Edited on 23/6/09 by iank]

macspeedy - 23/6/09 at 07:58 AM

PUSH !!

omega0684 - 23/6/09 at 07:59 AM

is there a reason why your doing this in the middle of the steet and not in your garage? i wonder what passers by were thinking?

macspeedy - 23/6/09 at 08:01 AM

no one saw us ! was late last night believe it or not, think everyone was watching corry or some other rubbish on telly..

Mr Whippy - 23/6/09 at 08:30 AM

nice work, I'd have loved to see the faces of the police if they came round the corner

Steve Hignett - 23/6/09 at 08:43 AM

I did my first one round a tall gas bottle!

Humbug - 23/6/09 at 09:09 AM

Wow - a buck and everything! My ali bonnet was done by making a pattern out of old floor vinyl, cutting the ali to size and bending it round a lamp-post

[Edited on 23.06.2009 by Humbug]

Humbug - 23/6/09 at 09:11 AM

quote:
Originally posted by macspeedy
Mango and i got started on making my bonnet lastnight ! wooohoo mot on saturday!!


You must be in the wrong road... I see that salt bin says "CEC" and you've got a BEC

Slater - 23/6/09 at 09:35 AM

Brilliant, how long did you have to drive about till you found the right bollards?


If the locals had spotted you, I can imagine the call to the police.......

Local "Help, There are 3 strange men in our street bending some metal around a bollard, one is even taking photos of the other two, please come and arrest them."

Policeman "???????"



I like the protective footwear too.

[Edited on 23/6/09 by Slater]

[Edited on 23/6/09 by Slater]

RoadkillUK - 23/6/09 at 09:48 AM

LOL, we did ours on the street as well, we used a lampost (a steel one not the octaganal concrete ones)

James - 23/6/09 at 12:33 PM

Did mine round a long piece of 4" soil pipe I clamped between the workmate and a stool!

MakeEverything - 23/6/09 at 03:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by RoadkillUK
LOL, we did ours on the street as well, we used a lampost (a steel one not the octaganal concrete ones)



Although that would make an interesting shaped bonnet.

iank - 23/6/09 at 04:39 PM

Just noticed they have those exact bollards in my kids school. Now that would be an interest conversation maker

rusty nuts - 23/6/09 at 08:15 PM

quote:
Originally posted by James
Did mine round a long piece of 4" soil pipe I clamped between the workmate and a stool!



Did the "stool" come out of the soil pipe?

MikeRJ - 23/6/09 at 10:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by rusty nuts
quote:
Originally posted by James
Did mine round a long piece of 4" soil pipe I clamped between the workmate and a stool!



Did the "stool" come out of the soil pipe?


Hehe, I though exactly the same when I read that.

Great Warped minds think alike

RK - 24/6/09 at 12:54 AM

Nice job!!

mangogrooveworkshop - 7/2/10 at 10:16 PM

Oh how that post link has cheered me up