Cloudy again. What's with the bad sleep Thistle? Can't switch off?
Run around this morning. Pray high tensile nuts and bolt for Porker#2 doesn't take too long. Perhaps that'll give me an opportunity to go pedal and rest up. Thumb is really thore. It's grey.
Morning, more dog sitting whilst decorator does his stuff. On a plus side pig based breakfast coming up before the lads go to work and college. Just ordered a basic carpenters toolkit for youngest for Xmas, OMG stupid money for reasonable quality stuff. Run later, definitely John majorish outside.
Kevlar gloves on current performance with saws. God only knows what will happen when he starts using power tools and nailguns. He cacked himself when I used a hilti gun put nails into steel and concrete recently and wouldn't go near my old 1970,s wolf circular saw. Really must get something more modern and lighter.
if he can specialise and start to work in bespoje stuff, that'll be cool.
a friend of mine wanted to be a mechanic, so wangled himself into car restoration - restoration as in "heres the original wooden frame, make me a Bentley" and off he'd go.
Horrendously, horribly talented, now does metal sculture stuff that bends my mind.
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The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
Do I have to go in the loft and replace the damn ball c.ock? On the upside, only £7.72 inc VAT from Jewsons. The mains water off is 3 feet down into what will be under water down the bottom of the garden underneath a slab that's over grown with grass...
if he can specialise and start to work in bespoje stuff, that'll be cool.
a friend of mine wanted to be a mechanic, so wangled himself into car restoration - restoration as in "heres the original wooden frame, make me a Bentley" and off he'd go.
Horrendously, horribly talented, now does metal sculture stuff that bends my mind.
We'll see what he fancies, tbh I'm not to fussed at the moment. My only advice I gave to both lads was ideally whatever you do needs to potentially sustain you for a life long career if needs be. Friends of ours kids have spent 2yrs at 6th form college then 3 yrs at uni doing various courses and one is a bar manager and the other works in a call centre. Parents are not very happy having funded them through it.
Morning folks, Busy day of wfh after a day out yesterday. Interesting trip out to the wilds of Oxfordshire, kept a wary eye out for a battered old L200 with a broken rear lamp. Place I went to was still using machine tools dating back as far as the 1930s in some cases. Said their maintenance man was always busy. They were getting some apprentices in to learn panel beating and metal finishing properly which is good to see. The lad was using my circular saw at the weekend, used to be my old man's so it's nearly as old as I am.
My workplace workshop equipment is 1950s / 60s stuff and still going strong. Better built than modern stuff. Glad the portable stuff has moved forward though. Battery drills, grinders, impact guns etc make my job a lot easier as a dam sight lighter. My circular saw is solid metal with a 12 inch blade and weighs a ton, first time I used it I was almost taken along for a ride. Suspect that L200 maybe hiding in the corner of a carpark somewhere.
Pinno surely you have a stopcock in the house that would save the grope in the ground.
This is where a problem lies...
There is but it isn't shutting off very well. When I did the plumbing during the renovation, I put check valves everywhere. A man plumber bloke put a very large fully insulated 'immersion' tank in for me. I used him because the acid water here can cause problems and therefore the Yorkshire fittings needed to be A1. I can do them but wasn't taking any chances. The extra mass of the large tank really assists in that when I use the wet back log burner, it regulates the water to the radiators better than a small one, retains it's heat to the extent that within 1 hour of lighting the log burner (lit within 12 hours), it's hot again and the pump kicks on via the pipe stat. I asked him specifically to change the in line stop c.ock for me to a lever type as access would be made difficult after installation of the tank. Plus it is on old 1" piping.
Left him to it, came back and asked and he said he had 'forgotten'. Cheers, thanks.
However, Scottish water installed (at their expense) a new, modern shut of valve that does not need the standard tool and is actually very easy to operate. What I should do is periodically keep the (small) slab free of grass.
My workplace workshop equipment is 1950s / 60s stuff and still going strong. Better built than modern stuff.
Very much so, the plates screwed on the side of them with "for spares call London 123" or something made me laugh. Also the number of tools made by the men on the factory floor 50 odd years ago to make a job easier was impressive. Dead right about battery drills and the like, they do make life a lot easier. I've got an old metal bodied Black & Decker drill in the garage that is definitely older than me. I never use it, but can't quite bring myself to throw it out.
My workplace workshop equipment is 1950s / 60s stuff and still going strong. Better built than modern stuff.
Very much so, the plates screwed on the side of them with "for spares call London 123" or something made me laugh. Also the number of tools made by the men on the factory floor 50 odd years ago to make a job easier was impressive. Dead right about battery drills and the like, they do make life a lot easier. I've got an old metal bodied Black & Decker drill in the garage that is definitely older than me. I never use it, but can't quite bring myself to throw it out.
Yeah got one of those in the tool cupboard too.
When my father died and we had to fairly quickly clear out their house for sale, I had to get rid of a bunch of his old workshop tools as I'd nowhere to store them here and they'd have cost a fortune to ship home. Had a bandsaw that was ancient, weighed a ton, but worked superbly. Wish I could have kept that!
Highlight of today: a decent ride on the turbo, first in a while that's worked properly. Still need to fettle shifting a little, and find a BB I can use to swap cranks, but happy to get a bit of effort in for once.
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First battery drill I ever saw was ex MOD metal gut buster twin handled affair that ran off a truck battery and long extension lead. Very slow but would drill through anything, only downside was if it snagged you went for a ride until the trigger was released.
...to the wilds of Oxfordshire, kept a wary eye out for a battered old L200 with a broken rear lamp...
Still old and rel battered, in keeping with its owner, but no longer broken rear lamp. Turned out to be a 5 minute job, or 10 if you count scrabbling about to retrieve the inevitable dropped nut (don't drop it, don't... oh fxxx) to replace the unit. Good Mitsubishi design.
Big long telescopic magnet thingy. I have one with torch on the end. Useless for Stainless steel. That's where you need 6 big Jocks to pick the car up and flip it over.
Pinno's nut retrieval job Jackanory number #362
Mate calls me to say he cannot start his Renault 5. Battery was good, all fuses were good. No sound of solenoid. Source exchange starter. Starter "that's a 5 min job"... Find out that you had to remove inlet manifold, exhaust manifold and an engine to chassis brace to get access. Some models, you could go underneath. Not this one. And there is was: earth strap not connected. Re-attach earth strap, engine brace and replace exhaust manifold. In the process of putting the air cleaner back on, dropped a nut right into the carb... heard it drop down into the manifold... Take manifold off and very carefully retrieve the nut. Thankfully, it didn't go any further.
Ball c.ock job done but only after porky mate called me. He mashed his rear mech. Chain was knotted around the rear dropout and hanger was snapped. Frame badly scratched. Oops. I told him it was dodgy. Couldn't quite get it to index properly and the upper jockey wheel had zero play which suggests it was swapped out for some inexplicable reason before sale. Now finished Brie and Salad baguette, must go tinker on Porker#1.
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Hounds, work stuff and then a run (basically pub avoidance)
kicking heels until making a decison of whether to send a poorly bambina to school - not the 'Rona just s cracking cold/snuffles/sneezes thang.
Apart from that, time for coffee until my brain starts to function.
possibly a hint of brightness, nippier
ride, cafes, chat with land of sands, chat with land of burgers, perhaps glue another tub, bubbly
Oh, maybe not appropriate in this case.
man cgarage in Kent.Run around this morning. Pray high tensile nuts and bolt for Porker#2 doesn't take too long. Perhaps that'll give me an opportunity to go pedal and rest up. Thumb is really thore.
It's grey.
hound is snoozing/farting in his pit, will have a protein shake (no euphimism) and weights sesh.
ditchvalley in soggy, damp Welshland.ffs.
if he can specialise and start to work in bespoje stuff, that'll be cool.
a friend of mine wanted to be a mechanic, so wangled himself into car restoration - restoration as in "heres the original wooden frame, make me a Bentley" and off he'd go.
Horrendously, horribly talented, now does metal sculture stuff that bends my mind.
On the upside, only £7.72 inc VAT from Jewsons.
The mains water off is 3 feet down into what will be under water down the bottom of the garden underneath a slab that's over grown with grass...
Busy day of wfh after a day out yesterday. Interesting trip out to the wilds of Oxfordshire, kept a wary eye out for a battered old L200 with a broken rear lamp. Place I went to was still using machine tools dating back as far as the 1930s in some cases. Said their maintenance man was always busy. They were getting some apprentices in to learn panel beating and metal finishing properly which is good to see.
The lad was using my circular saw at the weekend, used to be my old man's so it's nearly as old as I am.
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I'll go to the pub later to compensate.
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Suspect that L200 maybe hiding in the corner of a carpark somewhere.
There is but it isn't shutting off very well. When I did the plumbing during the renovation, I put check valves everywhere.
A man plumber bloke put a very large fully insulated 'immersion' tank in for me. I used him because the acid water here can cause problems and therefore the Yorkshire fittings needed to be A1. I can do them but wasn't taking any chances. The extra mass of the large tank really assists in that when I use the wet back log burner, it regulates the water to the radiators better than a small one, retains it's heat to the extent that within 1 hour of lighting the log burner (lit within 12 hours), it's hot again and the pump kicks on via the pipe stat.
I asked him specifically to change the in line stop c.ock for me to a lever type as access would be made difficult after installation of the tank. Plus it is on old 1" piping.
Left him to it, came back and asked and he said he had 'forgotten'. Cheers, thanks.
However, Scottish water installed (at their expense) a new, modern shut of valve that does not need the standard tool and is actually very easy to operate.
What I should do is periodically keep the (small) slab free of grass.
Dead right about battery drills and the like, they do make life a lot easier. I've got an old metal bodied Black & Decker drill in the garage that is definitely older than me. I never use it, but can't quite bring myself to throw it out.
Marin Nail Trail
Cotic Solaris
When my father died and we had to fairly quickly clear out their house for sale, I had to get rid of a bunch of his old workshop tools as I'd nowhere to store them here and they'd have cost a fortune to ship home. Had a bandsaw that was ancient, weighed a ton, but worked superbly. Wish I could have kept that!
Highlight of today: a decent ride on the turbo, first in a while that's worked properly. Still need to fettle shifting a little, and find a BB I can use to swap cranks, but happy to get a bit of effort in for once.
Useless for Stainless steel. That's where you need 6 big Jocks to pick the car up and flip it over.
Pinno's nut retrieval job Jackanory number #362
Mate calls me to say he cannot start his Renault 5.
Battery was good, all fuses were good. No sound of solenoid.
Source exchange starter. Starter "that's a 5 min job"...
Find out that you had to remove inlet manifold, exhaust manifold and an engine to chassis brace to get access. Some models, you could go underneath. Not this one.
And there is was: earth strap not connected.
Re-attach earth strap, engine brace and replace exhaust manifold. In the process of putting the air cleaner back on, dropped a nut right into the carb... heard it drop down into the manifold...
Take manifold off and very carefully retrieve the nut.
Thankfully, it didn't go any further.
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Ball c.ock job done but only after porky mate called me.
He mashed his rear mech. Chain was knotted around the rear dropout and hanger was snapped. Frame badly scratched. Oops.
I told him it was dodgy. Couldn't quite get it to index properly and the upper jockey wheel had zero play which suggests it was swapped out for some inexplicable reason before sale.
Now finished Brie and Salad baguette, must go tinker on Porker#1.