Druid's 'Drema's Druidfab Attachments !!

**#1531** » 11:22:13, 21-01-2020

Great job done again. :thummar:

**#1532** » 12:28:36, 21-01-2020

V8Druid skrev:Make a mechanic of her yet

You´d better :shake_hands:

Then when the guys try to brag she just tell ém what she knows and what she can do, diggin´ with Drema, fix an ABS-system, weld and more :thummar:

Important task for Druid!!! :shake_hands:

Will try to keep weather as requested! :mrgreen:

**#1533** » 01:46:39, 22-01-2020

Was seriously white here at half seven this morning ...

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Vicki had four goes at the drive, getting back out, heading for work, after dropping Clara .Might go rob the salt/grit bin up the road tomorrow if it's the same again tonight !!!
MOT booked first thing ... Passed at 15.00 with flying colours ... test man said i only wanted/needed you to change the rubber boots ... yeh right mate ... he's good as gold TBH ..... think he was pulling me leg ...... 'specially when he asked if they'd been much of a job ...... checked the tracking .... absolutely BANG on (y) .... said he couldn't have done better with the laser gauges ... very happy with that
Sodding great pothole on the A465 on the way home managed to bring an ABS/traction control light on on the dash .... sensor must've moved ... quick look in the a.m., but reset itself with an off/on of the ignition, so can't be a lot

finished me first week of treatment tab.s last night ... onto box/week two this morning .... seems OK 90% of the time, now, aside from an iffy head after the night time ones.

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re the potholed road ...... there's bloody miles of it ... been at it years and are circa a year behind, spent millions on a lot of un-necessary BS bits and caused chaos in the process

first time in the last half a dozen trips along there that i actually saw a machine working today

https://gov.wales/a465-gilwern-brynmawr-overview

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-42138747

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/cost-widening-last-section-a465-15373924

almost all of the elevated sections in the right of the video have been in filled/built up !!!!!!! the L/h lane is the original level of what was a 3 lane road

**#1534** » 09:54:26, 22-01-2020

Congrats Oh Druid! :shake_hands:

**#1535** » 12:17:49, 22-01-2020

**#1536** » 23:36:00, 22-01-2020

weather back to normal here today :sad:

.... can't see further than the end of the lawn :huh:

... but at least it's just damp not pissing down .... but means everything you put down or touch is damp too !! :aaargh:

ran the genny up this morning to power the plasma, belt grinder (with a nice new 36 grit belt) :grin:

and the band saw.
intent on doing something other than grovel under the P38 and that i enjoy .... :thumme:

this got started before crimbo ... :vissla:

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corners trimmed and then reset it for 'ron' ... :vissla:

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'fraid i forgot to get any plasma pix ... :sad:

but basically trimmed this up and some extra bits for attaching to it ..... :thumme:

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looks a bit tidier with the sharps off it :cool:

then it got boss-ed up :thummar:

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and finally a coat of shiny tish, 'fore heading in for a late tea ... Pam's circuits night on a Wednesday, so always late eating, when she gets home after 'em.

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die grinder and a flap wheel shines up the pin holes nicely :grin:

Was nice to have the evening so light last night .. drawing out nicely ... pity tonight wasn't the same ... had to lug this inside onto a bench in me box ... heavy enough too :uupps:

next bit tomorrow .... got plasma-ed this morning ... and ground up on the belt ... assembly time if it doesn't pee down :huh:

**#1537** » 00:15:13, 23-01-2020

V8Druid skrev:weather back to normal here today .... can't see further than the end of the lawn ... but at least it's just damp not pissing down .... but means everything you put down or touch is damp too !!

Frightful sorry, Oh Druid :ohnej:

I lost me concentration on the weather :snow:

Have to quote a Monty Python scetch: "Sorry Sir, won´t happen again!" :mrgreen:

**#1538** » 22:54:38, 24-01-2020

magirus skrev:
V8Druid skrev:weather back to normal here today .... can't see further than the end of the lawn ... but at least it's just damp not pissing down .... but means everything you put down or touch is damp too !!

