Today I acquired...........

[MikeBB1970]

A trap for a rat faced workshop visitor , a new power supply unit and a book for reading when missus is watching those detective T.V. show whatsits . .

 

[dobbslc]

Good luck with the book, I've heard it can be very absorbing.......

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Forgot about the last - it measures 5" x 6" x 8", best guess at weight'd be 3 kg.

Anyone up for it?

 

[rosinante]

Set of paralells, sine bar perhaps

 

[ronan]

Set of slip gauges ?

 

[Seadog]

Well, box number 1

A general Radio Company toolkit for coaxial cable

No intrinsic value, but probably rare in complete condition.

Box number 2

A beautiful C. Baker microscope from the 1950s. No extra eyepieces but, nonetheless, a very nice piece.

Now, number 3...

A bigger box

A similar 1950s 'scope with a comprehensive range of eyepieces and other bits yet to be identified plus

A binocular adapter. I paid £100 for the lot and don't think I was done. I didn't even try to beat them down. It was house clearance, apparently, but I'm happy.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

YOU did not share.

I did - I told you about it, ergo I shared [the information]

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I did - I told you about it, ergo I shared [the information]

I think I need to QA it(ALL!)

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I think I need to QA it(ALL!)

Not going to happen.

 

[vw-al]

Both these started me thinking.
When I first bought my convoy I serviced it myself. the Jersey equivalent of eurocarparts gave me the filter for a tdci rather than a tddi by mistake. Finer filter and had identical issues.

Swapped it out this morning and it's been good as gold. Pulling better too.
Good news. Saves me running the car full of tools for a few days. Mot and service Wednesday

Glad it is sorted, I cut my old filter open after I had swapped it to check inside and it was black and gunky inside, it had only been on 11 months, think I might need a tank clean.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Not going to happen.

How mean.

 

[MattF]

How mean.

I thought he was being nice & polite. I'd have just gone with "f off".

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I thought he was being nice & polite. I'd have just gone with "f off".

That is because @slim_boy_fat has manners.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Glad it is sorted, I cut my old filter open after I had swapped it to check inside and it was black and gunky inside, it had only been on 11 months, think I might need a tank clean.

Me too.

Mine been on about 13 months, put off its service till the mot this year as short on time with work. Probably due to filling up little and regularly on my part, should really start brimming it.

 

[MikeBB1970]

Good luck with the book, I've heard it can be very absorbing.......

Some of it is ' light' reading dobbsic ; I will treat myself to the Onsite guide this week.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

That is because @slim_boy_fat has manners.

Just well hidden

 

[steviec_lj]

Pressie to me, justification is that I need to get some 25mm box from the steel suppliers for the kitchen cabinet base build and will have to cut them down to get them on the trailer won't I

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Is that the brushless model?
Where did you get it from?

Been looking for one myself, so I can use it at scrap yards or stockholders..

Thanks

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Both these started me thinking.
When I first bought my convoy I serviced it myself. the Jersey equivalent of eurocarparts gave me the filter for a tdci rather than a tddi by mistake. Finer filter and had identical issues.

Swapped it out this morning and it's been good as gold. Pulling better too.
Good news. Saves me running the car full of tools for a few days. Mot and service Wednesday

Spoke too soon.

Playing silly beggars again today. Roll on Wednesday.

 

[Turbo]

While in town om Thursday, I popped into MacGregors Ind Supplies [ideally I should never be allowed in there unsupervised ] to get some more gloves and left with them, plus this, a 10" x 3" blank of spalted beech thinking I could use it, cut to make 2 off blanks 1.5" deep each instead of using the oak I mentioned in another post. I'd then have the oak + a spare beech blank for something else down the line. I bought it because I liked the pattern(s) in it - the outside of the block feels to be covered in wax, perhaps some of our woodbotherers [@The_Yellow_Ardvark?] can let us know why that is? It is obviously removed in cutting/turning.

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However....I Googled 'spalted beech' and discovered that the patterns in the wood are caused by a fungus, harmless to most folk but potentially dangerous for folk like me with a compromised immune system from the myeloma.

So, unless the chap up the road can accommodate it in his band saw at 10", then turn it in his wood lathe to give the 'barrel edges' I'm after for the small project, it'll be going back to MacGregors for a refund, or at worst a credit note.

You learn something new every day.

We use quite a lot of spalted beech at our mens shed. When it's felled you need to seal the end grain asap to slow the seasoning process, otherwise it cracks. We just paint the ends with pva sealer, leave the bark on & put it somewhere dry but exposed for a couple of years to dry out. We get it cut into planks as it makes beautiful benches.

 

[Melvyn Best]

Spoke too soon.

Playing silly beggars again today. Roll on Wednesday.

Check the fuel pressure, I’ve had problems with several common rail engines with exactly the same symptoms. Changing the fuel pressure regulator on the end of the fuel rail has cured them . Some diagnostic equipment can give a live pressure reading
but you may well have a fault code for low fuel pressure . Main agents are likely to try selling a complete fuel rail but some fuel specialists can sell just the regulator , helps if you have a fuel rail part number found on the rail