gasket999
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A lifelong ambition has been to build a workshop fit to spend my autumn years taking my car restorations a little more seriously.
We’ve got the plot and the build drawings are next on the list. Current spec is 12mx9m with a lift.
The only other piece of tooling I’ve coveted but don’t have is a body jig.
The sorts of cars I work on are - land rovers (no need for a jig unless I’m doing repairs to a chassis, not sure if there’s a celette fixture set available for chassis repairs, as a new chassis is not expensive - though would be handy for isolated rear crossmember repairs), minis, classic fords and I’d like to start looking at 80s BMWs and some MGs.
The budget could stretch to some of the celette jigs I’ve seen on eBay - I recognise that the car-specific fixture sets are another expense. The plan would be to invest in a set whenever I buy a new project and to either keep them or sell them on completion.
But I’m getting really confused as to whether there is a ‘standard’ Celette jig or whether they’re all inexchangably different. I’m seeing terms like ‘car-o-liner’, Blackhawk, Griffon, etc and am thoroughly stumped. As any model I look at will be long out of production, I can’t even ask Celette for help.
So wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of a ‘universal’ Celette jig, what to look for and what generic bolt-on parts to look for.
Or… are the car-specific kits so expensive and difficult to find that I’d be better welding up my own chassis jig from universal beam and making each jig set to suit rather than focusing on a branded Celette product given I’ll be doing one car a year? I do have a hydraulic body ram kit and a series of pullers that I could use to good effect with a strong known-true frame.
Thank you.
We’ve got the plot and the build drawings are next on the list. Current spec is 12mx9m with a lift.
The only other piece of tooling I’ve coveted but don’t have is a body jig.
The sorts of cars I work on are - land rovers (no need for a jig unless I’m doing repairs to a chassis, not sure if there’s a celette fixture set available for chassis repairs, as a new chassis is not expensive - though would be handy for isolated rear crossmember repairs), minis, classic fords and I’d like to start looking at 80s BMWs and some MGs.
The budget could stretch to some of the celette jigs I’ve seen on eBay - I recognise that the car-specific fixture sets are another expense. The plan would be to invest in a set whenever I buy a new project and to either keep them or sell them on completion.
But I’m getting really confused as to whether there is a ‘standard’ Celette jig or whether they’re all inexchangably different. I’m seeing terms like ‘car-o-liner’, Blackhawk, Griffon, etc and am thoroughly stumped. As any model I look at will be long out of production, I can’t even ask Celette for help.
So wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of a ‘universal’ Celette jig, what to look for and what generic bolt-on parts to look for.
Or… are the car-specific kits so expensive and difficult to find that I’d be better welding up my own chassis jig from universal beam and making each jig set to suit rather than focusing on a branded Celette product given I’ll be doing one car a year? I do have a hydraulic body ram kit and a series of pullers that I could use to good effect with a strong known-true frame.
Thank you.