29-10-2022, 05:04 PM
Hi!
My name is Daisy Dunford and I am 11 years old. My mum and dad and my gran and gramfer have got lots of Austin Sevens and I want to build my own, with my sisters. This is me at the Centenary picnic!
My dad's friend Sandy has given me loads and loads of tools which I keep in my shed in the garden. He made a tool box with my name on it and he also makes lots of tools for my dad. Today is the fist day we started working on it, we did the rods that my dad got me.
First of all we saw in there were any cracks in them by painting white paint on them, then metal paint and magnet. Two had tiny cracks so we drilled a teeny hole in them to stop it getting any bigger.
We wanted to check they were straight next.
We had to bend some of them to make them really straight. Next we put them in the blue lathe and made sure they were in the centre.
Then we put a cutting bar in and made sure all the nuts were tight and moved the saddle up, turned it on and put the red lever down. there was a blade thet cut tiny bits of metal out to make it bigger.
we used this cylinder to check it was big enough.
Then we cut the radius and checked it with blue.
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My name is Daisy Dunford and I am 11 years old. My mum and dad and my gran and gramfer have got lots of Austin Sevens and I want to build my own, with my sisters. This is me at the Centenary picnic!
My dad's friend Sandy has given me loads and loads of tools which I keep in my shed in the garden. He made a tool box with my name on it and he also makes lots of tools for my dad. Today is the fist day we started working on it, we did the rods that my dad got me.
First of all we saw in there were any cracks in them by painting white paint on them, then metal paint and magnet. Two had tiny cracks so we drilled a teeny hole in them to stop it getting any bigger.
We wanted to check they were straight next.
We had to bend some of them to make them really straight. Next we put them in the blue lathe and made sure they were in the centre.
Then we put a cutting bar in and made sure all the nuts were tight and moved the saddle up, turned it on and put the red lever down. there was a blade thet cut tiny bits of metal out to make it bigger.
we used this cylinder to check it was big enough.
Then we cut the radius and checked it with blue.
E7402C2A-06C0-4511-BB63-161C89B1B880_1_105_c.jpeg (Size: 176.71 KB / Downloads: 2,929)