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[210bhp]

Hi Jamie

I'm in a fix. I wondered if you can help. I see you have bought two nice seats for your project and I need a standard 68 seat urgently. Would you be interested in selling your original seat(s) from the 912?
Pm me if you are able to help. Thanks

Regards
Mike

[johnM]

Worked on the clock between the hours of 1 and 2 last night. I love how quiet the world is during the small hours.

Cleaned-up the mechanism with electrical contact spray. Went from totally inop, to working, to stopping, to working, to stopping. Need to buy some super light oil and investigate how to lubricate a clock mechanism. Who'd have thought?

Don't put any oil on the wheels, just a very small amount of sewing machine oil on the bearing ends of the shafts.

Kind regards.

[jamie]

Hi Jamie

I'm in a fix. I wondered if you can help. I see you have bought two nice seats for your project and I need a standard 68 seat urgently. Would you be interested in selling your original seat(s) from the 912?
Pm me if you are able to help. Thanks

Regards
Mike

Hi Mike. Very sorry, but I sold my one seat a few months back to clear some space in the office

[jamie]

Worked on the clock between the hours of 1 and 2 last night. I love how quiet the world is during the small hours.

Cleaned-up the mechanism with electrical contact spray. Went from totally inop, to working, to stopping, to working, to stopping. Need to buy some super light oil and investigate how to lubricate a clock mechanism. Who'd have thought?

Don't put any oil on the wheels, just a very small amount of sewing machine oil on the bearing ends of the shafts.

Kind regards.

Hi John,

This is exactly what I've done - been very delicate with the application. Unfortunately, it still doesn't run for more than a few seconds...

[jamie]

Had my 16 year old brother over to stay for the past two days. I don't own a Playstation, so the entertainment options were work on the house, or work on the car.

So yesterday we put up some aluminium box guttering on my new garage, then went over to 83 Engineering to use the sandblaster. In the evening, Jels-of-83 came over and helped brace the door frames so I could cut-away the inner sills. He used my new GYS welder and deemed it pretty decent. I had my first go on it, too and I like it. It's a nice welder!



I'm narrowing-down my paint choices.



Loving the way the light catches the line of the car with matte paint. This is a paint called MetalMask, from POR-15. I have a tin of it because I've always wanted to paint a car in it. As it turned-out, it isn't right, but I don't think it's far off what I want. Either something along these lines, or Bahama Yellow.



My brother, Jels and I all watched the paint dry. At midnight we called it a day.

This morning I hacked the passenger-side inner sill away to reveal the heater tube. The wall of the tube was so thin that it crushed in my hands like tinfoil. Totally knackered. So, not knowing if I can get another, but not seeing an any alternative to removing it anyway, I cut it out.



Then I went at the driver-side sill. As expected, less rotten than the other, but still a bit of a mess. I try to remember this is a 50-year-old car, and it's generally pretty decent, and the bad bits aren't too bad (right?).



The kidney bowl looked OK, but I still managed to bang a half-inch diameter hole in it with a screwdriver.

Peeling back the inner sill revealed solid metal throughout, and a rock-sold heater tube! Fantastic. I'll shoot this full of spray wax and weld it back up.



By this time it was 1.30PM. The car was about ready to go to the blasters, so a quick call to the local van hire company produced this totally legit transport method. This is my brother explaining that everything here is totally 100% legit, officer.



I couldn't find the switch for the Did Light

Give me a Transit any day of the week - this LDV was a noisy piece of crap. After two deafening hours we arrived at Enviro Strip in Tamworth and unloaded the 912 into a warehouse containing some other rusty Porsches. Nice guys - the owner Vaughan even helped unload the car. It took four people - I'm still not sure how my brother and I lifted it up from my garage onto the bed. Maybe my back will tell me tomorrow.

The pile of car-shaped bits to the left of mine is something that might one day be a 356, and the one behind is an SC. Both needed a magician to put them right.



Another two hours and we were home, hearing ruined for life. I filled my bin with the big heap of rust that the 912 had left behind on the garage floor.

[Darren65]

Give me a Transit any day of the week - this LDV was a noisy piece of crap.

Preaching to the converted!

Great progress…keep it coming.

Cheers,

[Nick Moss]

I'll shoot this full of spray wax and weld it back up.

The heater silencer gets very hot, so be wary where you put all that wax.

[jamie]

Good point - thanks Nick.

[murph2309]

Jamie - we blasted the inside of mine with POR 15 and closed it back up again - might be better than the wax?

[Northy]

I've found POR15 isn't great on clean metal. Fine on rust. In my (somewhat limited) experience epoxy mastic from rust.co.uk is much better.

Good progress Jamie. Great job.

[sladey]

I love that epoxy mastic stuff - and it comes in buff! There's a mucky joke in there somewhere.

[jamie]

Thanks guys. Will investigate.

In the mean time, does anyone know where I can (if I can?) find a SWB heater tube?

[sladey]

Will the later ones not fit? Very well insulated concertina tube that won't rust - the fittings look pretty much the same as on mine

[jamie]

SWBs have a heater vent in the sill. I could install later tubes, but it'd be nice to retain the functionality of the original vents.

[Bez1]

Nice stuff Jamie. Interesting to compare notes with my 912.

German way of doing thngs over here seems to be sandblasting. anti rust paint and then Wax coating. My father in law swears by it. Apparently on a hot day the wax will "creep" into every corner. If it is waxed it won't rust seems to be a mantra.

Would not want to use it on the heater system however, perhaps a good blast, replacement where neccesary and a good coat of POR 15? Please be aware that POR 15 will only adhere to blasted metal or metal treated with the POR Metal Ready surface prep. With my 12 I am planning a straight sand blast and POR15 route. Will post some pics in due course. I have also been using the VW weld prep/anti corrosion spray paint on all of the spot welded joints.