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Nearly two months has passed. I´ve done som cleaning up of plastic parts, testfitting of the chassie and..... The wheels are terrible to get right. I blame the plastic parts in the hub and the very lousy jig. I should have made myself a new jig of metal, but.. done is done. Some pics of the wheels completed except for the tire. The tire is very, very hard to mount. I have tried to heat them carefully and it helped some.

Paul Koo:s dvd:s are, at least for me, a must. I have bought 4 of them to my variuos kit:s awating on the shelf. I had not been able to finish the Fiat without them. I intend to do at least new sparkplugs and tilt the spare tires and move the engine backwards and......and.... and... Then I se some builds here, that are so marvelous with so many details that my ego get a real punch! There is so much you can do to improve a kit, but it requires skill that I not have. So my goal will be a resonable corrected kit, built with some minor detail upgrades. The main challenge with those old pocher kits is the build sequence. You are forced to build a part to fit it with som other part and then dissasemble the newly built part to be able to fit something else to it. And there is why Paul Koo:s dvd:s are invaluable. Well enough "pladder" for this time.

Haven´t been here for a while... Found this - absolutely amazing!!!

Hello! After my latest success with completing a Pocher Fiat kit I decided it was time to start a new challenge. The building of a partially started (not by me) kit of an Alfa Romeo by Pocher. The kit have some warped plastic and some very brittle dito. The kit is complete, but I have ordered a new set of decals. Well here we go!

A short follow up. Went to a model(car) show. Well all kind of models, but mainly cars and a swap meet as well. And, I got the organizers prize and won first prize in Big Scale with my first Pocher attempt. Time to open up and review the started kit (K71) of Alfa-Romeo I bought couple of years ago. But that have to be in another thread. Thank You all!

Finally, I decided the build finished. A short video on Youtube here.

The struggle continue. Todays task was to fit the damper, the stearing and the starter. The damper started yesterday with the bending around a piece of steal in correct dimension. Not to hard, despite the screws are a little short. The stearing is/was a challange. To obtain some room a decided to change my steering ends. A have earlier made shorter and more suitable to my wrapped leaf springs. Next was to bend a new tie rod between my new steering ends. The new ends required a longer rod. Not an easy task, it took me two pieces and a number of bendings. And the small connection rod just broke off and to make a new one, took me a while. And after finding the right length and the right bending it looks like a small snake. But after all it works and the stearing is equal in both directions. Thus it matter? No one will ever se other than the snake! :-) Since I choose to add a lot of gear, the shaft does not go thru the engine and forward so I need to solve the starting handle. I choose, correct or not, to simulate a large spring that hold the starter off the gear when running. A piece of brass tubing and some soldering and some work with lathe solved it. I am rather happy how it came out. And finally I find the missing link to the drive chain. But I dont bother to brake it up to replace it. I´ll just paint the plastic link. Well, as usual, enjoy the pics and feel free to comment. All pics from the building is here

Hi there! After leaving the car to mature for some months, I thought it is time to take up the building again. My goal is to have it enough presentable to an exhibition beginning of july. As usual, nothing fits. Missing link to the chain was replaced by a piece of plsticard. I also have a habit of doing things in wrong order, resulting in screw in, screw out, screw in, screw out....... I also did the paint job way to early. Well enjoy the pics.

Oh! Thank You!

Slow progress, but ir start to like a car. But since I can´t let go of things, I had to tie something around the leaf springs. I guess it was a comon thing to do in the early days of motoring.The front leaf springs where very to long and the rear springs where just about to long. But after a few hours I finally got them in place. However, the known problem with the faulty distance between the screw hole in the rear axle was to be found on my kit also. To correct it, I glued in a piece of styrene and took the axle to my milling machine. The 127 mm became the necessary 130 mm between the screw holes. Another thing that bothered me was the hood. I had to cut it open so it can be opened in a correct way. I made a simple hinge that I glued in with some ca.Some pics to view. More as usual here: http://pocher.eksund.se Enjoy!

After a year with serious health problem I finally got back to my Fiat. Some work on the engine and the rails. Hopefully I will be able to get the car done before 2017. The problem with this old kit is that the plastic is so brittle and it is not very detailed. Not being even a decent scratch builder make me struggle. Anyway, here is a pic of the engine as it looks now.

A bit further! I have struggled with the driving of the rpm cable. There is a belt or wire from the water pump axle. I tried a number of things and are not in possession of any useable material. But I found that a threaded copper wire looks quite all right. The copper wire has been heat treated before bending. I have also all my pictures at pocher.eksund.se Welcome to take a look.

Thank You I have the DVD:s from Paul Koo and I had find an excellent build blog with every step in building. But I lost it and can´t find it again. I have put the engine aside for a few days, trying to restrain myself of overdoing things I can´t manage. I instead started to clean up some plastic and sorting all the metals in a plastic box. I have the feel I need to get the engine in the frame to see if it all fits, so that is my next thing to do. Another scary thing is the "melting metod". I have not yet tried it, but there is obviously some benefits. Still struggling with how to present the pictures in a easy way, but that will come.

Hello folks! As a newbie in the Pocher swamp, I thought it would be correct to start build the first one. Pocher Fiat F-2 (K70). I found a picture on scale motorcars showing the model I have chosen to build. It obviously had it fuel line direct in to the engine bay as the K70. The later model have their fuel line going through the firewall. It also have a fuel pump between the seats, instead of the one outside the body. It also lacks a number of visible fuel lines on the outside of the body. Sorry for not be able to show you the picture here. Since I writing in a foreign language I beg forgiveness if it some times make no sense or my spelling all but right. It all started at a swap meet i june, where I was to sell a lot of plastic that would never be built, at least not by me. There was a guy who had a kit by Pocher Alfa Romeo. I must have went past his sales table at least 50 times, before I finally bought the kit. A few parts where missing but by then I had established a contact with Peter at pocherpart, who helped me out. He also sold me this kit. I am not sure if its allowed but I have started a blog where I have some pictures of my attempt to build the engine. http://pocher.vidarfransson.se I will try to post pictures direct here in the future, with some explanation. I think the pictures will speak for themselves. Without the internet and the community I never could have figured out all that has to be done with this old and quite fragile kit, to get it reasonable correct. Well, I am in for a great task that will take a lot of time. I get some new ideas the whole time. It is also a challenge to get all the "home made" stuff to fit together and with the kit. At least I have started it. Vidar