Miranda
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I’m a tough girl, me.
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Memmeddu
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I was looking at new fuel pumps for my trials car as it seemed to run very fast and noisily, while not pumping any fuel at the weekend when I attempted to start it for the first time in 18mths.Thought my led flood light had broken today until i realised i had plugged a corded drill in instead
Realised a day later I'd turned on the on-board air compressor for the tyres rather than the fuel pump
It actually ran perfectly . . . once I'd remembered which switch it was . . .
Monkey Harris
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so.....memory broken...I was looking at new fuel pumps for my trials car as it seemed to run very fast and noisily, while not pumping any fuel at the weekend when I attempted to start it for the first time in 18mths.
Realised a day later I'd turned on the on-board air compressor for the tyres rather than the fuel pump
It actually ran perfectly . . . once I'd remembered which switch it was . . .
More the "permanent" marker scribble on the dash had worn off . . .so.....memory broken...
Red'n'Black
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The log splitter.
Can't complain much, it took fifteen years of being whacked with a sledge hammer before it gave up.
Don't think I'll bother trying to weld it
Can't complain much, it took fifteen years of being whacked with a sledge hammer before it gave up.
Don't think I'll bother trying to weld it
Memmeddu
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I would try , it's nothing specialThe log splitter.
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Can't complain much, it took fifteen years of being whacked with a sledge hammer before it gave up.
Don't think I'll bother trying to weld it
Striking face it's not tempered and it's not necessary to be hardened it's just wood
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Maybe. I'll give it a go when I get a minute.
I had one of them - and couldn't get on with it - how do you get it started?The log splitter.
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Can't complain much, it took fifteen years of being whacked with a sledge hammer before it gave up.
Don't think I'll bother trying to weld it
I went back to simply smacking them with a splitting maul
Mine died for no reason -stripped it - the thermal fuse had popped. To get at it practically scrapped the fan. Bin jobNew thread
today its the turn of the bathroom extractor fan to pack in. Which being an inline fan in the attic means crawling in fibreglass to get at. Hopefully its just fluffed up .
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Earlier this week I was cutting some slices of mahogany on my mitre saw, one of the slices vanished just as I cut through it and I couldn't find it anywhere. Thinking it must have gone down behind the bench I cut another one, a day later I thought the saw was struggling a bit and the blade was getting warmer than usual although the blade looked okay so thought I would treat the saw to a new blade, the blade arrived and when I removed the old blade this is what I found jammed against the blade pretty much out of sight with the blade in position.
I had to prise it out with a screwdriver.
Its no wonder the blade was tight to turn when I was removing it. Glad I didn't ignore it, don't reckon it would have done the motor much good in the long term.
I had to prise it out with a screwdriver.
Its no wonder the blade was tight to turn when I was removing it. Glad I didn't ignore it, don't reckon it would have done the motor much good in the long term.
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I just hold it upright, give it a few taps with the sledge held just behind the head, a few harder wallops to seat it firmly, then take a full swing at it.
Straight grained stuff normally goes first time, really hard knotty oak and such will need a bit more effort. I have considered hydraulic splitters etc but this is (a) cheaper (b) better exercise and (c) takes up a lot less space in the shed.
I decided against trying to re-grind it in the end, I'd have to re-cut the serrations as well which are an important part of the design to stop it jumping out.
Well not exactly today but last week, The hard drive on my computer threw up the black screen of death by refusing to boot. Turned it off & on again & it started ok, Ran a full backup of all files (the first in ages) & two days later it expired properly.
Took the machine in & the SSD drive was indeed fubared. The man asks "Do you have a backup?" "As it happens yes". We are in luck & have managed to save virtually everything.
Machine back today & i now have to re install much software.
So folks, backup drives are good, make sure you use them regularly!
Took the machine in & the SSD drive was indeed fubared. The man asks "Do you have a backup?" "As it happens yes". We are in luck & have managed to save virtually everything.
Machine back today & i now have to re install much software.
So folks, backup drives are good, make sure you use them regularly!
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I loose my rag when I say to people years ago use back up
Yet when they go wrong people moan they lost there data
And when people bring there laptop/deak top and it needs a reload and I say take it back and back up your data oh can't you do it
Yes but a reload will take me an hour ish finding and backing up all your data and then putting back in it place will take hours you want to pay me for that when you can do it
I'm glad I dont work on pc /laptop unless it's my own family's now
Yet when they go wrong people moan they lost there data
And when people bring there laptop/deak top and it needs a reload and I say take it back and back up your data oh can't you do it
Yes but a reload will take me an hour ish finding and backing up all your data and then putting back in it place will take hours you want to pay me for that when you can do it
I'm glad I dont work on pc /laptop unless it's my own family's now
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In my house that should read stuff my kids broke today.New thread
today its the turn of the bathroom extractor fan to pack in. Which being an inline fan in the attic means crawling in fibreglass to get at. Hopefully its just fluffed up .
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snap but there less of them now but the stuffs getting older so its about the same pace
