Barking Mat
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Clients felt differently, it was broken, needed fixing.
Totally agree with you.
It got fixed.
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Totally agree with you.
It got fixed.
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Ive an old photo somewhere of me-stood in a bow thruster tube holding a brush full stretch over my head!
Barking Mat
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Bigger bow thrusters than mine.
addjunkie
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probably about 40000 ton bigger
DAPPH
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Of course they can have beards .........with glitter too .The job was simple…
My young daughter would like one of her fairy’s in the garden to have her head back, following a distressing incident involving her younger brother…
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2 minutes later and I am the best dad in the world…
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And then the welding helmet comes up!
Oops! Total job time is increased to 30 minutes due to having to convince my little girl that fairy’s can have beards! Phew!
Mr fairy is returned to the garden to happily rejoin his friends!
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Bought new and had to be fixed. Cheap hammer & dolly set. Original surface finish on the larger dolly for comparison. Maybe I went a bit overkill on the polished dolly, but the hammer faces can be like that IMO. I guess I will have to see how it holds up in actual use, the dollies look to be cast iron, who knows how hard the hammers are. I will fix up all the rest of the dollies, maybe not like the 1st but near enough.
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Hell of a job, new soft top fitted, not perfect but good enough given it is seldom ever up.
sparkysy
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It must be the day for it, I fitted new disks and pads, control arms and anti-roll bar bushes to SWMBO's car today only to find the lower arm bushes were shot on both sides! 
Upside is found a pair for less than 50quid on the bay!
Upside is found a pair for less than 50quid on the bay!
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Replaced wheel bearings on the Shogun and unfortunately hub knuckles too. Pig of a job and the heat didn’t help either.
Made worse that the Clarke Machine Mart ball joint splitter failed with little effort. It’s the pincer type and as I tightened it down the fork part just folded over. After never managing to break ball joints free using the two hammer method today I mastered it, just as well or I would have been ********.
Made worse that the Clarke Machine Mart ball joint splitter failed with little effort. It’s the pincer type and as I tightened it down the fork part just folded over. After never managing to break ball joints free using the two hammer method today I mastered it, just as well or I would have been ********.
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An irksome occurence can lead to a good/unexpected conclusion.
Was saying to my mum, just earlier today, that fate has some weird ways/methods.
James1979
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That’s a good trick to master. The other one that never fails me is a Thor No4 and whump the crap out of it. You kinda need to have the knack of where to hit it but it’s like your double hammers - now you’ve figured it you’ll do it every time.
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Copper.
If you’ve got the swing room, use the copper end and really **** it on the outer part of the tapered housing. They’ll always pop.
Sometimes I need to use a No3 because of less space but you really need to **** it.
If you can master it you save a lot of damaged rubber boots.
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Last couple of days I finally fixed my 9 inch grinder to a heavy duty section of thick steel channel, added a welded on plate to mount a Draper 1180 drill grinding device .
The grinder fitted exactly as planned , so did the drill sharpener but the sharpener is about as much use as a chocolate teapot , far to much play in the pivot point meant I had two totally different cutting angles . Waah!.
I purchased the sharpener about 10years ago hoping to fit it before I needed it . Pleased to say I can still sharpen all sized drills better than than the 1180 .
Next step is to find a small face sander machine , as sharpening drills on one is a doddle even if you have Parkinson's disease .
Also discovered that the Libre 2 diabetic blood sensor device you stick on your skin is frazzled by the high energy plasma arc . Finished working cleaned up came in , had a shower and a drink of orange took my blood sugar 9.4 cleaned my teeth and had forty winks . I woke up with the diabetic alarm sounding for low blood sugar .
Huh? reading 1.4 m.mol , a few min later reading 1 ............. heading for a serious low sugar hypo?
One quick high sugar drink down my neck and 20 min later, I read the meter again & get a message declaring " Your sensor is unreadable... change sensor ."
You have to wait one hour after activating the new sensor for it to take several calibrating readings then take a new first time intentional reading. Panic off nothing is untoward reading safely within my range
The grinder fitted exactly as planned , so did the drill sharpener but the sharpener is about as much use as a chocolate teapot , far to much play in the pivot point meant I had two totally different cutting angles . Waah!.
I purchased the sharpener about 10years ago hoping to fit it before I needed it . Pleased to say I can still sharpen all sized drills better than than the 1180 .
Next step is to find a small face sander machine , as sharpening drills on one is a doddle even if you have Parkinson's disease .
