Ramp install - we haz soundz

Post by **vanzep** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:35 pm

That looks good wurly

bright enough that you dont need an inspection lamp

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 2:29 pm

NafemanNathan wrote:Would you consider drilling and tapping to fit some P-clips or even just a small piece of flat to hold the LED strip in position?

Drilling the metal on that ramp would be a total PITA.
I was thinking I might use something like a lindapter (though hopefully something lighter duty than that

) if needs be.

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 2:31 pm

Some minature ones of these...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=table ... CAcQ_AUoAg

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 2:39 pm

Yep, they could work - good call!

Post by **simonc** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:52 am

Disco ain't dead.

Looks great Iain, when's the opening party?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:00 pm

Thanks to some very kind help by susperstar @Donald today my ramp now has properly fitted access ramps, that even a lowered car can get up/on with

Just need to tap a couple of holes so the ramps can be bolted down properly at the top.

Donald also finished off installing the second lighting baton and sockets for me. I just need to wire them up back to the isolator.

Post by **Donald** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:25 pm

"So what colour is what?"
"Are you colour blind?"
"No I just don't know what colour goes where."

Post by **Vtecmec** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:07 pm

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 10:25 pm

A few weeks ago I tapped out the holes for the access ramps and used them properly secured for the first time. All Good

If only I hadn't been impatient when moving the CX that was parked over the yellow brace bar on the floor... That way I would have waited till the suspension had lifted and not dragged it on the chassis of the car, bending it

Anyway, moving on...

Last weekend I started sorting out the rest of the electrical gubbins. I started with the hard bit, fitting another SWA cable into the isolator (hard because SWA is a bit of PITA to work with, but mostly because everything is so bloody cramped within the isolator

) that took bloody ages as a result, so I ran out of time to do the other end, meaning... That I couldn't use the ramp because I would have a live flapping end

So today, when I was meant to be starting to put the 3g back together, I was instead drokking about with more electrics.

This is where I got to;

Yeah, it's a little bit of a pigs breakfast of a layout, but meh, it's what came together in the time and space I had.

Anyway...

Sorry to say @Donald, you failed and will have to try harder next time...

So that's now 2 fluorescent lights and a double socket all working up in that corner of the barn.
Result, because a) it means I can see without having to run several kw of gas-discharge lamps (so I can stay with FOC electricity) b) because it means I don't have to traipse across the barn to plug in an extension lead every day and boil the kettle while it's perched on the trailer

The lights run off 1 phase (and are separately switched) the sockets are on another phase. Both are live whenever the isolator at the front of the barn is on (i.e. they're not affected by the local isolator I installed for the ramp). There's space in the junction box for another 5 things to be wired straight in as and when (1 each for the 2 phases already used and 2 on the third phase).

If you want an example of how much I enjoyed installing all that crap - when it was absolutely hammering it down with rain, I instead went outside and spent 20 minutes unblocking the landlords slot drain across the main entrance, for absolutely no benefit to me what-so-ever

Tomorrow, I'll actually run the main earth connection in to that lot

Then at some point I need to decide how I want to properly wire the LED ramp lights in.