Time for Tuesday
thistle_
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'Ning
Not slept much again 🙁
WFW
Maybe yoga later
Not slept much again 🙁
WFW
Maybe yoga later
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Thistle - rubbish re sleep
Hounds, work stuff and then a run (basically pub avoidance)0 -
Ciao
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..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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'ning
possibly a hint of brightness, nippier
ride, cafes, chat with land of sands, chat with land of burgers, perhaps glue another tub, bubbly
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0 -
I think you should send her to the new rehabilitation
man cgarage in Kent.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Actually no, Stevo is a bit of a perv. Poor Bambina.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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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.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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did you get him a huge box of Hello Kittys as well for when the chisel slips?.
The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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tbh, its blimmin' fair play he's starting in a trade - best of to him..
The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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he's made - in my eyes - a really good choice.
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..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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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...seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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.0 -
Does not compute, TLW needs rebooting.tlw1 said:... and then a run (basically pub avoidance)
I'll go to the pub later to compensate.
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This is where a problem lies...oxoman said:Pinno surely you have a stopcock in the house that would save the grope in the ground.
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.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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.oxoman said:My workplace workshop equipment is 1950s / 60s stuff and still going strong. Better built than modern stuff.
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.
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Yeah got one of those in the tool cupboard too.veronese68 said:
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.oxoman said:My workplace workshop equipment is 1950s / 60s stuff and still going strong. Better built than modern stuff.
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.
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.
Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS0 -
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.veronese68 said:...to the wilds of Oxfordshire, kept a wary eye out for a battered old L200 with a broken rear lamp...
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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.
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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.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
just picked up a plant. time to shooooooooom home to bambini wgo i left 45 mins ago eating, essentially, a whole pig's worth of bacon and sausages with about 9 eggs..
The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Busy day, no tools involved but plenty work and pain in the neck stuff from the Kingdom of Far Far Away. Fitted in a trip to the tip at lunchtime, so the garage is now largely cr@p free and quite presentable."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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I posted in the wrong day so for continuity:
The view from our ensuite is probably the best in the house, looks right over the Pennines.
Worky stuff, need a new mag drill etc etc etc.
Pulled pork wraps for dinner, pork is currently in the slow cooker bubbling away. OmnomnomnomAdvocate of disc brakes.0 -
Grrrr…. Cycled in to work today but the uncomfortable itch in my left eye seems to have developed into a full blown eye infection. Left work early to ride home squinting through 1 1/4 eyes. Popped into chemist and they gave me some greasy eye ointment. So now only one good eye and the other is like some psychedelic dreamscape where everything is a blur of colour. Bugger!
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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As an aside, the Hound has decided that enough is enough. No one is to annoy him any more or he's opening a can of ass whuppings.....
.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Some proper Peter Ricks out on the road tonight. Obviously something important on the TV. Anyhow, more reading today but did manage a nice kip in the office. Not sure if this should go in commuting chat.0
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i want christine noonan with her sten mark iiioxoman said:I want one and I don't mean the hound. Would happily suffer the consequences of clearing the local park of oxygen stealing pond scum with that. Can't kick anymore than the old GPMG of the 60/70s did. Used to get to fire them and the old Lee Enfield when in the cadets in the 80s.
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0