Also discovered that the Libre 2 diabetic blood sensor device you stick on your skin is frazzled by the high energy plasma arc . Finished working cleaned up came in , had a shower and a drink of orange took my blood sugar 9.4 cleaned my teeth and had forty winks . I woke up with the diabetic alarm sounding for low blood sugar .
Huh? reading 1.4 m.mol , a few min later reading 1 ............. heading for a serious low sugar hypo?
One quick high sugar drink down my neck and 20 min later, I read the meter again & get a message declaring " Your sensor is unreadable... change sensor ."
You have to wait one hour after activating the new sensor for it to take several calibrating readings then take a new first time intentional reading. Panic off nothing is untoward reading safely within my range
Ive been working on a toy steam engine today. its a Signal Equipment Limited (SEL 1550). its a simple twin cylinder single acting oscillating engine from the 1950's. I wanted an engine (or two) to got to the Steam Toys and Meccano shaw at Leeds Industrial Museum on 30/07/23. I wanted one that looked to be used and not restored, so I thought this was a tidy example, as toys need to be played with. its also shown here with a Wilesco D6 that I got for the same event.
when I got it, it just about ran, but a few tweaks were necessary to get it to run better.
1) The whistle valve was leaking badly and I think someone had tried to fix it before as the spindle in the vale was bent, and that snapped as I tried to straighten it. I have to make another one, and this was fitted with a silicone rubber tube so that it didnt burn my fingers when I operated it.
2) the pistons were a bit worn as they were rattling about in the cylinders, so I made some new pistons, I decided to go for several small grooves to have some sealing effect.
3)one of the wick holders was missing so I had to make another one ( you could just about get it to run with one wick rather than two). but I made two as I changed to using a fibreglass wick, as these dont burn (like the original cotton ones do), and they are sold as 4mm glassfibre rope for oven seals.
The port faces on the cylinders were quiet worn too so these were flycut so that the port face also aligned with the cylinders
and after its refurbishment, it still looks like its well used.
and running under steam. I get 25 minutes running from 50cc of water and 13cc of meths, I think that is long enough, no need to fill a boiler with water as it just takes far too long to warm up. with 50cc of cold water it takes 5 minutes to heat up (would be quicker if hot water is used).
when I got it, it just about ran, but a few tweaks were necessary to get it to run better.
1) The whistle valve was leaking badly and I think someone had tried to fix it before as the spindle in the vale was bent, and that snapped as I tried to straighten it. I have to make another one, and this was fitted with a silicone rubber tube so that it didnt burn my fingers when I operated it.
2) the pistons were a bit worn as they were rattling about in the cylinders, so I made some new pistons, I decided to go for several small grooves to have some sealing effect.
3)one of the wick holders was missing so I had to make another one ( you could just about get it to run with one wick rather than two). but I made two as I changed to using a fibreglass wick, as these dont burn (like the original cotton ones do), and they are sold as 4mm glassfibre rope for oven seals.
The port faces on the cylinders were quiet worn too so these were flycut so that the port face also aligned with the cylinders
and after its refurbishment, it still looks like its well used.
and running under steam. I get 25 minutes running from 50cc of water and 13cc of meths, I think that is long enough, no need to fill a boiler with water as it just takes far too long to warm up. with 50cc of cold water it takes 5 minutes to heat up (would be quicker if hot water is used).
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I have the same 2 engines.
The D6 has one weak point.
The steam pipe to cylinder connection. It is a simple fix.
The SEL engine is powerfull.
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Those Libre 2 devices are great, a you relative has one and allows her so much more freedom but as you’ve demonstrated not infallible. Unlikely that she'll be encountering high energy plasma arcs but she is still at school so might be possible in a classroom. Glad you resolved it before it became a problem.
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I got this Gas standard pole access plate
Thanks to the forum I know were it came from.
WWW allowed me to find out it is from a gas standard, the lugs are to give away.
A week in paint stripper had no effect on the layers of paint.
So.........
That burnt the paint off, all 4 layers of it.
Then it was de rusted.
First coat of wax and oil.
All done, 8 layers of wax and oil have been applied.
Thanks to the forum I know were it came from.
WWW allowed me to find out it is from a gas standard, the lugs are to give away.
A week in paint stripper had no effect on the layers of paint.
So.........
That burnt the paint off, all 4 layers of it.
Then it was de rusted.
First coat of wax and oil.
All done, 8 layers of wax and oil have been applied.
You should have heard the outrage when I suggested that method on the Lotus 7 cub forum quite some years ago
I have a little screw type ball joint separator as well as a pickle fork type, both bought when I was around 17, 35 yrs ago. I have no idea where the fork is, but the screw type one is usefull for removing windscreen wiper arms
