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Offline patbrooks

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Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« on: 09, January, 2014 - 13:20:26 »
Sat 4th Jan
Time for half pints strip down, clean and rebuild. Getting ready for the show season - Below are the before pictures.








Sun 5th Jan
Half Pint starting to scrub up nicely, still a few parts to clean, hopefully will have it rebuilt and up and running by the end of next week, lots of pieces.





More photos to follow but it is looking good so far !!!
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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #1 on: 09, January, 2014 - 18:51:47 »
Looking good so far - keep the photos coming - must admit to 'borrowing' parts from half pint to keep people running at events :-):-)

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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #2 on: 09, January, 2014 - 21:38:04 »
Hi there it looks like you have spent some time cleaning the parts they look great ...Chas

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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #3 on: 12, January, 2014 - 20:01:08 »
Thanks Marty and Chas, we have put a few man hours cleaning every nut, bolt and wire. Just a few more finishing bits to sort out tomorrow and Half pint will be completed. We will put some more pictures up tomorrow. :)

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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #4 on: 16, January, 2014 - 21:08:56 »
Well here are the finished pictures of the reassembled Half Pint, very pleased with the results, hope you all like it. Looking forward to taking it to the shows this year.




























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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #5 on: 16, January, 2014 - 21:56:09 »
Looks totally stunning.  Would love to see it.

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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #6 on: 17, January, 2014 - 08:50:00 »
Well done it looks brand new .....it shows it was worth doing by the end result .....

Bye Chas

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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #7 on: 17, January, 2014 - 17:06:49 »
Stunning stanadard you have achieved, BUT why have you only done half a job? LOL

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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #8 on: 17, January, 2014 - 18:08:00 »
lol Very good Ray :D and thank you all for your comments. I think this was harder than a rebuild of one with a full body lol.

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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #9 on: 25, May, 2014 - 08:17:02 »
Hello, it's been a long time since I have posted,  I am really impressed with the new look half pint. Looks great.

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Re: Half Pint - Strip Down, Clean, Rebuild - Progress
« Reply #10 on: 25, May, 2014 - 12:47:37 »
well done it looks good...................

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