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Woodie

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Date of registration: Oct 2nd 2007

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Location: Johannesburg

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Saturday, January 30th 2010, 9:03pm

Taking detailing to another level.

Well raising the bar by +-450mm to be exact.

Have you ever wished you had a little more space to get in underneath a car to clean the undercarriage, suspension bits, exhaust, etc? Or wished that you could get some relief for an aching back as you contort yourself to get to the lower sections of a car when machine polishing? Well I often have and decided to do something about it. I bought the material for this project last year already and it has been laying in my garage waiting for me to gain some inspiration.

The project - a ramp that will allow me to park a car 450mm off the ground allowing better access to the undercarriage and raising the lower sections of the body panels to a more convenient polishing height. The ramp consists of a left and right section, each made up of separately bolted together sections measuring 2m (to allow disassembly for moving the ramp). The total ramp therefore measures 6m from end to end.

Some pictures - This was my first experience welding, but I had the assistance of a proficient welder to help me. I just got to weld the less important areas :D .











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450HW

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Thursday, February 4th 2010, 3:17pm

One makulu ramp you have there mister!
Will sure make work on the lower parts easier.
With a traveling thingie in the middle and a jack on it,and you can lift the car to work on the undercarriage at a convenient height.
Enjoy your new ramp! :thumbup:
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Starvekos

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Thursday, February 11th 2010, 7:38am

Can't wait to pop in and see this for myself. Nicely done Woodie
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Woodie

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Friday, February 12th 2010, 9:59pm

Can't wait to pop in and see this for myself. Nicely done Woodie


Well, if I was your date you'd be in the dog box by now. You keep on standing me up. ;)
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