Frightful sorry, Oh Druid I lost me concentration on the weather
Have to quote a Monty Python scetch: "Sorry Sir, won´t happen again!"

so you're on holiday Sunday .. are you ...... 'sposed to be horrendous here :aaargh:

Well yesterday was a total write off ... RAF day :sad:

.... did sod all, other than take Clara to nursery for nine, picked her up at three fifteen and some grand dadding 'til half five .... She makes me smile, :smile:

even when I'm feeling ropey .. sits in her seat in the back of the P38 with a map book on her lap feeding me directions :lmao:

... as in "yellow road Grand dad, silver next, red one soon " ... God knows what page she's one ?? LOL :vissla:

Anyway .. better day today :thumme:

.... the adapter got a second coat first thing, while the fog cleared - a bit, 'fore I got the gear out .. :grin:

slit this tube first and lopped a bit of 80 x 8 for a spreader fillet/stiffening rib ... :vissla:

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then got a few more bits out .. and set 'em up ... :grin:

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after i'd extracted the 80 mm pin from the SEC and cleaned its grease off it .. :huh:

tacked it all up a bit ... :smile:

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and added a few more bits ... stiffened them up ... and set about sequentially welding it all up :vissla:

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can always tell when I'm 'at it' by the size of the slag lumps :lmao:

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spent some time de-spattering it and tidying everything away, before de-camping indoors, as it was trying hard to rain, :sad:

for a coat of shiny tish ... :thumme:

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Firwoods Bitter Choccy Brown .... great paint :thummar:

.. needs no undercoat and dries bloody fast .... matches the 'Drema's brown very well too :grin:

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managed a second coat before packing in for tea and left it sat on't bench with its mate, the adapter. :vissla:

see they're forecasting rain tomorrow afternoon ..... with an horrendous day for Sunday ... :aaargh:

see if I can give this one a try out in the a.m., before it persists down 'praps :sad:

would've loved to have MIG-ed this up ... but a tad too breezy to trust the gas shield :uupps:

... with some impossible locations to grind any porosity back out !! :sad:

**#1539** » 10:59:54, 25-01-2020

Well done and a good paint. :thummar:

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**#1540** » 18:59:26, 26-01-2020

igelkottar skrev:Well done and a good paint.

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yeh that Firwood fast drying, high build,oil and petrol resisting gloss is the bollox in the paint dept. .... used to use a lot of it in work :thummar:

wasn't the greatest of days yesterday :sad:

... weather-wise, foggy as **** and drizzling / light rain most of the day ... :sad:

really wanted to see how the other mount suited though ... so 'twas a grin and bear it day!! :vissla:

choice of two Kins yesterday morning .. :smile:

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... and opted for the 4.5 tonner ... :thumme:

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t'other one's very similar, just a bigger base and also has two base outlet ports to suit an HPX ... but only a 4t cap.

Lugged the bits out onto the bench ... :uupps:

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and discovered I was going to need a spacer plate to raise the FF QCs off the top plate :sad:

.... fortunately I had one already knocked out from a previous use ... :hurra:

will cut the odd side off it next time the band-saw is plugged in :huh:

got it all bolted up and then swung the Miller over it to couple up to its lift eye ... easy way of hanging a Kins :thummar:

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then 'twas time to plumb it all up ... easy off the bench to reach the dipper QCs :vissla:

and change over valves for the crowd circuit ... then hung it over the SEC to get a pin into it :driver:

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hangs real nice with the jaws open to nigh on meeting ..... get past the closed point and it starts to hang a tad odd, with now't in the jaws .... but'd be fine gripping summat .... :cool:

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centre hanging line is nicely in line with the rotater, hanging pin and jaw tips!

makes for another useful tool in the arsenal ... sort some 50mm pins and sleeves ... don't think what I had made a while back will work ... bit too long ... and it'll go under the VA-r too :hurra:

