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Ultima reckon on about
£ 200 to "tool up". Here is a list of the tools
I had to buy. You may already have some of these (Ultima assume
so) and I found that not all were essential in the end (see
essential rating).
I spent around £ 600,
but this excludes the dolly and mega-double-winch made by a (good)
friend ! Hiring these may be costly and you may have the engine
in and out a few times (I did !).
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Dolly
Raised work benches
Pillar drill.
Air Riveter
Hand
Riveter
Air Nibbler
Compressor & air hoses
3.2mm drills x 20
Deburring tool
Cordless
drill + 2 batteries
Right Angle drill
Various drill bits
Metal
rules
Screwdrivers
Spanner & socket set
Digital calipers
Ties
(various sizes)
Adjustable spanners
Step drills (10,
20, 30mm)
Hole saw
Engine winch
Scalpel
and blades
Crimping tool
Thick wire cutter
Files
Dustpan & brush
Pens,
pencils, compass
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All stages to engine / box
Most jobs
Panelling
Riveting
Riveting
Cutting
ally panels
Powering rivet gun
Standard rivet hole
Cleaning
rivet holes
Whenever needed
Whenever needed
Ditto
Measuring
!
Screws
All nuts and bolts
Measuring
Securing wires / leads
Whenever needed
Holes
10mm to 30mm
Bigger dashboard holes
Lifting
engine and gearbox
Dash Alcantara
Electrics
For
release and accel cables
Filing panels / dash
The F1 garage look !
Daily
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£ nil
£ 48
£ 45
£ 65
£
4
£ 40
£ 66
£ 9
£
8
£ 36
£ 130
£ 6
£ 9
£ 6
£ 26
£ 9
£
3
£ 5
£ 35
£ 12
£
nil
£ 10
£ 10
£ 14
£ 11
£ 2
£
5
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7
10
7
10
10
3
10
10
10
10
10
+
10
10
5
10
10
5
0
8
8
10
10
10
6
10
10
10
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Made by a good friend. Safer than
axle stands & made moving the car easy.
You can't
work on the floor and the kitchen worktops were out of bounds !
Made panelling easier and also
essential for roll pins on gear rods
Too many to do by hand
There
are some hard to reach ones
I found this difficult to use
and got a better result using files and elbow grease !
Needed
to power air riveter
Needed only 5 in the end, they were
good quality but occasionally break.
All drilled holes need
cleaning out.
This got used a lot
Absolutely essential.
You can't build an Ultima without one !! There
are too many tight spots and restricted access
Get a good
range of metric sizes plus some 5/32 inch ones for the gear rods.
Accuracy
is everything. Get three, a one, two and three foot rules,
you'll need them all
Hardly recall using one ...
Get
a good metric set and the main imperial sizes. Most are metric
but some nuts on the engine / oil & fuel hoses are imperial.
NB You need sizes >19mm only on a few occasions.
Another
top tool !
Ultima supply these but you may need more
Bloody
useless things, went in the bin.
Used a lot, especially dash
and switchgear.
For sizes < 30mm I used the step drill
Purpose
built by a friend for free (would have cost £ 1,000). Essential
for engine, made fitting a breeze.
For trimming
There
are a fair number of connections
Some cables are too thick
for pliers.
Get some big ones and some small ones, a
standard set of each will do.
Swarf from ally gets everywhere
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Compass for circles for dash
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