villiers 1944 petrol parrafin restoration back to its original tinwork and p/p fuel tank

since i bought the villiers 25 p/p vapourizer engine 2010 backend ive had the tinwork for it in a very squashed state
as when i found the engine at the scrappy in the alloy skip and the tinwork as the driver said is over there
when i got to it the excavator had all ready drove over it ,there was a second set of tins that were in the scrap pile so i used them as i thought
they would be easyer to restore as i wasnt going to do it up like it ended up ,it was a junk toy to play with
until i learned the way to date villiers and the rareness of the vapouriser engines
so on and of since april last year ive been hammering heating bending, dressing the tin back to shape or as close as i could
this is photos of what they have had done in the last 2 weeks











just finished zinc coating and red leading and then outer faces filler primered sanding tomorrow night
and then painting will start again in 3-4 days
kev

Looking good Kev, you've made a good job out of the bent tin work and weathers warming up so the paint should dry ok and no flying bugs to worry about.

Stu.

here they are in there top primer coates on they have cure rust,high zinc and build primer flattend off again and then a spray filler acrilic primer
colour for best overcoating with the topcoat yellow for light colours and red for darker colours
well thats my way for doing it any way lol
leaving to harden until friday sat evening before flattening off ready for top coating
kev









also did the lister A water jacket/hooper at the weekend

Looking good busy beaver
Jonesey

Looks like it's of Noddy's car with them colours nice going Kev, I'm sure the top coat will be well worth all the hard work.

Stu.

Keep going at this rate and you'll have to buy some more engines to work on......

[quote="stationary stu"]Looks like it's of Noddy's car with them colours nice going Kev, I'm sure the top coat will be well worth all the hard work.

stu
cheers BIG EARS LOL lol LOL
KEV

DanBoy wrote:Keep going at this rate and you'll have to buy some more engines to work on......

hi dan
that is the way i do things
working on a couple more engines at this time
hope i can close the deal
anyway your as bad as me dan
kev

well done the first layer of to coating today
this will be layer number 8 and 1 or 2 more to go to finished
kev






and one for a trolley to test out the colour

kev

Looking good Kev and not a fly in sight

Stu.

ive not taken a photo of the little bas ard on the back lap of the cover
theres always one aint there
heres the bugger on camera lol

kev

You can see the great attention you pay to the work in hand in those photos Kev, really nice

Can you recommend a petrol proof laquer that works well? thanks!

Regards
Matt

hi there
will i have been using on my engines the same as what we used to use on brisca F1 stockcars
that the old and new drivers recomended to me
YACHT VARNISH ,just ask at your local automotive paint dealers and they will recommend the best one for the purpose
it was aplied to our professionaly sign writen car bodys ,and ive had diesel
,5 star petrol with octane buster added, yes i do mean 5 star petrol.
boiling sump oil and break fluid on the yacht varnish,
when other cars end up spilling there guts over your car paint work the engines were running a water temp of arround 140 oC
so its a good old stuff
kev

looking good kev...keep it up feller..
mike...

hi mike
have given the panels there 2-3 topcoats today
and the black has been lackered
so will photo tommorow when there dry
hope shine they have now is till there tomorrow
fingers and toes crossed
kev

well should look the nuts once you have finished
did you get my message mate????????(PM)
mike.....

mike d wrote:well should look the nuts once you have finished
did you get my message mate????????(PM)
mike.....

no mike what is it ???????
kev

ive sent another one to you mate..
mike...

got the pm and one to you mr D
kev

kevjhnsn wrote:got the pm and one to you Mr D
Kev

back to you mate...
mike...

mike
to you
to me
and back to you lol
im struggling for pms to get through
with out signing out and in again ,its a pain in the ass getting lol
kev

kevjhnsn wrote:mike
to you
to me
and back to you lol
im struggling for PMs to get through
with out signing out and in again ,its a pain in the ass getting lol
Kev

back again mate...

mike d wrote:

kevjhnsn wrote:mike
to you
to me
and back to you lol
im struggling for PMs to get through
with out signing out and in again ,its a pain in the ass getting lol
Kev

back again mate...

still no post pm mike 11 17

the bloody chuckle brothers down here lol

"oh dear oh dear"



matt

matt
thanks mate
an love you too lol lol
to you matt
kev