**#1541** » 14:56:32, 27-01-2020

I hope yer neighbour´s not tryin`something stupid now :mrgreen:

as said before, beware of a wrathful SEC :lmao:

**#1542** » 19:30:47, 15-02-2020

'evening all ...... been MIA a while
'tis a loooooooooong story :sad:

My disappearance kicked off with a routine visit to the Heath hospital on the 31st for my 6 monthly Ultra Sound scan.

started off fine at 11 o'clock .... by 11.20 I'm in excruciating agony being rushed through hospital corridors to A&E , after they'd pissed my pancreas off, with full blown, shoot me now, pancreatitis - AGAIN - puking my heart out !!!

was gone midnight 'fore I'd been shifted to a ward, bed and been given summat better than a couple of paracetamol for the pain :aaargh:

Unfortunately (but as usual) I'd gone down to Cardiff on me own ... had had to ring Pam .. tell her the bad news - like don't wait up - and get her and Vicki to come and get the car out the 4hr stay car park :huh:

several days of morphine induced stupor followed, as me pancreas calmed down a bit and I got weened back onto more conventional painkillers. Managed to persuade 'em after a week or so that I had enough of what they were giving me, at home, to 'self manage' the pain and they finally let me go

just about on top of the pancreas, for now, but me spleen has been a major problem, not getting treated for the gaucher's cells, it's been accumulating, since the 31st -
me consultant had been down to A&E to see me and said stop taking the new pills :sad:

... too many unknown factors in play :idee:

.. so been urgently awaiting a new hamster juice delivery to disperse the accumulations ... arrived tues. morning, lunchtime-ish and it'd barely touched down 'fore it was mixed and plugged into me arm - spleen is feeling better for it ! :thumme:

Have spent the last few days since i've been home trying to get me digestive system re-interested in food, little by little, ease off the tramadol cocktails, catch up on a lot of sleep - they woke you every hour down there for some bloody test / observations / whatever -- was in the CT scanner one morning at 05.00 ... even the radiologists said it was bloody early :uupps:

combine the double whammy above with the fact i've not had a fag in 15+ days and my system is doing cold turkey on that front too ...... it's been a bloody rough 2 weeks

just waiting now for the 80 quid fine/bill from Parking Eye for the car park at the hospital, to top the whole pile of shite off :aaargh:

Gonna take me months to get me back to where i was, pre U/S scan fk up :aaargh:

.... At least I could manage to keep on top of it all myself at home

getting home is the best bit ... own food to try and get excited by .... being in the local hospital in 2010 was bad enough :sad:

... the Heath's 40+ miles away and had no idea of my way around it ?? :???:

... 'least I know the local one inside out, having done a lot of work there over the years

most annoying bit is neither me or my consultant now has any idea about the new tab.s regime :vissla:

..... they'm abandoned for now, anyway :sad:

couldn't put anything up from me hospital bed - - too wacked out /off me face and no 'net on me phone .... old faithful's steam power is my only portal into the ether :vissla:

didn't expect any repeat performances of 2010, as I do me best to maintain the 'status quo' for the ol' bod and have learnt what does and how not to, piss it off
I'm pretty sure the U/S guy caused this, but until i have a chance to sit down with me consultant for a proper discussion about the 'new pills' , I can't completely rule them out ....... BUT .... I was fine/fit as, when i walked into the hospital, fifteen minutes 'fore getting pole-axed :aaargh:

**#1543** » 20:59:09, 15-02-2020

My sympathies :shake_hands:

Wish you all the happiness and well-being :thummar:

**#1544** » 22:00:22, 15-02-2020

Welcome back, Oh Druid! :buga:

**#1545** » 20:59:02, 16-02-2020

Good to hear from You. :buga:

keeping my fingers crossed, for Your swift recovery.

A friend ones told me, some thing in line with: - You need to be quit fit, to "survive" modern days Swedish health care. ..... :snow:

..... by the look of it, that might be true on the British Isles as well.... :ohnej: