WTF put such a small head on the bolt is beyond me .... self tightening in use and takes some undoing the 14mm AF is now 13mm AF ... a nice tight 13mm .. next time the mig is 'in play', it's getting a 20mm nut welded onto it for some 'proper' purchase !!!
had Alex here all afternoon with his bed he's building for his truck ... and a nice job he's making of it too, but without a 'Druid style' bench to build on, the heat had got the better of the main runners and it was in need of a little 'magic' to normalise it and get the curves out of it .......
nice and flat ..... this is gonna look the bollox, once completed ..... wheel arches were to follow sunday !!
some may have noticed the genny has spun through 90 deg.s and a bit more out the way of the bench .... Picked it up with the dynamometer this afters ...... anyone care to hazard a guess on the weight .... with a full tank of fuel (circa 300 litres)??
Also allowed me to fully open the front door, so's it can get the cleaning treatment, like the rest of it ...
£18,547 - 4,800 hrs - '99 ...... Not a dear m/c IMHDO and very probably negotiable - looks well cared for. Same grab as I had with mine - Hydrema's own
And before anyone asks ....... the dash is even less legible than mine, for identifying the 'mystery switch'
Only down side is it's 900 miles away (from me) - in Germany !!!!
If it's got tracks, wheels, t*ts, or an engine, at some point it's gonna give you trouble!!
the cable glands on the tops are purely temporary, to keep the moisture out, 'til I can get to town for some blanking caps. connections are all internal, into the back of the sockets .... when I get a few more spare minutes to get some 'lectrical spaghetti between them and the bus bars in the cabinet
and that was about as much as I got done last week
If it's got tracks, wheels, t*ts, or an engine, at some point it's gonna give you trouble!!
been keeping an eye on these three and meaning to do this for a while ...... before we have another Plantohyd fountain to contend with. So ripped off the three original hoses and headed for Raglan, yesterday afternoon .... came back with these ..
took some wrestling back on and into the exact alignment I wanted, together with the 'rotate/aux' line, which was a lot easier --- straighter and smaller!!
also took the opportunity whilst I was 'well oiled' to slack off a few others and tweak them all into a better aligment, instead of going sideways when she's stretched out, they now all sit a lot more neatly .....
will be nice not to worry about stressing these hoses, for fear of them spilling their guts everywhere. .... or dropping whatever is on me forks !!!!
Dropped Clara, mummy and granny at the garden centre, en route, before spending an hour with the lads in Raglan, sorting these out .... never seen them sooooo busy. Been like it for two months apparently.
Bit of a chat with Leigh the owner whilst I waited for someone to put these together ... tells me that Fuchs have stopped doing Plantohyd, by the barrel ... 25s only now ... he also gave me some spec sheets for a Morris's equivalent oil which very slightly exceeds the Fuchs' spec -- just. Morris's tech director assures us that it is permissible to mix the two and I have it in writing, by email. Leigh also said that it's no wonder it's such a dear oil .... it's the best spec. there is in Bio-oil ... now't better. Known Leigh a long time and trust his info. - - it's his game !!
it's been a 'strange' sort of week so far .... My oldest and one of my closest friends was killed Sunday morning, attempting/practicing an emergency landing, near to his gliding club, along with a friend of his, in the club's powered glider. No one knows who was at the controls, and we may never know ?? News was a bit of a shock Sunday night and my heart just hasn't been in much this week. We've been friends since we started school together, 56 years ago and sort of instantly bonded !!
Never imagined having to go see his wife, in this sort of circumstance .... there are no words you can offer, of any real meaning He was such a nice bloke
I've left it a couple of days, as she had enough to contend with, with plod, air crash investigators and all of her family, but was glad to see me, this afters.
so,as I say not done a great deal these last couple of days ... aside from the usual Clara care, me hoses, which needed doing and kept me 'occupied' and I spent a few hours this morning filling Alex's crates and a.n.other/the last of me vented bags, with yon pile.
enough left for another crate, which Alex has said he has for me .... then I think we have enough for a winter or three !! ....... plus there's a large oak yet to come down and be dealt with !!
If it's got tracks, wheels, t*ts, or an engine, at some point it's gonna give you trouble!!
Well, I think you have done a great deal, although all not practical matters!! Yer visit to yer friends wife, That is doing a lot! Also dealing with yer own thoughts and grief
Also you give a lot to Clara. You give her a warm friendship, teach her things that will give her a wide perspective in the future, well... You done a good job, with a wide range of tasks!!
magirus skrev:Well, I think you have done a great deal, although all not practical matters!! Yer visit to yer friends wife, That is doing a lot! Also dealing with yer own thoughts and grief
Also you give a lot to Clara. You give her a warm friendship, teach her things that will give her a wide perspective in the future, well... You done a good job, with a wide range of tasks!!
thank you Mags ..... been a difficult couple of days, with more to come yet
The little un has just arrived, for another day's adventures, so that will keep me occupied Mart's death was totally out of the blue and a real shock ... at least when people are ill you're prepared .... haven't lost anyone through an accident in a long time, plenty through illness, but must be 25 years since fate took anyone close to me.
If it's got tracks, wheels, t*ts, or an engine, at some point it's gonna give you trouble!!
magirus skrev:Well, when it rains, it falls!! Happy you can write about it! For me it kinda helps ease the "pain inside" to hack a word or two.
