What's on your bench today?

[Adamam]

Clean the carbon off the squish band and the top of the piston and it can be removed completely. This should give another 15 - 20 psi but if measuring with a gauge, give the engine a few light turns with the starter before yanking it over hard. The mod can take out the gauge schrader valve very easily:blushing:

 

Use a high temp liguid gasket to seal the base and I personally check vac and pressure afterwards:thumbup:

 

Worth opening up the Muffler exhaust hole as well, a very easy mod to do with a dremmel:thumbup:

 

Awesome, thanks!

 

[GardenKit]

When my No2 Pozidrive went blunt I turned it into this.

 

Anybody know why?

 

 

[TGB]

Can we get back to broken machinery please.

 

I reckon if he wanted people to know, he would be standing on a corner shouting it out. I personally think it's in rather poor taste and bad manners to boot, to keep on suggesting/asking, when he's obviously so much more, than just a missing digit. I must say, he's putting up with it well.

 

I've a friend with one eye. He just gets on with life but never speaks of the reduction. All I know, is he had two in his 20s or 30s, (I've seen photos). But sometime, somehow between then and the time when I met him, he lost an eye. I would never ask him how, nor when and I know him personally. If he ever feels he wishes to tell me, he will in his own time. But I'm really not that curious. To think or describe him as a one eyed man, is entirely missing the point. He's a friend and a good decent guy; who has a life beyond his personal loss.

[GardenKit]

Can we get back to broken machinery please.

 

I reckon if he wanted people to know, he would be standing on a corner shouting it out. I personally think it's in rather poor taste and bad manners to boot, to keep on suggesting/asking, when he's obviously so much more, than just a missing digit. I must say, he's putting up with it well.

 

I've a friend with one eye. He just gets on with life but never speaks of the reduction. All I know, is he had two in his 20s or 30s, (I've seen photos). But sometime, somehow between then and the time when I met him, he lost an eye. I would never ask him how, nor when and I know him personally. If he ever feels he wishes to tell me, he will in his own time. But I'm really not that curious. To think or describe him as a one eyed man, is entirely missing the point. He's a friend and a good decent guy; who has a life beyond his personal loss.

Its quite alright with me TGB, its just a bit of fun and I am quite happy to speak of it.

 

But just so we can get back to machinery, and because no one is particularly interested anyway, this is what happened.

 

I had just re-bushed the axle pivot pins of a Salop 8 tonne trailer. Lying underneath and trying to push the 50mm pin through, it would not go. So I took the pin out and shoved my thumb in. I could feel that the holes were not in line so operated the jack with the other hand, but it was metal to metal and slipped. The trailer dropped and the nice new, sharp edged bushes slid past each other like a guillotine. Quick and painless!

 

And that was in 1985.

[GardenKit]

Its OK, I found it

[D A Tree Surgeons]

Its OK, I found it

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That was lucky

If you find another

i could do with it :sneaky2:

[GardenKit]

Haha, I will keep my eyes open, there are plenty more where that came from.

 

Not looking forward to the cold weather then Dave?

[Rich2484]

oh christ what an end to a week.

 

just as i thought i would be shutting up shop the phone didnt stop.

 

200t not oiling, blocked oil pipe.

honda mower, rats had eaten the fuel pipe.

a garden to cut and clear. and wood chip to spread around beds.

timberwolf with a fried wheel bearing, so done both sides.

ridge plates on a workshop barn roof, replaced duff ones and replaced all the foam fillers.

one transit, the dash had stopped working, so removed and sprayed with wd, all working again, common fault with ford dash boards, the circuit boards get dirty and the dials and clock stop working.

and another transit needing new gearbox, being ordered and fitted next weekend.

 

so after a good week and a half with nothing in that would pay a days wage for myself, i turned busy.

 

and now im booked up for two weeks on some tree work.

 

was really getting worried two days ago about being able to sustain myself. guess sometimes its the way it goes.

[GardenKit]

Great news Richard!

[WoodED]

my makita 9010, just general matenace,

dont suppose anyone has a spare clutch cover kicking about,,,?

mine has i chunk missing