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Is it too expensive to plough then lift the rocky soil and run it ovr a sugar beet sort of conveyor belt screen to remove a large proportion of the stones or use a roller with a punch paddle to push them down below the surface
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To be fair those size of stones aren't an issue, this field didn't get rolled as it rained the day after I drilled it will get it rolled next week when plants are strong enough.
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For cereal crops its not needed, those stones will push down with the rollers once we get to it. The clods and stones actually help stop the surface slumping and setting hard if we get heavy rain after drilling, we run a wedge ring pacer on our power harrows, they compact and crush clods on a 50mm wide strip in line with each seeding Coulter, the Coulter then plants into the nice fine soil and the rear harrows rake the rougher soil from between the rows over the top to protect it.
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Back to the hard facing wire, we can buy various hardened points, tungsten tipped ones and hard faced with wire ones.
These are rough prices but a standard point is £10, hardened point is £17 and tungsten tipped is £50. What we've found is the £17 ones last about 5-10% longer than the £10 so not worth it, the £50 tungsten ones either chip or break off the tiles, if that doesn't happen after they've done 2-3 times the work of a £10 one they wear thin behind the tiles and bend when you hit a big rock.
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Yeah this is a tungsten carbide wire brazed on to the part. Can't chip like the choc blocks or normal Hardfacing wire because the tungsten carbide is in a very tough nickel matrix.
I think you'd be around the £50 mark for the tips again though given gas prices and the wire is a few thousand pounds a reel.
I think you'd be around the £50 mark for the tips again though given gas prices and the wire is a few thousand pounds a reel.
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Closer still.
Should have most of it done tomorrow.
Waiting on some more cables for the final patchbay. Adding the extra mixer ate up my surplus.
Some led strips arriving tomorrow
Should have most of it done tomorrow.
Waiting on some more cables for the final patchbay. Adding the extra mixer ate up my surplus.
Some led strips arriving tomorrow
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All you need now is a clear weather and your good for take off.
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Impressed with with your obvious knowledge of all that kit.
I haven't even been able to work out how to edit a standard patch on my A4 paper- sized Zoom R8 hobby machine. I keep reading the instructions but due to old age I keep missing a step out. 
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Does have a cockpit vibe about it in the dark.
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Thanks. Been an entertaining few years learning.Impressed with with your obvious knowledge of all that kit.
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Hardest part was sorting out my midi routings so everything plays nicely together.
The synths are the easy bit. Once you understand one you understand them all. Unless it's a dx7. FM is a pig.
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Today. I fitted the ram and brackets on the newly installed bulkhead. A tosser of a job. Unfortunately I had to cut the studs down a little to get the brackets over the studs. Everything runs so close. The top two studs are a little short and not protruding through the nylons. Not happy.
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You've created none self-locking nuts there. Could you skim a little off the rear of the nuts to allow sufficient bolt to engage fully?
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Yes I know. Its a pain as I didn't want to cut the stud. I can skim the nut down. Will try that.
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thinner washers would also help a little those are quite thick
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You can get half nuts with a locking device on them. It’s a metal version of a nyloc. Can’t remember the name.
Could stake the nuts I suppose.
Or crossdrill and wire lock but if access is bad then maybe not….
Edit. Here. https://www.fastenright.com/general-fixings/all-metal-self-locking-nut-thin/sl04
I would sit when you “Make an Enquiry“ mind unless you can blag half a dozen ‘samples’
Could stake the nuts I suppose.
Or crossdrill and wire lock but if access is bad then maybe not….
Edit. Here. https://www.fastenright.com/general-fixings/all-metal-self-locking-nut-thin/sl04
I would sit when you “Make an Enquiry“ mind
unless you can blag half a dozen ‘samples’ 