Keep up, I´m watching this space!!
totally agree Mags .... as the old saying goes ... "problems/troubles shared are problems/troubles halved" and you have time to compose your thoughts, unlike in verbal conversation
As you say ..... "It doesn't rain, but it pours" .... struggling to get my head around never seeing the ol' bugger again
jörgen.ottosson skrev:If that´s "not much" ....I don´t know what is....
Thanks Jörgen ... doesn't seem a great deal done, but suppose it is ..... plus everything else
Spent the evening, after Clara went, sat wiring the sockets on the genny and contemplating mortality, times gone by, etc. .... got beaten by the light - - just ... takes time to get 3 ph. wiring right .... some pix tomorrow
and thank you guys for your words of support, etc. ..... I am not 'in' the greatest of places at the moment
If it's got tracks, wheels, t*ts, or an engine, at some point it's gonna give you trouble!!
Cat-Flap - you can guess how he got his name - is also very partial to Pam's strawberries, which are all ripening nicely, in one of her veggie growing boxes. She is going to need an armoured cover next year to keep Cat-Flap AND his mates out of there!!!!!
'evening all ..... can't believe it's two weeks since i was last in here ... not enough hours in a day !!
catch up time again then ....
Ber rrrrrrt is a bit of a waif and stray ... been here for months .... I don't think he can fly ... never seen him airborne!! Cat-Flap and his mates are just a PITA ...... seem to be a hell of a lot of squirrels about this year but everything has a place in the greater scheme of things ..... I haven't shot anything in a very long time !!
The older you get, the more benevolent one becomes towards the wildlife .... flies, wappys and hornets are fair game ... everything else gets left to their own devices ... as long as they'm not in the strawberry bed
been looking for a new belt grinder for months .... single phase are few and far between, but with the advent of 3ph .. options have broadened
had a couple of Grimax ones in the workshop and were used all day, everyday.
Selmach (Selkent that was) have stopped doing the Grimax and now do Kepp .. essentially the same Swedish machine and thought I was gonna have to bite the bullet and fork out the 1200 quid plus Vodka & Tonic for one .....
spoke to the guy and he told me it was 2017 ... his dad had bought it for his ali fab workshop and promptly died .. complete, but off the stand for ease of storage and a load of belts with it (I do have a few spares too)
deal done for £550 palletised and it was on its way with Pallex
anyone who's never used one ... little vid below
one of my most missed tools
it's some grinder with a very big 'G' ... massive material removal rates .... multiple expletives required to describe just how good they are
Hugh Bushnell from Selkent spent months trying to flog me one, many years ago. he turned up at my workshop one day with one in the boot of his Merc. I spent about 30-40 seconds trying it .... and ordered two ...
well actually a second one .... he weren't having that one back to go home with
whilst one was 1/2 worn second had a new belt ... when the new one got to half , t'other was ready for a new one ...... etc., etc. .... worked out well. belt'd average 3-4 months hard use, not dear and pretty tough lil' sods. never snapped one in a lot of years use. the secret to not wrecking them is the soft serrated rubber front wheel .... allows enough flexibility not the tear the belts.
Anyone on here has one ??? ... .. they'll tell you how ****ing good they really are!!!
when you've used one ..... you think of ways to use it, rather than a hand held 5 or 9" ... the ease of material removal is phenomenal ..
Bloody good for sharpening three an' a half inch drills too
American outfit called Flex used to do a hand-held 2" version ... failed to find anyone selling them in the UK and tried to import a couple from Europe. they unfortunately stopped selling into the Eu, before I could get my hands on a few. No longer make a dedicated unit for flat sheet work, with the serated rubber wheel .. pipe work only ... and last time I looked were over 600 quid each
this is a combination of the pipe and flat panel work design ... no flat platten to support the belt
went to her favorite 'scoffery', which does lots of gluten free choices ... including a serious selection of deserts .. GF ones !! this was new on the menu
said if she was going to eat that amount of cream .... she might as well get down on the floor and let me give her gall bladder a good kicking now ... might not hurt quite so much later ..... LOL ... or at least not appear to !!
and that's not a trick of the camera's lens ..... it was THAT big ....... like a rabbit in the headlights
remarkably ..... after yet another meal at 7.30 that evening .... she was fine Pam did however admit that evening, that she did not think she was going to see off lunch time's desert !!!!
the belt grinder had top wait 'til tomorrow ... was gonna be a day to myself .. sort of !!
my favorite grinding belts Zirconia alumina ..... 36 grit .... rips the sh1t out o' plate and lasts for ever ..... almost. you would not want a finger anywhere near the business end when running. that's almost certainly the grit and medium in that video. they'm a tad rough on the 'dannys', installing 'em .... what you'd call 'non-slip grip'
me couple of spares, I kept Originalets URL: http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/my%20bucket%202/WP_20180621_13_13_43_Pro_zpsoju3ps5g.jpg
and five spares that arrived with the Kepp ..... pity they were 60 grits Originalets URL: http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/my%20bucket%202/WP_20180621_13_39_31_Pro_zpswyfwiho0.jpg
If it's got tracks, wheels, t*ts, or an engine, at some point it's gonna give you trouble!!