hey everyone just found this website and i thought i would sign up and say hi, i have just started building the haynes roadster nearly finished the
space frame things are going ok ish but the book does leave you thinking sometimes, anyway hello hope everyone is good and im sure ill be picking
peoples brains in the near future
steve
hi and welcome
Is this your first scratch build or have you been there before?
Cheers
Alex
PS
Oh, and welcome 
Hi and welcome too a wealth of information, oh and a bunch of pancakes..................
Welcome.
hi cheers for the welcomes, yeah its my first scratch build but i did spend 8 years in structual steel and a fully skilled welder fabricator so im not having a large amount of problems, only problems so far have been mis information really in the book
cheers chris also while on the subject do u know what thickness tubing is used for them as it only gives an external measurement no internal from what i can see
It's made a little easier because you can't get different thicknesses of seamless tube - from memory the 25mm is 2.0mm thick and the 19mm is
1.6mm.
hope this helps
Cheers
Chris
i went to my old company and they gave me a vast array off different thickness for the 19 and they gave me 2 sizes for the 25 which i cant remember off the top of my head
Nice one.
Our supplier doesn't stock anything else, but 19mm/1.6 and 25mm/2.0. so they're what we used.
Anything with this or a thicker wall should be fine.
Cheers
Chris
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are u the chris that built the roadster then?
Yes mate, wrote the book, built the car, got the T shirt!
(Actually I haven't got a tee shirt yet!)
cheers
Chris
top book mate it was that revised book that convinced me to build one, few bits that have knocked me for six but otherwise fantastic, as your here tho can i use the cortina uprights i have got on the roadster
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Originally posted by steve4179
only problems so far have been mis information really in the book
its only simple little things in the cutting list few bits that are marked one of when there is more and few bits that are in there as drawn instead
of opposite hand nothing major oh i have pics but dunno how to post em so i guess not lol
[Edited on 18/4/07 by steve4179]
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Originally posted by steve4179
top book mate it was that revised book that convinced me to build one, few bits that have knocked me for six but otherwise fantastic, as your here tho can i use the cortina uprights i have got on the roadster
ive marked everything ive found mate like i said its only things like opposite and as drawn bits few differences in length and one offs when there should have been more give me an email or something and ill right down everything i have found. my frame is nearly finished so cant see me finding many more
Click the email button mate!
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Cheers
Chris
chassis build is now finished and ive emailed you chris hope it helps
It does - thanks mate!
Cheers
Chris
did any of it help out chris?
Yes mate it did, I'd already picked up most of the stuff, but I'm onto the thing about the numbers of each tube required, we thought that it
was apparent how many of each tube there should be but for good practice the amounts should be with the drawings and I'm going to correct it.
cheers
Chris
cool happy it helped and just remeber its steve lee from dorset to put in the thanks list lol
finshed my chassis yesterday just needs welding, so im sure ill be picking ur brains in the near future about next parts of the build
Looking foward to it mate!
Cheers
Chris