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  1. difflock
    That story had me head scratching a little. . . I remain bemused and perplexed. Which may have been the intention.
  2. difflock
    Peeweet, as I heard and remembered it growing up some 50 (+) year ago.
  3. difflock
    Back to my musings. Why did the US invent, develop and fall in love with the Gradall, But we in the UK or Europe, did not, preferring the to me, far more versitile digger/excavator, courtsey of JCB. P.S. Just watched a lovely video about the Keller Brothers(from a family of 14 btw, and guessing the winter nights were and still are long and cold in Minnesota!) inventing the Bobcat skidsteer. Gibber Mutter 'n Twitch
  4. difflock
    Saw ours, when? A few days ago, Monday was it?
  5. difflock
    Well she got fresh engine oil and a new filter today, but I suspect the auto transmission needs attention. A mix of both hard shifting and slurring, despite the ATF being clear red and the fill level right. Only 126,900 miles on her and the auto trans was allegedly totally rebuilt less than 20,000 mile ago. And she is not worked hard. P.S. I bought her in the spring of 2005 with about 100,000 miles on(from memory) direct from the factory/importer(Automotive Technique. So 27,000 miles over 18 years=1500/year. Bloody hell ah cud have afforded to run a G500 instead.
  6. difflock
    I enjoy bluegrass and Larkin Poe
  7. difflock
    Well apparently I march to the beat of a different drum. But I suppose that means we need 2 drummers instead of 1 then . .
  8. difflock
    Purple.
  9. difflock
    Sun is splitting the stones, despite the shorts, and could hardly get the ice-cream ate before it melted, here on the prom at Portstewart. Seriously hot! Life sure is tough.
  10. difflock
    Lunch today down at Portstewart after a morning cruising in Der Van. Senior Management will drive me home. Ah, the joys of an automatic!
  11. difflock
    Gibbering on a bit I appreciate. But. After, and for no known reason, being a grumpy bugger on Sunday, and a stressed out sod yesterday, and NOT sleeping last night and being out and about at 04:45 this morning, etc etc. I was out again just now and spent a few captivating minutes at the pond watching(through binos) a pair of Goldfinch working over the Bullrushes for nesting material while the first Swallows flitted about in the background as the Moorhen clucked away contentedly somewhere unseen. Life is good! Bonus pic of Der G Wagen.
  12. difflock
    I am old enough to remember the matching bottles of tricloroethylene that the Council/Civil Service supplied with TippEx. Changed times indeed. P.S. We still got a small glass bottle of CS typewriter(Whale) oil from the 1950's.
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    LiquidPiston | Reinventing the Rotary Engine WWW.LIQUIDPISTON.COM LiquidPiston – Introducing the X Mini Engineliquidpiston.com LiquidPiston is crowdfunding on StartEngine and you can become an investor. Invest in LiquidPiston. Learn more about... Should also be a blinder in a motorbike come to think Stubby! Cynical 64 year old that I am I imagine the design adresses the primary issues with the Wankel engine, and if the US military are funding them(same as they are funding Cummings development of the Achates opposed diesel for their bigger stuff) they must be onto something.
  14. difflock
    Re the likelyhood of the liquid piston engine finding its way into chainsaws? With the phenomenal power to weight ratios and the viberation free/high revving nature they are advertising it should be perfectly suited to chainsaw use. Thoughts?
  15. difflock
    That comment about neat petrol and compressed air reminded me of, (and entirely at my Supervisory instruction), us using a wee 50l air compressor to attempt to suck heating oil through a pipe between the oil tank and the boiler room in a new £1,000,000.00 Community Hall, after the bollocks of a Community Group had run the tank empty and despite a full fill of oil, the pipe was somehow airlocked, or the oil would NOT gravity feed to the boiler. So a "hot urgent" instruction from my line manager resulted in this somewhat desperate measure. Anyway as I observed the aerosol of kero droplets spewing from the compressor, I quipped, "tis a good job neither of us smoke" very rapidly followed up with "suggesting" it might be a good idea to move the compressor somewhere outside of the boiler room, like well outside!, and well away from the door! P.S. I did ponder the imponderable nature of the insurance claim form that I mighta hadda needed to fill in . . .
  16. difflock
    Are you a smoker? MacPherson, while using neat petrol nicely dispersed with compressed air?
  17. difflock
    No doubt due to "environmentally friendly" considerations, or indeed, "elf an safety". I read the tin, and it is basically kerosine, with unspecifed traces of some acid. I did think, hmmmmm . . .
  18. difflock
    Van was booked for 26th May Got a test this evening up at New buildings. And!
  19. difflock
    Me grapes. And a "bull-root" of a plant (Amaryllis?) Perhaps.
  20. difflock
    Hallauagh! The mechanic was back this morning and sorted the leak. It was the "O" ring that sealed(or was supposed to seal) the "bung" in the head of the pump. And easily DIY strippable with the "special" socket easily available from various aftermarket suppliers. Too many birthdays and plastic hard and full of cracks. Which I could have sorted myself, with the benefit of pure informed hindsight of course. Now I got a ful sparel seal kit, plus a set of spare spare seals to hang on a nail somewhere!
  21. difflock
    I have fixed so much stuff with "Stixall", that it is now my "go to" answer for most everything. It also has an amazing shelf life, even after opening, so long as one pops the cap on the nozzle immediately after every use.
  22. difflock
    I would have loved an Alpine tractor to play with, simply because they are cute and "quart in a pint-pot" different, BUT! Even I had the sense to realize the clue lies in their nomenclature, and since I am in rank moss, where their low centre of gravity for mountainside stability simply means bottoming out and getting stuck when in soft ground. So, horses for courses. I would still love one though! Cos they are cute!
  23. difflock
    100,000 gets a 650,000,000 return. Not a bad RoI.
  24. difflock
    The differences in when it was both borrowed and used are both subtle and significent Eggs. Like inside working hours, outside working hours.** And some of the twisted lazy gits(and there were decent ones as well) I worked with would keep a squad waiting, on some "hot urgent" very public job, while they did their messages, or took the sceanic route or stopped for a blether. P.S. I remembered I always had my own decent twin axle trailer, but occassionally borrowed a wee babby unbraked 750kg trailer for handiness. I genuinely did my best to be honest, odd sod that I am. **One bloke was offended that I dared to remonstrate with him for using the council chainsaw, and vehicle to cut, block and deliver firewood to his home, during working hours, naturally, and of course working at the usual liesurly council pace. Cheers, mth
  25. difflock
    Not regularily either btw . . .

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